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wow your tank is incredible. definitely one of the best I've ever seen. I love what you did with the place.
Jims reef in a barn
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fullmonti
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Might I ask what type of paint you used for the fish room? Is it a very high gloss white?[/QUOTE]
It is semi-gloss porch paint. It has worked pretty well, I also painted inside the hood with same paint. If I could do it again I would use epoxy paint, the porch paint is not holding up well in the hood near the top of the tank. I'm going to have to do something where the hood meets the tank. It's all built in so it wont be a easy fix.
Thanks all
Jim
It is semi-gloss porch paint. It has worked pretty well, I also painted inside the hood with same paint. If I could do it again I would use epoxy paint, the porch paint is not holding up well in the hood near the top of the tank. I'm going to have to do something where the hood meets the tank. It's all built in so it wont be a easy fix.
Thanks all
Jim
fullmonti
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more pix
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The other side FTS
Kitchen side showing lights
Closeup of light rack, with new blue LEDs
End view FTS (have you noticed if you shoot through the glass at an angle the pic is never quite sharp)?
Now current fish room pix. I have to admit I thought I was fairly neat, but seeing these pix I realized my fish room (wiring) looks like a bucket of worms.
RODI, deep sink & mixing area first.
Calcium reactor, controllers, skimmer, sump, & Litermeter III I use for ATO, You can see just above the sump I have a ozone system too. Also the calcium reactor has a second chamber (that way it puts out stronger effluent) without it all the coral sucked more calcium out than a normal reactor could keep up with.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1953276
The round tank is my 3gal vase that temporarily has two small mantis shrimp in it. the rectangular tank has been a fug,frag tank, NPS tank & right now I'm trying to get rid of the aptasia outbreak from the filter feeders.
Inback of the rectangular tank is a 5gal long skinny acrylic tank I made for a fug/pod farm. It drains into the 180, hopefully keeping the pod population up.
The overflow end of the 180. The box fan was added to cool the LEDs.
I love my fish room even though it is a bucket O worms!
more pix
The other side FTS
Kitchen side showing lights
Closeup of light rack, with new blue LEDs
End view FTS (have you noticed if you shoot through the glass at an angle the pic is never quite sharp)?
Now current fish room pix. I have to admit I thought I was fairly neat, but seeing these pix I realized my fish room (wiring) looks like a bucket of worms.
RODI, deep sink & mixing area first.
Calcium reactor, controllers, skimmer, sump, & Litermeter III I use for ATO, You can see just above the sump I have a ozone system too. Also the calcium reactor has a second chamber (that way it puts out stronger effluent) without it all the coral sucked more calcium out than a normal reactor could keep up with.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1953276
The round tank is my 3gal vase that temporarily has two small mantis shrimp in it. the rectangular tank has been a fug,frag tank, NPS tank & right now I'm trying to get rid of the aptasia outbreak from the filter feeders.
Inback of the rectangular tank is a 5gal long skinny acrylic tank I made for a fug/pod farm. It drains into the 180, hopefully keeping the pod population up.
The overflow end of the 180. The box fan was added to cool the LEDs.
I love my fish room even though it is a bucket O worms!
fullmonti
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Thanks all, I'm so glad I finally did this thread. I have learned so much from other peoples experiences it's good try & return the favor.
LEDs are blue 3w Cree 12 on each side. A member of the local club set them up for me. They give a little pot to colors I don't really know much more than that.
There is a big ongoing debate on two part dosing vs calcium reactor. I chose the reactor because it seemed simpler to me. I am sure though I could Never have gotten that many corals to even live never mind grow with out one or the other. I just ran out of CO2 & alkalinity went down to 5-6 in just a few days. Hoping there will be no bad consequences.
I do 25gal water change a week (about 10%).
Power was on the next morning when we got up. Some I know still don't have power back yet. A few in our area didn't make it out of those storms, so we dodged a big one!
LEDs are blue 3w Cree 12 on each side. A member of the local club set them up for me. They give a little pot to colors I don't really know much more than that.
There is a big ongoing debate on two part dosing vs calcium reactor. I chose the reactor because it seemed simpler to me. I am sure though I could Never have gotten that many corals to even live never mind grow with out one or the other. I just ran out of CO2 & alkalinity went down to 5-6 in just a few days. Hoping there will be no bad consequences.
I do 25gal water change a week (about 10%).
Power was on the next morning when we got up. Some I know still don't have power back yet. A few in our area didn't make it out of those storms, so we dodged a big one!
fullmonti
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Sorry my answer to your question was not what it should have been. If you are keeping hard corals you will need to replace the calcium & alkalinity that the corals suck out of your tank. If you just have a few small ones water changes may do it. But when they grow or you add more you will need to add a reactor or start dosing. Both systems will work just fine. The reactor seemed the better solution for me. It will take some research on your part to figure out which is best for your system. Good luck.
Jim
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