Hi Gary, how is the married life now? Any kids yet??

I am a Richmond lifer bro, who said I lived in bby?

Let me know when you're free meet for beers!

I've got a 4 month old boy now! Oh I saw your comment about a condo in Burnaby. Yeah buddy lets catch up, I'll text u ;)


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It's been awhile since I last updated, I found it hard dripping alk in daily and keeping the parameters in check. I hooked up a jebao doser, it was simple to calibrate and input even tho there was a lot of button pushing. I've been testing my alk every 2-3 days to make sure I am dosing enough.

As of yesterday my results are...

Alk 6.8
Ca 410
Mg 1320

I have also been feeding my tank 4 times a day.... as I mentioned before my tank is on a reverse light cycle from 4pm till 5am it gives me time to achieve the amount of feeding I have set in place. At 430-5pm my tank gets nori, at 8-10pm pellets then before bed usually between 12-2 home made food which is rich in secret ingriedients like the papone mixture. If you notice that's only 3 feeding the last one is done during the day at around 12pm when the tank is asleep, sps and Lps have all feeders out I will feed the home made food with reef roids 3 times a week, the other days gets reef roids coral food and phyto gold s and zoo plankton, amino, koral kolor, iodion and brine. I believe this feeding regimen will achieve a healthy fish and coral base also help boost life in the rocks.

I have to test my nitrate and phosphate levels as it's been 3 weeks since I last tested which the results were very low.

I will also be adding a brightwells bio brick soon as I was originally going to do siporax but with the lack of space in my sump a couple bricks may be the best alternative.

I added a few berghia to take care of nusiance aptaisia which they have almost irradiated in less than 3 days.

I added a clam last week, while it's not as nice as the clams I have owned in the past clams are harder and harder to find these days, also they come with a hefty price tag so owning one is better than none.

My tank is currently full of frags as I've been busy collecting, I will be stopping soon I hope....😜

Here are some pics of my tank taken yesterday.

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...y/IMG_3052.jpg

Got some add ons to my lighting rig, I've added 2 A360 tuna blue and what a difference it's made to the corals, all the Lps and sps just perked up, even the clams.

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...y/IMG_3161.jpgc

jesus thats a lot of lights. what your hydro bill like? lol

That's a pimp set up Chris!

Looking good bud, I'll not regret the kessils, great LED


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I don't know what my hydro bill is, but considering my tank is in my garage and cooler this time of year my heaters probably add to the consumption... the mh is on 6hrs@ 400w the kessils are running a max of 40% now so that's about 40w per unit. Led and t5 run for 7hrs at 106w.

Colour is amazing.

Thanks Shao and Galizeo, definately worth the money for these Kessils love the look of the blue led shimmer and coverage.

Looking good Chris, getting packed as usual! lol

Wow, that's a lot of light, did the Achilles tang get a new yellow paint? :biggrin: