imisky's 30g custom tank

[imisky]

heres a picture of the bleached bali tri color but im sure it'll come back in no time as the colors are somewhat still there.


and the FTS:

[wisesam]

Hopefully the tri-color will get better soon.
Do you know what caused the bleach?

[imisky]

Originally Posted by wisesam

Hopefully the tri-color will get better soon.
Do you know what caused the bleach?

most likely my hands it was out of water for at least a good 45mins with me holding it and snaping it into pieces prior to that it was perfectly fine ii just moved it so i can give the pink lemonade more space togrow

[imisky]

a little update but not much changed.
recently picked up a yellow candy stripe hogfish so far its been playing nice with the fairy wrasse and eating well. Added a geometric pygmy hawk to the tank thanks to oceanics soft opening and also got a blue polyp digitata......now i have a problem haha...i have no room

hm...moved the rock work around a little so that the corals have JUST a little bit more room to grow maybe a cm or two for a few selected corals, and lowered the millipora in the center as it was getting a little top heavy and constantly falling over. Now its got more room to grow.

heres some photos FTS and the hogfish, the pygmy hawk is still shy but should be out once it gets used to my feeding schedule, we'll see.

[imisky]

so since the olympics is here and all the universities in the GVRD is close i have alot of spare time to kill so i am finding things to do. I havent had moonlights for a while on my tanks but started to miss it a little and so i started planning this project a few weeks ago thinking how i want this to be as natural looking as possible and decided i didnt want blue LEDs instead id go with white ones to replicate what the corals would be exposed to in nature. With all the planning done (took i think 15mins) i went out and bought all the parts and went to town and got it all finished today.

So.. Parts

3x 1/4W white LEDs
1x old cellphone charger with 5.5V and 550ma output
1x acrylic tubing i think its 1" thick
3x daily contact lens casing (for the reflectors that i dont think does anything)

total price? i think its less then $5 if you count out the contact casing that you can keep.

I forgot to take progress photos but i think a project like this shouldnt be too hard. I chained up the LEDs in series so i could avoid the use of resistors, the LEDs are a little underdriven but thats fine for this project as i wanted to keep things dim as the tank is in my room. Cut the acrylic tubing a little longer (1mm) than the 2 MHs beside it and the pressure from the pendents keep the moonlight tubing held pretty well.

heres some pictures.




and what the tank looks like: (in real life its about 10x dimmer)

[JDigital]

Tank is looking awesome! Really starting to fill in for ya!

[imisky]

ya its definitely starting to fill in nicely and some corals are starting to get pretty close to each other. Ive started to take an approach where i snip the tip of my frags that havent grown at all for a while and hoping that it will give them another growth spurt. So far i cant tell if its working or not but i do see multiple branches forming from where snipped them.