setting up my old 450 in Ft. lauderdale

Malcolm_C

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just wanted to share a few shots, and wanted to give thanks to joe for stopping over and helping me flip my tank. if all goes well, ill be up and running this weekendend. So far my setup consit of 4 eductors, and a ampmaster 5600 pump, a a 5 foot modifed myreef skimmer with dual beckets and three 400 W hqi ballast. a single stage calcium reator, 100 gallon sump and possible a 300 gallon refuge ( not sure if thats possible yet, and a wopping electric bill,


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just finished all the pvc, ill be getting water tomorrow. didn't have time to do a test run (oh boy!) so we will se what happens tomorrow. but here are some more pics

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i got some uncured rock yesterday, its not as good as the rock i got a few years ago, but its ok, it came from walt smith, but next time i order some, im going to go direct with a diver, its seems to come with more life, and they usally pack a little water inside the boxes. but this rock is ok


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heres a pick of my 6 chromis, this will be there second week in the tank

heres a pic of my homemade dual becket, not real pretty but it gets the job done.

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i dumped a entire bottle of iron in my tank about a week ago, so it looks like my skimmer is pulling out plyto



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heres a entire tank shot, only got one halide over the system at the moment and its only on for about 6 hours a day

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i currently have a 350 W cf blub over the rubbermaid container, the(really 85W) the light is on 34 hours a day, i also have macro alage in this container, im hoping the light will be able to penitrate to the bottom, so far the algae is still alive, but i can tell if its growing yet, the the water in the tank is beganing to turn green, so i guess the plyto is taking off.





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i got some uncured rock yesterday, its not as good as the rock i got a few years ago, but its ok, it came from walt smith, but next time i order some, im going to go direct with a diver, its seems to come with more life, and they usally pack a little water inside the boxes. but this rock is ok

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heres a pick of my 6 chromis, this will be there second week in the tank


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heres a pic of my homemade dual becket, not real pretty but it gets the job done.

DSC04404.JPG


i dumped a entire bottle of iron in my tank about a week ago, so it looks like my skimmer is pulling out plyto



DSC04406.JPG



heres a entire tank shot, only got one halide over the system at the moment and its only on for about 6 hours a day

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i currently have a 350 W cf blub over the rubbermaid container, the(really 85W) the light is on 24 hours a day, i also have macro alage in this container, im hoping the light will be able to penitrate to the bottom, so far the algae is still alive, but i can tell if its growing yet, the the water in the tank is beganing to turn green, so i guess the plyto is taking off.



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Does everyone in florida have this tile? Everyone i know of has it, is it like the florida state tile or something? :)

Nice setup!
 
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