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Last Post 09/27/2008 02:13 AM by cbort. 11 Replies.
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09/06/2008 01:33 PM  

Ok here is going to be my tank thread.

Quick little History of the tank:

I had this tank set up last year. I was running a 400W HQI reefstar pendant with a hamilton ballast and a couple actinic VHO's. I like the look a lot but just wanted something bigger. So i sold this tank and got a 80g Oceanic semi cube. I had it up and running for about 8 months and decided i was a little overwhelmed with a large tank so.......i bought this 40g cube back acouple weeks ago and transferred everything back to it. The first four pics are of when i had it set up last year. The butterfly was only in the tank for about a week before i set up the 80g cube. Enjoy!
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The next set of pictures are from this week! I got the 80g cubish tank down and transferred a bit of the rock to it and put all of the inhabitants into it. Yes there is a Blue hippo and a foxface in there now. They will be leaving me next week for larger (much larger) tanks. I am really sad to get rid of Dori! She has been such a good tang! She eats and is not shy at all! If i could keep her in this cube i would but she needs a larger tank. Biggest difference black sand out and white sand in!







Played around with the camera (cheapo) and got some pics that look a bit better, now just a hair too blue. Here are some pics with the white balance fixed.

and my sump set up for now I am going to switch it out for a 15g cuz the water level is just a bit too high for my liking

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09/08/2008 06:42 PM  
pics aren't working for me
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09/09/2008 05:27 PM  
smae here, i just got the first two
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09/09/2008 06:02 PM  











here are a few from his photobucket account
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09/09/2008 10:48 PM  
how did ya do that? i did that but some worked and some didnt?
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09/10/2008 10:29 PM  
looks like you had some sort of additional linkage in the tags ...perhaps something goofy with your copy/paste clipboard.


If you just copy and paste the precoded links from photobucket you should be good to go. Use the ones that look like this: [img ] http://www.sample.com [/ img]



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09/11/2008 09:23 PM  
New chiller/heater installed today! Its a CustomSeaLife 1/4 HP chiller/heater, with a Ranco Temp controller. Works sweet!





It is used either as a heater during the winter or a chiller during the summer. I have a heater in the back of my tank behind the false wall, and then i dropped the chiller coil into the sump. It has a differential setting and you can set it from 1-30 degrees. I have it set at 1 degree so as soon as my tank hits 78 it kicks on and cools it down to 77. Pretty sweet!

Fuzzy Pic of the sump with the coil in the sump



And a pic of the Ranco Temp Controler


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09/11/2008 09:24 PM  
And here is a pic of my newly added BlueHeaded Fairy Wrasse, so far she is eating very well and swimming quite a bit too.


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09/16/2008 09:48 AM  

New light came today! Whoohoo! Still not hung yet, but it came with legs so it will just sit on the tank until i get a chance to hang it up.
Its a 24" fixture made by Odyssey and uses a 250W HQI ballast. The bulb is 15K and also there are 2 55W PC Actinic bulbs. For night time the fixture has 8 LED's

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09/25/2008 10:31 PM  
Just got back from KC and got a sweet new light, its also a Odyssea all in one fixture.

The one on the left is my Odyssea 250W HQI with 2x65 actinics and 8 moonlights.

The one on the right is my new fixture, its a 150W HQI with 2x24 actinics and 2 moon lights







One light will be for my display tank, and the other is going to be for the frag tank i am planning. It is going to be a diy 18x18x8"T tank. It will be down the road but will probably be a AGA 10g for the time being.

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09/25/2008 10:33 PM  
Ok....Latest pictures of the Cube! I switched lights. I went with the 150W hqi. I was told the par on 150W HQI's are better anyway. And also the bulb he sold me was a coralvue 20k and i like the color 10x better than the 15k on the 250W.

And... i suspended the fixture from the ceiling! I hope it stays there! I am using egg crate over the tank, so if it were to fall atleats i will have a safty net! haha

Anyways here are the pics....











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09/27/2008 02:13 AM  
[B]Some early morning pics and i didn't realize how much sunlight hits my tank on the right side. I am usually at work from 7am-7pm, so i don't see it. No wonder why my toadstool opens up in that direction. He is just sun bathing![/B]











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