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Nothing at all in the morning. There is subdued lighting in the morning because the glass balcony door faces West, and it's shaded until dusk. I was thinking of adding some LED's, but only to prevent my fish from bumping into each other or the corals j/k :) In reality, I ran out of electrical...

and in this pic, you can see the violet procolor bulb which I think has helped pop more reds/oranges

Now, don't be critical :) these pics were taken with my $1.80 Lens box!

I actually miss my old topdown box that RichT built. The only thing with boxes is that they are big and clunky. I was bored, so I decided to make a lens box :) I don't have a router, so I had to rough cut a piece of acrylic and looked around my place for something to hold the acrylic as a...

SO- 2 Weeks! Lighting- The T5's have been running for about 2 weeks. The Coral color shift was phenomenally & unexpectedly quick. The T5's are on from 4pm to 12 am (midnight) and the metal halides are only on for 4 hours, which is right in the middle of the t5 period (6pm-10pm). I think it had...

corals look better from above due their natural sunblock :) yes, I agree with phyl. Some pics are waaay over sharpened using software. BUT, I must also say that some corals have more of a pop when under 12K lights and above.

acrylic. i don't have a box anymore. i turn the pumps off

ooh, i know, i know! 2nd pic looks like it was taken with a flash (which has a rough spectrum of 5500K), the first one was tank lighting with some blue supplementation, (higher spectrum vs the warm tones of 5500K) .......and the plate looks better now!

here's another milli

paul- probably a valida aka purple tip nana.

I had a 6100 and a 6000 on my 75 gallon. Alternating between the two at 80% and 100% strength respectively. I reused them on my new tank (a foot longer), and are now both at 100% alternating

I should ask Joe P next time he comes to visit us :) Galloway twp, 15 minutes west of Atlantic City- also right off of Exit 44 on the GSP

No problem, ask away! The last time I changed Carbon was First week of October right before the dosing. To be honest with you, I totally forgot to change it out. I think I'm gonna leave the current Carbon running in the tank as I still have the 5 cups of "emergency carbon" nicely packed in a...

me too! Imagine doing that upstairs with 140 gallons of freshly made RO water only to seep down to your neighbor's condo downstairs....and when the knock came on my door? I opened it with a smile and said, Hey, what's up? Flood? No. There's no water here, see? Hardwood floor's all...

Thanks for the compliments! I attribute the growth to the increase of Magnesium which I assume led to the bio-available Calcium. The vodka definitely starved the algae out (which in turn may have released chemicals that inhibit coral growth, and add yellowing compounds to the water). The water...

thanks brah, and by all means, feel free to reach out once you start putting live rock shelves together. there's a bit of a trick in getting the magnets to work and attach properly, so let me know when you get closer to playing with them. I also just realized that you don't need the plastic...

October 7th to December 16th CAP growth sequence: So, dosage is still at 1 ml, and umm, every now and then I miss a day, but it hasn't shown any deleterious effects. Still continuing the potassium dosage and regular additions of MgCl2 as well as Turbo calcium. I slowed the Kalk drip...

and I made a little baby shelf too, to squeeze behind the efflo..... and the mandatory FTS with the T5's only (actnic--aquablue--procolor--actinic)

Here's the shelf on her maiden dunkage in the tank.... not the final resting place of course. here is the final resting place with a few frags already mounted. All the corals on the shelf was mostly dedicated to pnoyreefer's frags :) Ralph's idaho grape representin' too! All the pics...

yep, that's the same result I got in the initial stage. careful with the doses though, you want to find that happy medium where the tank balances itself. I've been tied up, and between not being able to log online and take pics, I was able to get through a couple of projects within the...