435 gallon in wall see through easy sps

[TChristman]

So you are runnning a total of 4 of the Evolution fixtures? Are they the 20k or 14K? It seems to provide more than adequate lighting. I am building a tank with the same dimensions and the thing that I am debating most is the lighting. I have looked at the Evolution lights several times. I actually run halides now and was debating going to T5 because of the great color but this thread may be pushing me back towards leds. Why is it so dang hard to pick lighting?

 

[bullitr]

its like 22 k
if you decided to go with LEDS get the evolution 200 gen 3 its worth the price

 

[bullitr]

iPhone fish picture of the main tank before I drain it next week so I can go fallow for few months

 

[bullitr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaMGhLRvK8U

 

[bullitr]

my almost empty MAIN tank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os-gEq8stso

 

[bullitr]

Due to severe kidney stone attack, my 135 gallon was not setup on time and it causes the ammonia spike on the QT so I transfer all the fish to the main display and loses the maculosus ,clown and powder brown tang

On a good news

Hopefully today it will be up and running

 

[bullitr]

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[bullitr]

because of the design and the location of the panel my meter spinning backwards @ 0800 this morning

Ryan( real good solar ) told me few months ago that we are the last few customer to get a higher rebate since SCE is reducing their rebate due to high demands...

 

[caliking]

you lucky reefer. =) Email me the cost of that setup. I would just need something to power my reef tank. You know your like my big brother in the reef game. :beer:

 

[bullitr]

you lucky reefer. =) Email me the cost of that setup. I would just need something to power my reef tank. You know your like my big brother in the reef game. :beer:

Its not that expensive than most people think
It will pay for itself in less than 5 years even if you just make the monthly payments
Go back to socal forum ...hehehe

 

[bullitr]

Hopefully My friend can snag me a lot of shrimp so my lone tang in the tank have something to clean him and some movement in the tank( I will call the yellow tang Bruce Willis die hard)
I will just catch all my fish from the main Tank at the when I get back from vacation in June .So My 135 gallon will be empty until then.

I will not have triggers anymore since I am keeping lots of large cleaner shrimp on the tank even though I might not need them but it's great for insurances.The UV will be running 24/7 and use lots of carbon to make sure that the interceptor is totally out of the system from few months ago when alll hell break lose and starting to kill all of my fish.
So it I will take my time and prepare well.
I will just have 9 large fish(someone please hit me in the head if I get more)
The list
queen
Asfur
Emperor

Tangs
Yellow
Purple
Blue
Achilles
Male Blonde Naso

I will have 10 wrasse including Pee wee the Harlequin tusk and will get more sugar size sand to make the other wrasses happy.
6 black and white clowns for my anemones

I have 6 months to prepare and hopefully will have fishes on my tank by October.

 

[bullitr]

since i dont have fishes to look at
here is some of the corals that i brought but from the dead or brown
this was the bright red mille with green and the bonsai

My butchered picture and unfortunately I don't have the macrolens picture
This is bright red and green in person

This bright blue body and neon green polyps and the tips are bright blue instead of the white on the picture

This Aussie acro have awesome green to it and my POP is bright purple with blue tips and green base but i cant take a decent picture.

Jeffs brown birdsnest is now neon green with purple polyps but obviously can be seen in this picture

Bonsai? It used to be dead brown now maroonish with neon green polyps

 

[bullitr]

my favorite corals

 

[attaboy]

What is your secret to keeping the acrylic so clean? What do you use and how often?

 

[bullitr]

I use magnet but it's not so good So every 2 weeks I use a acrylic pads
Still I scratch the heck out of it

 

[bullitr]

i think my friend will trade my a nice angel for it
it keeps on moving around but i got a good shot of him today he is tiny only 3"-4" but very very pretty I wish my photoskills are better and he is still hiding under a rock

believe it or not It' so much brighter in person

 

[bullitr]

after a long stuggle i finally caught the last chromis but i have 2 casualty
my large colony of garf bonsai is STN but i manage to save some frags.
one of my wild colonies is on the edge hopefully it survive.

also my rocks have hair algae for the first time so i start dosing vinegar 4 days ago...

wish me luck!

 

[qwuintus]

This is definitely a dream setup! Nice tank man.

 

[xinumaster]

Great tank.

 

[elvis142]

hello, i have been following your thread for a while. nice tank, too bad about the ick! your dosing vineger for the hair algae? how does that help?

thanks,
john

after a long stuggle i finally caught the last chromis but i have 2 casualty
my large colony of garf bonsai is STN but i manage to save some frags.
one of my wild colonies is on the edge hopefully it survive.

also my rocks have hair algae for the first time so i start dosing vinegar 4 days ago...

wish me luck!