120 gallon journal - picture Feb 27

[Skimmerking]

8 t-5's are quite bright and intense too. Doug had 4 over his 75 and man it was bright ,but more intense then anything. I think it was bleaching his hydro and some other frags he had. I think that after that he took it down and ran just 1 set of t-5's not sure on what he's going to run now.

[kwirky]

I have to say, I've grown quite impatient


i'm not running all the lights right now. I just turned 'em all on for the photo

put in 70 lbs of liverock from Gold's. Moved my existing 20 lbs from my nano. 90 lbs all together. Moved my whopping 4 frags into the tank, along with my fairy grammy. He spent the night creeping over the tank from cave to cave, till he found the real cool cave piece he bought. decided on his new home.

I'm running just the actinics, I removed about 75% of the sand, so it's just a fine, 1/4" layer on the bottom (unlike in the picture).

The toadstools should be fine halfway down the tank, with the half the lights on, right? I don't think they'll bleach when I turn the rest of the lights on, either, because it'll be gradual. The big tank's going to be a better place for them than the nano, even with half the tank's lights on. The toadsool's in medium-heavy water flow, and the xenia's in medium flow with some nice looking turbulence.

Now as for the echinophyllia (chalice), anyone know what kind of flow requirements it has? Hard to find much information on it. I placed it on the far right, off by it'self, because I know it'll get sweeper tentacles eventually, and I placed it in a way that I hope it will begin plating.

I have to figure out how to get the toadstool plugs out of the ugly clumps of epoxy though. Also, I didn't plan on having them in a tank bigger than the nano, so now they're too close together for how large I have decided them to grow.

Tested the water paramaters again, and again ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphates are undetectable. They're aquarium pharmeceuticals testkits though. I think I'm going to break down and get a salifert nitrate kit soon.edited next day. post was WAY too long

[kwirky]

I wrote a review for the lighting fixture. Gave it a 4.5 out of 5. It's so intense you can't even look at it straight on
I'm wondering what it would look like overdriven with Icecap ballasts?

I hope some company comes out with VHO T5's. Then I think the only advantage to MH lighting would be the glitter lines (which are so dang cool).

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=26819

[kwirky]

I'm acclimating a sea hare, a turbo snail, and 4 cone snails as we speak. It's a slow drip acclimation in a styrofoam cooler. I plan to do the dripping for 2 hours, since I don't want to lose this sea hare. They're sometimes hard to find.

[Joe Reefer]

What does the pipe on the right 3/4 the way up do? Is it a return.
BTW I like your aquascape, looks awesome.

[kwirky]

Originally Posted by Joe Reefer

What does the pipe on the right 3/4 the way up do? Is it a return.
BTW I like your aquascape, looks awesome.

Yeah, it's a return. I would like to put an inductor on it, but I've been doing research on inductors first. Various sized inductors require various PSI's for optimal efficiency. And I would like to know if the backpressure caused by the inductor would be safe on the mag pump.

And thanks for the comment on the aquascape. It's not as much rock as I would like, and I'll have to buy/cure some more later, but it's good for now. Only problem is it's covered in hair algae at ATM. I'm so impatient heh.

[Joe Reefer]

Is there a check valve on it?

[kwirky]

yeah, there's a check valve, and I have the backup that the output is only 3/4 of the way up. I tested it, before installing the valve, and I have room in my sump for the backflow from the display tank in case the check valve fails.

the check valve's spring is stainless steel, but I'm a little nervous still having the metal in the tank... I was thinking of removing the valve at some point, and only having the empty space in the sump as backup.

[albert_dao]

If your returns are high enough, or have anti siphon holes drilled in them, you should be fine.

[kwirky]

I finally got around to setting up the moonlight. It's a cold cathode light, and I decided to run it on the side of the tank, since it gives a different look than the usual middle of the tank.

I posted how I made it in the DIY section http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=27340