pch90265
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[Almost] Back to the Living
[Almost] Back to the Living
All,
Thank you for your undying patience with the SIGNIFICANT gap since my last contributions to this thread.
As I mentioned a while back, I committed to my wife that I would get this tank up and running in early August so I could spend the last two month of her pregnancy focused on -- you guessed it -- HER.
I'm absolutely proud to report that I succeeded in meeting that timeline, and am now the parent of a healthy, happy baby girl -- Elise Nicole. She was born at 3:03 AM on 9/30. 7# 7 oz. 20 1/2" long... Here's a picture of our future Dive Instructor at about a week old. . .
So, with the baby creeping up on a month, I was able to sneek in some time during the rains week before last to get my four 250W DE pendants hung. Man, they are beautiful. They have given a killer amount of POP to all of the acros in the tank. Unfortunately, I didn't have a choice put to hang the pendants because rain was coming and I had to cover the skylight (umm, yeah, some matter of taring the roof around the flashing still needs tending to . . .)
Here's a shot of the tank, after the rains had stopped, with just the MH running. I am running a 10000K and a 20000K over each half of the tank. Not a lot of wattage, I know, but it is for spectrum, not intensity... at least in this iteration of my science experiment.
This shot is taken with exactly the same exposure settings on my camera as the previous shot. Obviously, the cover over the skylight has come off!!! It is just unreal how much light my reflectors are bouncing down into the tank... and, as predicted, the reflectors have virtually eliminated any "dead spots" from the pendants hanging over the tank.
Sorry this is just a quick tease... I'll give a more detailed report on my science project [err, tank] in the next few days.
Thanks again for all the support everyone.
Cheers!!!
--Sean--
[Almost] Back to the Living
All,
Thank you for your undying patience with the SIGNIFICANT gap since my last contributions to this thread.
As I mentioned a while back, I committed to my wife that I would get this tank up and running in early August so I could spend the last two month of her pregnancy focused on -- you guessed it -- HER.
I'm absolutely proud to report that I succeeded in meeting that timeline, and am now the parent of a healthy, happy baby girl -- Elise Nicole. She was born at 3:03 AM on 9/30. 7# 7 oz. 20 1/2" long... Here's a picture of our future Dive Instructor at about a week old. . .
So, with the baby creeping up on a month, I was able to sneek in some time during the rains week before last to get my four 250W DE pendants hung. Man, they are beautiful. They have given a killer amount of POP to all of the acros in the tank. Unfortunately, I didn't have a choice put to hang the pendants because rain was coming and I had to cover the skylight (umm, yeah, some matter of taring the roof around the flashing still needs tending to . . .)
Here's a shot of the tank, after the rains had stopped, with just the MH running. I am running a 10000K and a 20000K over each half of the tank. Not a lot of wattage, I know, but it is for spectrum, not intensity... at least in this iteration of my science experiment.
This shot is taken with exactly the same exposure settings on my camera as the previous shot. Obviously, the cover over the skylight has come off!!! It is just unreal how much light my reflectors are bouncing down into the tank... and, as predicted, the reflectors have virtually eliminated any "dead spots" from the pendants hanging over the tank.
Sorry this is just a quick tease... I'll give a more detailed report on my science project [err, tank] in the next few days.
Thanks again for all the support everyone.
Cheers!!!
--Sean--
I wish we received enough sunlight up here in the north to try to use natural sunlight.
