Folks, if you've recently upgraded or renewed your annual club membership but it's still not active, please reach out to the BOD or a moderator. The PayPal system has a slight bug which it doesn't allow it to activate the account on it's own.
You can send the file (large) to photos@njreefers.org. We'll resize it so that we have a small version for the contest page and a bigger version to link to so that people can see the detail of the image they're voting for in high resolution.
You could also link us to a file you've uploaded...
IRFanView: will resize & crop. Easy to use tool. Free.
Shutterfly: website, can be used to store and share photos. The pictures on there can be resized and cropped.
You're better off shortening the cycle, going 1/2 bulbs longer and all bulbs shorter or putting some mesh screen on the tank. Your corals/fish won't like the on/off thing too much. Occasional "cloud cover" isn't a bad thing, but you aren't going to want to thrust them into night time too often...
Trates are high, PO4 is probably inaccurate (nobody has zero...). Mag could come up a hair. Everything else looks perfect though so apart from an increase in your WC schedule (or a nitrate reactor), I'd stick with what you're doing. How's your polyp extension?
Bob, I can't help you on the wood floors, but I CAN help with that canopy. It is a stock oceanic canopy. We had a PC light fixture that fit in there well over top of glass tops, but it is NO WAY tall enough for halides. The inner dimension of the usable canopy space was like 5.75" (there are 2...
I don't know but Sinkingbeach has one. It was sold to him as a green bubble tip, and it does bubble... but I've NEVER seen a bubbble tip that had tips like that. I say it is something else, but I've never gotten an ID on it.
When we were looking at getting about 1000sqft of our basement finished it was going to cost us about 15-25K to have it done by someone else (when I figure we can do it ourselves for 5K). Needless to say we didn't have it done!
Looks like since the studding is already in place for you, you'd...