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Sorry So Long
My tank is is 20" Tall 18" wide and 60" long. I was told it held about 120g. I have had it for about 3 months now. I have 150# of southdown sand,
crushed coral, live sand, cruched oyster shells, and about 3 bags of the blue grean and aqua fake fresh water stone all mixed up as my substrate. It is 2" deep in front to 6" deep in back. I have 2 hagen 802 powerheads. A Magfloat.
100# of homemade live(but dead) rock. I have about 33# of live rock. I plan on adding another 20# or so this weekend. I have 1 blue/yellow tail damsel. I know, but he seems verry well manered and docile and I just don't have the hart to get rid of him. I have a Yellow tang about 4". I Have a 5" Fox Face. Surprisingly the foxface and tang are real good buddies.
side note I love the fox face, at night when I turn the lights out he will snuggle up close to one of the rocks and change colors to blend in with the rock! Also he will put his nose up and just barely move his side fins, sorta hover.
Anyway I digress. 22 snails. need more. 10 crabs. need more. 1 serpant star(hitched a ride with the live rock). I also have 1 Hippopus Clam. 1 Button Pollup. 1 Xenia Colony. Lastly 1 Zoanthid Colony. Oh 10g sump with skimmer Using one of those Beckett waterfall pumps from lowes as return pump. using kalkwaser, carbon, phosban, totalreef. ph 8.4 am 0 ni >0 NA >0 I have speriodic deitrious outbreaks. Dont know if its the lights or not. I know They are not helping. The tang and foxface have really big bellies{;<) Plan on getting about 40 more snails and 50 more crabs. maybe this weekend. Eventually going to add a Fuge with sandbed, Mangroves, shrimp, maybe a seahorse after its real stable. Only if I can find a tank raised one.
I had this tank given to me. It had set out in a garage for 3 or 4 years and was fixin to be thrown out because the cabinet was rotten. Rebuilt the cabinet. I have been getting by with 3 metal halide 100w lights. really yellow no color to any of the corals or clam. SOooooooooooooooooooooooo wife has fell in love with foxface and nemo movie. she wants a clown fish. I told her I had to have better lights before I bought nemo or the clown fish would die{:<)
Hellolights shipped today
2 x 96w cf ballast & 2 x actinic square pin bulbs
2 x 250w MH Ballast & 2 x 20,000k XM Bulbs
2 x
Mogul sockets with Bracket
2 x 4.5" fans
60" Reflector
All the cords clips etc.
Now my questions{:
Right now the 100w MH's are mounted in a oak canopy that realy needs replaced. It is only 5" high and the lights are only about 4 " from the water. I know saftey hazard. OK. Should I build a new oak canopy. If I did, in able to have the lights 10" off of the water were talking about maybe a 15" or 16" canopy. If so where is the best place to put the fans? I am HVACR certified, however I run powerplants so I am a bit rusty on the application. I can see the benefit of having the fans Blowing cold air in and having a oak floor register or maybe 2 in the top to let the hot air out. But I can see the advantage of having the Fans Draw the Hot air out and the cold air in through the top.
I Also have Flirted with the Idea Of building my own little AZO light like setup. I have access to a Metal Brake(bends metal). I could verry easily build a 60" long metal hanging Pendant.
On the same Note I could build an Oak Hanging Pendant as well. It would match the Cabinet the Aquarium sits on. I need input. Please help me out. Thanks, Clay.
