Summer Role Call!!!

i just got new T5 bulbs from UVL. they make the corals look really great, but the "Super Actinic" bulbs make my tank look pink. I think I may replace one of them with an ATI Blue Plus bulb. And i just switched to seachem reef salt, doing my first water change with it tonight.
my RBTA split.
and i'm working on adding blue corals to my tank..... proving hard to find though.
I also bought Ryan's 120, i got it cleaned up and i'll be setting it up to replace my 75 soon.

hey JB..... do a water change.

 

Sorry man I have been working on the house as it was half destroyed. Since the basement is down to bare walls again I decided to expand the fish room
by 3 feet. I am going to order 2 240 wides this fall & have a SPS tank & a LPS tank. I am going to install an air exchanger to control humidity.

I am looking forward to see the difference in your tank from last winter when I saw it last.

 

I've been here. Just a few plans this summer remodeling the 1st floor bathroom.
As for the tank I just upgraded the lights and added another 2 T5's. I went all ATI lamps 3 Blueplus 2 Aquablue specials and 1 Procolor. I really like the look and love the dusk to dawn effect with the 2 blue plusses. I also just installed two new Vortech M40w's pretty happy with them. I've recently changed my display from LPS to SPS dominant.
The wife wants a bigger tank too so I'm going to be looking for a 60" or make a 66" tank. I wish my wall space was 4" wider to fit a 6' tank. She also gave me the go ahead to plumb the display into my basement for a sump down there.

 

I'm still here JB! Too much to do too little time. I have been concentrating on the system though, just not reef trakker. I am remodeling part of my basement for the 240 I bought a month ago. I also have upgraded my ACII to an AC3, it should be here tomorrow. DIY skimmer is kicking butt but I still ordered a bigger pump and have to rebuild the skuimmer to fit it.
Are you still using Reef Trakker?

 

I've got some tank projects that I need to get done, but I've been enjoying the weather so much that I've keep putting them off.

I've got to get my Kalk reactor and auto-topoff hooked up so my I can better control my water parameters and hopefully that will help get rid of some of the hair algae and cyano I've got in my tank (I suppose a large WC would help that as well...)

I recently got a new PH meter for my ACII and need to get that calibrated and online. I still have ReefTrakker Joel, although I've still not resolved the issue I emailed you about. Unfortunately I've been having trouble with the PC that its installed on (got a Mac version of ReefTrakker??) and so I haven't been able to concentrate on getting that issue resolved.

I also got an additional reflector, endcaps and IC660 so I can upgrade from 4x39W over my tank to 5x39W T5s. I bought 2 extra bulbs that are different than anything I currently have so I can play around and see if I find a lighting combination I like better than what I have now (which I like a lot, but as its my first combo I might just not know what I'm missing)

I'm hoping a combination of the Kalk reactor and additional lighting will help my coral color back up to how it looked when I first got some of it. Most of my polyps are still vibrantly colored but the "stalk" of some of my SPS is much browner than I know it can be. My coral is all growing which is a good sign, so I know its healthy and I'm just not providing whatever it needs to color up nicely.

Happy summer to all and my thoughts are with those affected by flooding...

 

I too am still around. I have not had much time to type, but now that the new clinic is open I will have a little more time to post to the board and try to dream up a location for a tank here in the office.

 

I am still around. Working on getting stuff together to put up my 40 breeder for a honeycomb or blue dot puffer only tank.
I got a new dog (Pug-Zu).
I am trying to sell my truck without much success.
And I am still waiting on a 75 for my main tank so that I can get me one of them there tang things.

 

ha HA! I'm not sure if it's a downgrade or not, but I've gone from a 120 with a massive skimmer and 800 watts of light to a 50 with a CSS125 skimmer, an itty bitty 250w DE pendant, and an AC3 AND a 24 nano in my office with an unidentified skimmer (I built one I thought seemed small - it's a little bigger than the CSS - oops), an itty bitty 150w DE pendant, and a reefkeeper2 on its way.

I'm also not sure why ha HA! seemed fitting, but it felt good so I went with it.

 

Posted By ryansholl on 07/07/2008 11:54 AM
ha HA! I'm not sure if it's a downgrade or not, but I've gone from a 120 with a massive skimmer and 800 watts of light to a 50 with a CSS125 skimmer, an itty bitty 250w DE pendant, and an AC3 AND a 24 nano in my office with an unidentified skimmer (I built one I thought seemed small - it's a little bigger than the CSS - oops), an itty bitty 150w DE pendant, and a reefkeeper2 on its way.
I'm also not sure why ha HA! seemed fitting, but it felt good so I went with it.What'd you do with all your fish?? especially your tangs??

 

They seem to be extremely happy with a 3' water run in front of Koralia 4s. I never did have a lot of fish, so they fit nicely.

 

Here! I haven't been doing much with the tank at all. I've been out of town a lot lately and I just feed the tank and do water changes when I can. I suppose it's good that I am keeping my hands out of the tank though. Things are doing fine but still not growing as fast as I would like it. I suppose it has something to do with my relaxed husbandry(water changes, testing parameters, feeding daily) skills during the summer. /site/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/_default/emoticons/wink.gif

Anyway I'm still here and I hope those who haven't reported is doing well.