I've used just about everything on the market over the years and I prefer Red Sea Salt not the Red Sea Coral Pro , just the regular Red Sea Salt works best for me .

MAJOR BUMMER TODAY...........My wife woke me in a panic Tuesday morning telling me the Butterfly tank water was freezing . I ran down to the basement to find that the heater had stoped working and temp droped from 79 degrees to 70 degrees . I broke out my emergency heater and called in for a vacation day at work . Next step was to slowly raise temp back up to normal... very slowly . All fish looked good except for my prize Red Sea Golden Butterfly . He was having a hard time swiming and his color was washed out . He was still eating but breathing heavy . This morning he looked a little better , but not right . On my way home my wife called me on my cell , she said she just got home from work and the Golden Butterfly was dead , but all the other fish were doing fine . Now everything is back to normal but I lost my favorite fish , he couldn't handle the temp swing .
RIP Golden Boy .

still in progress....

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I don't know if this has been hit on in this forum or not, but is a tek 4-bulb fixture enough to light a 40B for a mixed reef? Basically, I want to know if it would be able to sustain a limited number of SPS corals kept high in the water column. Thanks.

I have the Nova Extreme 4 bulbs t-5 fixture. Its PAR is lower than that of the Tek and my clam is doing pretty good.

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this pic is from about a month ago...a lot different now, much more growth n corals.
waiting for it to look superb nad a new camera so i can post a beautiful update on my build thread. but heres just a lil shot.

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I wish it wasn't so hard to find all the 40's on here. Can someone set up a web site for just 40's. "www.supercool40breederclub.saltwater" .

my brother does web design, that would be a sweet site!! but i would then have to give him money for it

Some brother. Tell him he could be famous and he has to do is put about 1000 hours week to keep the site up a runnin. We could pay him in frags.

lots of new 40s around here, let's see some pics!!!!

I wanted to be one of the cool kids, so I bought one today, lol.

what, what, what? i thought all the cool kids hung out in the lounge and didn't even have tanks....

I dunno, the people in the lounge are losers and stuff.

lol

Now I haz my 40br.

Nice looking tank .....how are you liking the single vortech ? And what model are you running ?

Thanks. I'm loving the vortech, it's a 20. Right now it's set to Reef Crest mode and maybe 50% power, as the corals are still adjusting. I plan on slowly speeding it up though. Plenty of flow along with the two AC filters.

oh noes a tang in a 40br!?

btw I might be getting a 40/50br soon I'm thinking of creating a website just for it and having a live webcam while the lights are on in the tank

here's mine. No overflow yet, saving that for the big reef tank I want to build plus I am afraid of the sump or tank overflowing in the case of a power outage.

can i put my 40b missing a few inches of height in here?????

sure

Ok missing few inches height lol

Thought I would add mine. Obviously not the best, but I like it so far. Still much more to be added over the months.

saw this 40 breeder thread and new i had to join the site.lol. here is mine around 4-5 months ago when i had t5s






ill have to add updated pics of it soon it now has 2 175 halides and i had to completely break it down and move. mostly full of sps and lps now.

Here's mine been set up for 6 months just recently had all the stuff transferred from the 30 over to it so really it was just sand rock and a few fish for 5 months. But whatever here's a pic.

Hey guy's I'm new to Nano Forum's, as well as the Reef keeping hobby altogether. I bought this tank about two weeks ago, and the part's are slowly starting to arrive.

Thing's I have:

Tank
Stand Framed
29 gallon tank (sump)
10x 24" t-5's 14 watt's a piece (5x 10k- 5x 430 actinic, bought for 4$ a piece they will come in use???)
400w MH retro kit
5x 3/4" bulkhead's (closed loop and returns from sump)
All kinds of plumbing supplies left over from 125 FW tank build
Loc-line for returns
Home made ABS Overflow (thanks for the idea Stoney)

Thing's I need:

Skimmer (thinking vertex or octo 100)
Closed Loop Pump
Canopy
1" bulkhead for durso stand pipe in overflow
Fuge light
RO system (I've put the one off for too long and my 10g nano is sufferering because of it)
Money to get all of the "Thing's I Need" list


Here's a few pic's of the progress so far.

Tank:


Stand Framework:


Overflow:



Hoping the CORRECT size bit comes today, recieved the wrong one from an ebay seller last week and this one is taking forever to arrive...

here is a pic of mine finally getting there...

That tank is AMAZING!

As of yesterday, I can officially join the club!!!

Time for an update.......Before Vortech and After Vortech

Holy Montipora Batman!!!!! That is awesome looking!

-Prof

Thanks.alot more room now for the monti's to spread out .

Bump?

Bump

Bump. Where de breeders at?

Nice looking tanks. I plan to start cycling mine this weekend.

Heres mine.



Awesome FTS huh?

Mine's still cycling, pretty sure no one wants to look at some sand and a couple pieces of liverock. If I'm wrong, let me know, haha.

You're wrong.

Haha, here you go then:

My money pit.

What the heck is a breeder. Here goes my 40 regular

damn, this tank is nice....

can any one please tell me whats the size is that ? length, height and width ?

Thanks!
Jake

40B's are 36" long x 16" tall x 18" front to back

Just noticed I never added to this thread.

My future 40B

Link in sig

Let me add my 40 Breeder

I can play nowwwww

Its obv in is infancy, no corals yet and now has poweheads and some of the rock work was tweeked a bit.