Hi everyone,
I have met a few of you. Alot of you have not so I figured I should show some pics of my setup and Introduce myself officially. I know my join date was Feb of 2006, I lurked for a while and should have introduced by now. Sorry about that. I had a great time at the frag swap. It was my first MR event.
This tank has been up and running for 6 months. I cooked my rock in tubs for about 2 months before I set it up in may. I am an SPS addict, i started out w/ some Digitata frags and as I gained confidence in my abilities to keep these things alive, I Tried some acro species and this is what I have so far.
I apologize in advance for the pics. I am no professional nor do I claim to be. These were the best I could get out of my point and shoot camera. The colors on the pics aren't quite what they are in real life. But I can't adjust the white balance on this little camera.
Here are my lights...i am using 4x39w T5 bulbs w/ SLR reflectors and Icecap 660 ballast. These really crank out some serious light and I have been able to get growth on my "experiment frags" down on the sand.
Here is the underneath showing the equip.
Sump is an AGA 15g
Eheim 1250 Return Pump
Deltec AP600 Skimmer skiming 100% from the drain
A little refugium w/ some cheato and calerpa w/ cheapo HD clamp light and a 6500k bulb.
5.5g Topoff Tank. (I use a double float switch and an aqualifter.)
Tunze 6000 w/ controller
Reefkeeper 2 controller
Refurbed Perilstatic dosing pump w/ 2-channel tubing set to dose B-Ionic.
And thats it in a nutshell...The two big colonies are the latest additions...I am hoping I can keep them alive because they are pretty sweet. The really think table like acro colony needs alot of flow to get those polyps in the middle moving so I moved the Tunze a bit. I got them 40% off from Reefer Madness. Of course they didn't look exactly like the photos, but If i can get them to color up close they will be pretty sweet specimens...Everything else I have are aquaculture frags.
I have met a few of you. Alot of you have not so I figured I should show some pics of my setup and Introduce myself officially. I know my join date was Feb of 2006, I lurked for a while and should have introduced by now. Sorry about that. I had a great time at the frag swap. It was my first MR event.
This tank has been up and running for 6 months. I cooked my rock in tubs for about 2 months before I set it up in may. I am an SPS addict, i started out w/ some Digitata frags and as I gained confidence in my abilities to keep these things alive, I Tried some acro species and this is what I have so far.
I apologize in advance for the pics. I am no professional nor do I claim to be. These were the best I could get out of my point and shoot camera. The colors on the pics aren't quite what they are in real life. But I can't adjust the white balance on this little camera.
Here are my lights...i am using 4x39w T5 bulbs w/ SLR reflectors and Icecap 660 ballast. These really crank out some serious light and I have been able to get growth on my "experiment frags" down on the sand.
Here is the underneath showing the equip.
Sump is an AGA 15g
Eheim 1250 Return Pump
Deltec AP600 Skimmer skiming 100% from the drain
A little refugium w/ some cheato and calerpa w/ cheapo HD clamp light and a 6500k bulb.
5.5g Topoff Tank. (I use a double float switch and an aqualifter.)
Tunze 6000 w/ controller
Reefkeeper 2 controller
Refurbed Perilstatic dosing pump w/ 2-channel tubing set to dose B-Ionic.
And thats it in a nutshell...The two big colonies are the latest additions...I am hoping I can keep them alive because they are pretty sweet. The really think table like acro colony needs alot of flow to get those polyps in the middle moving so I moved the Tunze a bit. I got them 40% off from Reefer Madness. Of course they didn't look exactly like the photos, but If i can get them to color up close they will be pretty sweet specimens...Everything else I have are aquaculture frags.
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