The 300 has begun

[Dave's Reef]

Nice to finally see some life in that thar tank!

I love your stand, are you gonna do the canopy to match, I would imagine so, eh? Also, are you gonna add any supplemental lighting or just go with the 3 halides?

BTW, sorry about your temp swing and the loss Other than that you're lookin good!

Your daughter's cute btw! I've got a 7 year old and she's grown up with my tank. She loves it~!

 

[Bigred]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14035290#post14035290 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by frontosa_man80
you lost the pink milli?

what other two look unhappy?

-jesse

I lost that light blue aquacultured one that I brought back from LA. The other ones are the Idaho Grape and and large stag that was under your frag rack.

I took the pink milli and cut all the living piece off and mounted it to one rock. It's doing fine.

 

[Bigred]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14035332#post14035332 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Dave's Reef
I love your stand, are you gonna do the canopy to match, I would imagine so, eh? Also, are you gonna add any supplemental lighting or just go with the 3 halides?

Yep, going to do the canopy to match the stand. I'm also going to run 2 46" VHOs and I have a lunar cycle moon light system. Just trying to figure out how I'm going to do the canopy. Also thinking of adding one more 250 with the Lumenarc 3.

 

[usefulidiot213]

Looks really good. Sucks about loosing the frags

 

[Dave's Reef]

Sounds nice Red!

I hope you'll include pic's of the canopy and the how to steps....

By the way, I'm wondering how does everyone put those nifty aluminum lighting support structures together anyway? I wish I knew how to do that when I put my tank together.

Anybody got a how to link on that one? I'd love to see it for future reference....

Thanks

 

[Bigred]

I just went to Home Depot and bought the aluminum. Cut it and bolted it together.

 

[vanmle]

How much did it cost you?

 

[Dave's Reef]

Well I didn't now they had that at home depot? Cool!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14038196#post14038196 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bigred
I just went to Home Depot and bought the aluminum. Cut it and bolted it together.

 

[Bigred]

Maybe $25-30. I used the 1" square tubing and used brackets to put it together. I'll post a pic when I get home of the other one I made for my old 380 with 4 lumenarcs on it.

 

[kirstenk]

Your tank is looking good. Sorry to hear about the heater.

 

[Bigred]

Well here's a picture of what my skimmer has pulled out so far. Anyone want a fear factor drink?

 

[vanmle]

What is the size of the cup and how long did it take to create that much skimmage?

 

[Bigred]

The cup is 8" with a 4" neck. It's been on for about 2 weeks but there was nothing in the tank prior to me just adding the corals and 3 fish.

 

[tigerarmy40]

wow! that is some serious muck...what pump do you run on your skimmer?

 

[Bigred]

I think it's the Ocean Runner 3700

 

[Bigred]

Well as I noted above I have 3 fish in the tank. I have a 2" Purple Tang, 1.5" Vlamingi Tang, and a 2.5" Naso Tang.

 

[Garage1217]

Wow you lost them from only dropping to 75.6? My tank is around that nightly, peaks at 79-80 in the day & nothing even looks slightly stressed, in fact growing like weeds. Sorry for your loss. Do you normally keep it much higher as in 85 or so?

 

[Bigred]

Nope, the tank runs from 76.5-78.5.

 

[ScrubberOTanky]

So an extra one degree colder wiped out your corals?? Are we sure it wasn't something else??

 

[Bigred]

Well they could of not liked being in a 5 gal bucket with the giant slimer, and 10+ other corals dosed with Revive for 20 minutes. Lots of chemical warfare in a 5 gal bucket.

On temp, look at the normal reefs if the water goes up 2 degrees the corals RTN. So maybe one degree can make a difference. I don't really know what it dropped to since when I got up the lights are already on. Which that helps heat the tank.

I think the reason is the time in the bucket.