Well here's another update to go with the pic's I posted last night.
1. The fish are doing great and eating like pigs. The male naso, as seen in the pic's, now has about a 4" long streammers on his tail. The hawaiian wrasse, I'm sad to say, has passed on. he was doing great and then went and hid in the rocks for a long time. I don't think he was eating enough towards the end.
2. I replumbed the skimmer output and it now flows directly into the far end of teh 90 Sump vice returning to the 30 skimmer sump. I think this will be a better setup as that way there is always fresh water going into the skimmer. I was afraid that most of the water in the skimmer was just recirculating from the output into the sump and back in. Not anymore. There is still enough flow thru the 30 skimmer sump that it keeps the skimmer full and still overflows over to the 90 sump. So not all of the skimmed water from teh tank actually goes thru the skimmer. I don't want to cut the flow from the tank back, but I think it will work just fine like it is.
3. The 90 sump now has some LR in it as well as it's now setup as a frag growout area. I put a 150 W HQI H.O.T. setup from coralview over it. It's running a phoinex 14K bulb and looks great. Now I can grow out frags to trade to stock this thing.
4. I purchased my lights for the tank and should have them next week. I'm getting some coralview 400W HQI pendants. three for right now and the guy is going to try and get me a 4th one. That should be enough light for the tank so that I can grow whatever I want. I like the looks of the 14K Phoinex bulbs that I have on the sump and may go with the same in the pendants. If I do, then I won't need any atinic lights and will just remove the 8 X 55W PC's that are on it now. That or I'll make them all atinic and just use them for dawn/dusk lighting.
5. As you can see by the pic's above, work continues on the sunroom. I've got a new wall in, installed two sets of french doors and ran all the electrical as well as hung drywall. It's just about ready for paint. After that, I've got to pour some self levleing compound on the floor to make it all level. Then it will be time to start moving the tank into it's new home.
We are going to go with a cherry lamaniate flooring. I'm going to build steps for teh doors out of oak to match the doors. I'm also thinking of doing the tank cabintry in oak as well rather than cherry. That way there is some contrast between the two.
Don't know how much I'll get done with the holidays coming up but I want to at least get enough done so that I can move the tank in by next Jan. Wish me luck.
LOL)
