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[Fliger]

The H&S is really pulling out the gunk, very happy with it. Kind of wish I had a 2x1260 - I might move up a size sometime soon.

My wife thinks I've bizarre, not only do I not mind the smell of skimmate ... she laughs her arse off when she sees me with the camera taking pix of it ...

 

[Treg]

Dude that fan is sexy!





Then Nem is looking good too. Glad it is pulling thru for ya.

 

[CalvinC4S]

Glad to hear your light is working and the fans look great.

What is the PVC, some type of closed loop?

What did you get at the show in California?

See anything good?

 

[Fliger]

Yeah I love the fans. I always loved G.Alexander's fan setup and these remind me of them. I'd seen them for years in pix at European trade shows and never could get them. Edward got the black Giesemann ones so I had to be different. :lol:

Heh, thats my SPS rack. I suspended it - most my SPS are sitting on it until I get everything else worked out. I don't want to mount anything permanently until all other things are figured out. Really after (our) sumps arrive - I should be able to wrap things up. Then I want to set it and forget it.

The show was good. I only stayed for a couple hours. Next door there was a cat show, and I heard the reef nerds with pocket protectors making fun of cat people, and I swear the cat people with pocket protectors were snickering at us reef nerds. I picked up some SPS frags and a couple nice Lords - but mostly I amassed a list of "must haves" when I'm done. I met Doug of Deltec which was cool, but the Teco guy wouldn't really give me the time of day. Next year I will be the uber geek, show up early with a specially rigged igloo cooler - complete with B2 on the top - collecting SPS.

I do really like the Sfiligoi now that its working. Its dual 400W, I'm running Radiums and the coverage is nice. I'm just glad that I had some experience wiring lights, and that I had a could pickup a spare to save my butt - or I would have been SOL. Of course that said, I'll probably be replacing it with the Giesemann Spectra or an Elos. We'll see ....

 

[MSHUR]

David,
Looking good man,..I am glad you fianlly happy with Sfiligoi...
I finally got my tank yeastarday, hang my Sfiligoi.. and getting ready for plumming.. Pics are comming....
Question, do you think those new dimmable ballasts will work in Sfiligoi? I did get a Profilux controller with all "toys"

mike

 

[maxxII]

I just ordered a couple captive bred elegance corals! I've resisted since I left the Bay almost 7 years ago, but Mike at TCR seems to know what he's doing. Here is a pic, hopefully they make it thru shipping next week.

Where are you ordering these from? I've been very interested in keeping these corals, but never seen any that were healthy. If there is a good captive source for them, I'd cheerfully pay what their worth.

Nick

 

[invincible569]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10607574#post10607574 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Fliger
Edward got the black Giesemann ones so I had to be different. :lol:

LOL. I know how you feel.

 

[Fliger]

Not too much to report - I did just order a new skimmer and chiller though. I'm currently running the JBJ and it works fine - I looked hard at the Teco, but I will still have the same problem of heat blowing into the room and having to vent it out. So I decided to go with the Ocean Geotronic 900 model - stock picture is below. I like a few things about it, which for me makes the price worth it

- Small, easy to plumb & move
- Heater & chiller - never fights itself and no on/off gaps
- Quality thermometer
- Silent
- No freon, super easy maintenance - just take a vacuum to the Peltier plates
- Runs at ~400W Max, 9 degree pulldown at @ 237 gallons - so I can keep this plugged into my B2 for redundancy
- Slightly more "green" with no freon, and lower wattage

But most of all I like that it keeps the temp steady. I run a lot of lighting and I keep my chiller at 78, which means it turns on at 79 and off at 77. It doesn't take long to reach 79, so this cycle repeats far too often. It also has some cool stainless rails that I ordered, although I have no idea what they really do. I can also run this underneath my tank on the dry side

Before I get rid of the JBJ - I'm going to do some wattage testing. I have a couple wattage meters that average kh/hour.

I'm also leaning towards going back to the older model H&S, A200 2x1260. That was the first high end skimmer I ever owned - it replaced one of ER's first external models (JUNK!) - 12-2RC External. I know ER has come a long way since but I really love this model. They replaced it with the A250 but the A200 can be special ordered. This was also a hard decision, I looked at the BK250 External - I had the BK300 External and it was awesome but it won't fit. I looked at the Deltec with SCH but the footprints just didn't work. I could have had a custom model made but the timing & cost were just too much. I couldn't go wrong with BK/Deltec/H&S as I've used all of them. Here is a favorite picture of mine -

My elegance corals came in and they are stunning. Way to go captivereef for learning to frag them. Got a couple other things - here are my favorites

This has to be my favorite Lord - the pink is fantastic. It came from bluegrasscorals.com

 

[KingfishJohn]

Fliger,

Love those Ocean Geotronic Chillers but have a couple of words of advice for you. First, the inlet and outlet are 1/2" and REALLY cut flow down so plan accordingly. Second, don't put the unit anywhere saltwater might splash it as I've seen rust spots on one of our units.

Sweet Elegance :smokin:

John

 

[hawaiianwargod]

Chiller looks sweet Flig! I agree, your acan looks incredible!

 

[bogg]

Wow that coral is realllllyyy pretty I don't normally even like lords that much but that one... I would'nt mind in my tank.

 

[Lunchbucket]

DANG that chiller/heater looks great. Where you get it?

Don't know what to tell you on the skimmer. Never owned a BK or an H&S...hmmm...I might want to get to trying them I'd LOVE to get a BK180 to try out. but I REALLY like the AP701 a lot. I'd love to try an H&S also.

Keep us posted on what you decide to go w/
Lunchbucket

 

[purebullet417]

i have an a200 1260 on my 210 and it works great so i can only imagine how an a200 2x1260 would work

 

[Fliger]

Hey thanks everyone. Purebullet - I'm sure the 1x1260 is enough, I pull a TON of crud with it. But I just love that 2x1260 - its a real beast. I'd like to start feeding a little more - and I want to make sure I have more than enough skimmer. I'll keep one pump dialed back to 50% anyway.

Corals are doing great.

Lunch - you can get it from finsreef or aquarium specialty. I think it should be here in a couple weeks. The 701 is a nice skimmer. My current skimmer is almost identical - I had it cut short to 24" tall. It pulls a ton of air due to no head pressure. There are a lot of good skimmers available now but I'm glad I decided to stick with one of the three I really know - H&S/BK/Deltec.

Thedude, thanks for the tip man. Looking forward to the 900. Dude, its gonna be a long year. I predict 8-8. You been watching "Hard Knocks"?

 

[KingfishJohn]

Yeah, our defensive coaches are hilarious, glad we got Gunther back from Texas!

I think our defense is going to step it up this year and our offense is going to take 2 steps back. The way Peterson handled the Trent Green situation still makes me sick to my stomach.

John

 

[Fliger]

I'm considering ditching the Flame RBTA. He is SOOO awesome and different but every morning the first thing I have to do is find him. Since my crash - most of my SPS are frags and they probably can't take a huge BTA sitting on top of them. I also have a lot of micros/dendro/balono/acans that would probably lose a battle. I also worry about him finding his way into a Vortech or Stream. He was so hard to find but I'm just not sure if its worth it. I'm headed to Hawaii for 5 days next weekend and pretty nervous about it.

I also haven't had much time the last couple weeks - a good friend of mine (Philwd) came down with AEFW's and I set up a 55G tank in the living room (testing the boundaries of my marriage :lol: ). Setting up even a small tank is a pain. He has (had) and amazing reef with enormous SPS - all LE's - and got whacked. So I'm helping out.

Dude - Peterson is a schmuck. He only cares about filling the stands. I can't remember our last Defensive Coordinator - they guy they brought in to "handle" the AFC West - he killed us. All those years leading every offensive category - but last in defense. Just a mediocre D would have made the Super Bowl (can't say those words and not think of Lamar) at least once. Gunther should get us back to a tough D.

You and I say "we" and "our" and "us" like we suit up for practice. :lol:

 

[Treg]

Dont know how this would work for you but when I moved my anemones during the tank upgrade they wouldnt stay still either. Both even spawned during the transition. So I took them out of the tank and the rock that I wanted them to be on and placed everything in a 5g bucket over night (in the sump) with an air line. Both attached to the rock well and have not moved again since being back in the new tank.

You can also try putting the foot in a small clay flower pot, then hide the pot in the rocks... Not exactly classy for a high end system but its been known to work well.

 

[Fliger]

Well I'm off to Maui to see some fishies and play some golf. My BTA experiment came to a sad end. I didn't want to get one until my tank was done - but the flames are so hard to come by I made a poor executive decision. Poor dude lost a battle to a powerhead.

I got a few new toys, dimmable T5 ballasts, dimmable moonlights - should get the B2 stand in a few weeks. Last two things I'm waiting on are a new sump and acrylic basins for my stand. Then I'll set all the rest up - ca rx, all B2 functions, etc. Geotronic Chiller/Heater should be here in a couple weeks and hopefully the new H&S also. Getting excited to have a living room back, right now it still looks like the lab room of a mad scientist. :lol:

Aloha!

 

[MSHUR]

Sorry about your BTA. I lost mine last year to a Tunze But never replace one.. Plus he was touching my SPs frags and they didnt liek it at all..

Plase, let us know how do you like dimmable ballasts..I wanna get them badly,but scared to do re-wireing jod on Sfiligoi...So many grey wires


mike

 

[loweryster]

post pics of the ballast job

dreaming...72" spectra converted, 80watt dimmable T5 ballast, B2.....