Please show pics of your 180 tanks
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Went to the post office today to pickup my package. In it were the following:
Korallin 1502 Calcium Reactor (with busted pipes up top, Eheim works GREAT!),
10# CO2 tank
Regulator with selenoid.
$300.00
Feeling like I stole an expensive piece of equipment: Priceless!
Have to pay for both the inlet and outlet assembly (around $60) and beg someone for instructions since it came with none, but I'm happy! What a deal!
Tested my lights tonight. Replaced two VERY bright VHO's with Actinics (I got about 7 replacement VHO's and three MH's with the deal: $450 total - Browsing the selling forum is WORTH it!)
The MH's worked beautifully. MAN it's hot though! I have to rig up some sort of shield as the closed light box has an inlet and outlet fan, and the outlet blows directly against the inside of the drywall. I'm thinking a sheet or two of galvanized steel. Thoughts?
Get my AC installed tomorrow, including an extra duct, and should go pickup my ceiling vent fan (gonna need it) this weekend.
Korallin 1502 Calcium Reactor (with busted pipes up top, Eheim works GREAT!),
10# CO2 tank
Regulator with selenoid.
$300.00
Feeling like I stole an expensive piece of equipment: Priceless!
Have to pay for both the inlet and outlet assembly (around $60) and beg someone for instructions since it came with none, but I'm happy! What a deal!
Tested my lights tonight. Replaced two VERY bright VHO's with Actinics (I got about 7 replacement VHO's and three MH's with the deal: $450 total - Browsing the selling forum is WORTH it!)
The MH's worked beautifully. MAN it's hot though! I have to rig up some sort of shield as the closed light box has an inlet and outlet fan, and the outlet blows directly against the inside of the drywall. I'm thinking a sheet or two of galvanized steel. Thoughts?
Get my AC installed tomorrow, including an extra duct, and should go pickup my ceiling vent fan (gonna need it) this weekend.
April540
Premium Member
Goodness Mike, thats awsome! I really think 10 to 12 in. off the water, with all of that light and heat is as close as I would go, I think the 150 is for 24 inch deep tanks and the 250's are for up to 30 in. or so. and thats with the lights up about 12. But you have done a beautiful job.
Jarhed, while your shopping let me know if you run into any deals on lights! lol Great shopping! Your really getting things close now, I dont think I would ever figure out the plumbing though. I dont know why that is so hard for me to grasp.
Jarhed, while your shopping let me know if you run into any deals on lights! lol Great shopping! Your really getting things close now, I dont think I would ever figure out the plumbing though. I dont know why that is so hard for me to grasp.
Also check your local reefer clubs. If they have one local to you, you can pick stuff up locally. Check out this list:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=80
http://reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=80
cediss
New member
April, not sure what your looking for, but Reef Exotics has reaaly good prices on metal halides and I have been satisfied so far with the SE 400 watt Electronic kit I bought. Was like $215 total and it looks great. Check them out below. Excellent service from Anthony!
www.acropora.net
www.acropora.net
April540
Premium Member
And BTW, love the new rock, yes it is good to have nice friends in this hobby, the only thing about that is, I am the only one I know here, in my area that has any of this, so you all are who I get to talk to on the reef at all, sorry, I probably drive you all nuts! But it really has been a treat to see all that you guys are doing and have accomplished. I have a couple of corals I wish I could trade for something new, but swapping here is really not an option, and shipping is not either, I would be afraid to ship anything alive.Also,what is the white coral in the middle?
cediss
New member
Included ballast, cords, mogul socket, reflector and bulb! I do have actinics, but if you went with 14 or 20 K you probably could do without actinics. I have 2 x 400 watt 10 K and 2x 175w 10K. 2 40 watt actinics. If you went with 14K or 20K you would only need the actinics to simulate dawn dusk, which is not a necessity.
Thanks for positive comments. Sorry for the poor image quality, by the time I reduced the file size to fit on RC it lost the clarity. The white thing is one of the new rocks which projects out as an over-hang. There is a cave bellow it which as of this evening my torch coral is sitting in. That rock was once some sort of SPS, possibly a species of pocillopora. That's why you were fooled into thinking it was a live coral rather than rock. I thinks it's great that you are able to still able to maintain the hobby deep in the interior of the country. Don't want to rub it in, but there are advantages (few) to living in LA area, including access to many reef hobby resources. We all want these tanks looking perfect right away, but if you belong in this hobby, you have to be patient and caring for your corals. With time they will reward you with growth and you will find corals that suit your needs with time.
When I first got into this hobby, there were only a few elites even keeping SPS. Corals were only wild collected and rarely SPS available, let alone hardy enough for our systems at that time. Now as our knowledge, skill, and equipment continues to improve, we are seeing aquacultured specimens, frag swapping, and people even trying to trademark corals. What this means is sites like this which will give you the knowledge to keep more species and availability to more and more people to previously unavailable specimens. In the US, 15 years ago acropora were mainly kept by people like Sprung and Tyree with variable success that they learned from Dutch and German hobbyists as well as trial and error.
Sorry for the reef keeping history lesson, but what I'm trying to tell you is this. 1) The fact that you even have a reef tank is impressive. 2) You will continue to have increasing availability to get better equipment and more variety of corals. 3) you will likely find someone near you within the next year who has a reef tank.
I only found RC last year despite my 20+ years of reef keeping. I actually thought I was only among a handfull of people in California keeping corals successfully. Boy was my ego completely wrong in every account. This hobby has rocketed past me in the last 10 years and I didn't even know it!
Again sorry for the ranting, but it really is interesting to me how this hobby has spread.
Thanks for positive comments. Sorry for the poor image quality, by the time I reduced the file size to fit on RC it lost the clarity. The white thing is one of the new rocks which projects out as an over-hang. There is a cave bellow it which as of this evening my torch coral is sitting in. That rock was once some sort of SPS, possibly a species of pocillopora. That's why you were fooled into thinking it was a live coral rather than rock. I thinks it's great that you are able to still able to maintain the hobby deep in the interior of the country. Don't want to rub it in, but there are advantages (few) to living in LA area, including access to many reef hobby resources. We all want these tanks looking perfect right away, but if you belong in this hobby, you have to be patient and caring for your corals. With time they will reward you with growth and you will find corals that suit your needs with time.
When I first got into this hobby, there were only a few elites even keeping SPS. Corals were only wild collected and rarely SPS available, let alone hardy enough for our systems at that time. Now as our knowledge, skill, and equipment continues to improve, we are seeing aquacultured specimens, frag swapping, and people even trying to trademark corals. What this means is sites like this which will give you the knowledge to keep more species and availability to more and more people to previously unavailable specimens. In the US, 15 years ago acropora were mainly kept by people like Sprung and Tyree with variable success that they learned from Dutch and German hobbyists as well as trial and error.
Sorry for the reef keeping history lesson, but what I'm trying to tell you is this. 1) The fact that you even have a reef tank is impressive. 2) You will continue to have increasing availability to get better equipment and more variety of corals. 3) you will likely find someone near you within the next year who has a reef tank.
I only found RC last year despite my 20+ years of reef keeping. I actually thought I was only among a handfull of people in California keeping corals successfully. Boy was my ego completely wrong in every account. This hobby has rocketed past me in the last 10 years and I didn't even know it!
Again sorry for the ranting, but it really is interesting to me how this hobby has spread.
