EDIT: MY ATTACHED greenhouse construction log.

[coralfarmin]

Most of these shots are taken late in the evening...I'll get one mid day as well.

I have'nt run the halides over the vats except just to look a few minutes at night, in over a month
I will however run the 400 over the glass tank 12 hrs per day.

 

[coralfarmin]

under just the sun today,testing the waters

 

[coralfarmin]

some blue/purple shrooms under the 400 20k

 

[coralfarmin]

inside 300 gallon sump

 

[coralfarmin]

sun inside 300 gallon Rubbermaid vat

 

[coralfarmin]

heres a shot of the tank, I still have alot of work to do to the greenhouse but atleast the waters flowing

I will probably get 40 coral from Solomon next week, mainly softies but I will also get a few stony as well to test out

 

[coralfarmin]

as you can clearly see..there is lots of sun in the vats

 

[coralfarmin]

heres what inside the tank looks like now

 

[coralfarmin]

also added one of them stand alone sinks

now its time to start building a freestanding greenhouse

 

[coralfarmin]

hi all

this will be my last post on this greenhouse

The system will be consolidated in our future freestanding greenhouse

this pic is just to show the RAPID coraline growth in the inital vat setup

on May 30

it is Aug.14

about 2.5 months

I will start rock farmin now also I think

I will start a new thread on the freestanding greenhouse with a link to the pics so I dont waste no more space for pics, here at RO

 

[coralfarmin]

even more rapid on the bottom

last pic

 

[coastal]

any update on your ops?

 

[coralfarmin]

hey coastal
I have been renovating a farm house built in 1907 complete with a farm field on a main highway, I should be done and moved in a few months and will be building a new system.

This system worked very well but the new one should be better.

btw yours is lookin great !

 

[coralfarmin]

hi all , been a while since I been here. Just thought I'd update.

I have moved and renovated a 100 year old farm house, now for coral farming not corn LOL. I will bee starting a new greenhouse detached. Also I am looking into opening a brick and morter store front.

Corals grew like crazy in the old greenhouse, so the design worked well, I learned alot and will make a better one this time