the tunze 9002 DOC is a A+ skimmer i am the kind of person if my skimmer work well theres no point introducing one that i might have to fool with. as for the noise from the Aqua C isnt bad but i only run my skimmer at night from 9pm to 9am (reverse from my photo period) and i only feed my tank once a week some reef chili for the zoas and make sure to repenish my Mg and iodine with a little coral vite because mineral loss from the skimmer and do 2.5 gallon water change every saturday

I just ordered a Giesemann Megachrome Blue 21K 150watt HQI bulb and i am totally stoked for all the research i have done they are supposed to be the best quilty bulb out there and the crispness and brightness of the blue spectrum is unparalled. so i will post pics after it has significant to burn in and stablize the color spectrum

i think i am going to get rid of the four koralias nanos and get some Tunze Turbelle's NanoStreams

Sweet efflo I have been looking for that for a LONG time!

Thanks it took me almost a month to find this one it was a bit pricey but you get what you pay for i know the person i got it from still has two more of them in his tank i just got back from his place today anf they were still in there

Well i have put in a few things since my last up date i have a New Giesemann Megachrome bulb 20K bulb and few new corals

I need some coral suggestions on what to get next i have quite a few SPS corals and a couple large zoa colonies which i think i might get rid of and just dont know what to get next. i dont want any soft corals or mushroom/ric so i guess i am left with LPS what would be a great dendros? or blasto? or What?


Cheers
Scott

Those frags are all awsome. I will be looking for nice SPS in a few months after I get my aquapod 24 fully operational again. I'm currently getting rid of all my SPS so I can have a succesful tank swap. Have a good trip and hope everything is still doing s good as it looks now when you get back.

well over the weekend i was taking some underwater pictures of a few of my corals

Looks great!!! How about a few acans??

I am looking into getting some LPS I told the guy at the LFS to get some chalices and some acans in so i will see wendsday (the day they get new stock) if i want to get some from him. do you have any acdans you want to trade i got a lot of stuff

I have an nice blue/red and a purple and green but i noly have 1 headed frags of each. Also i have never shipped before.

well as long as you know how to pack and ship corals it not that big of a deal you got to start sometime. are you looking for anything in particular either color or type?

Not really. I dont really have the money to even ship out the package right now. I just bought a few corals and replacement bulbs and a thing of salt mix. Maby in a month or so?

hey thats cool my corals not going anywhere

If oyu check out my thread you can see one of my acans on the bottom right. I just updated it earlier.

i forgot a pic. on a side not i have for frags from my mother colony

Beautiful! Also Scotty, where are you located?

thanks i am going to start frag up some of my larger coloines to make room for more stuff. so i will post pics of frags soon

cheers
scott

very beautiful scott! this tank gets better and better

Well my main 90 gallon show tank is in Northern Cali but what you see on this thread is with me is in Huntington, West Virginia while i am here for busniess until late Nov then it all gets shipped back to california and imagine there will so killer deals on stuff i dont weant to ship back



thank you very much

well its time to either buy more corals or a new tank system. my boss brought me in to his office today told me to sit down and he gave me a huge promotion raising my salary almost 30K a year. i am at a loss for words. So i am think of getting a new custom made glass tank i just now need to find a good design and a builder

Wow congrats, that will make reefing even more fun!

He must not know how much you use the internet lol j/k!

congrats man!...what do you do for a living (if you dont mind sharing)? sick tank too, we might have to trade some frags sometime!

ha your right i am on here way too much. Well he told me tha main reason i got the new title and job is that during the last fiscal year. myself and a few other of my colleagues saved AEP almost 37 millon in company profits by engineering new ways to automate and reduce industrial mercury emissions

I am now a Project Manager for Environmental Projects for AEP i presonally am a Automation and Controls Engineer. hey jump on the band wagon i need more good engineers

haha thats cool man...I"m not an engineer though...I'm a Chem/Bio dual major :-/

Awesome, I love eating seafood but hate the thought of mercury poisoning, thank you for reducing it!

your welcome i just actully built and designed a system that controls the heat ratio and injects Carbon Dioxide to drop out the mercury for collection and dispossal and it also recaptures the carbon dioxide so it wont go into the atomosphrere. its only in one one piolt plant but it will take out about 4 tons of mercury a year if implemeted in all company plants (about 60 nation wide)

I feel weird and sad when I eat clams these days, even though they are only the steamer/cleaner variety... I LOVE seafood too though, lol!

Looking good Scotty!

Well Here is a SPS Coral List As of 8-11-08

2-purple bonsai Acropora
2-Bali Green Slimmer Staghorn
ORA Blue Millipora
Acropora Loripes
Blue Slimmer Staghorn
2- Larry Jackson Tri Color
2- ORA Chips Acro
ORA Montipora Spongodes green/green
ORA Montipora Spongodes green/purple
Purple cap
orange cap
reverse pokerstar monti
Montipora Undata
Alexander the Grape Montipora Cap
strawberry fields montipora
ORA Tri-Color Valida
Oregon blue tort
cali blue tort
Acropora Efflorescens
Greg Hillar Aqua Delight Acropora
Eddie Bauer Acropora vermiculata
Green with purple tip long stalk acro
Acropora Tenuis pink with purple tips
Blue with green polyps Millipora
German Blue polyp digitata
Ultimate Blue Staghorn Acropora
Raspberry Blueberry Tip Acropora Prostrata
Jolly Green Giant Acropra Aculeus
30,000 Leagues Acropora Lokani
Purple Pucker Acropora Tort
Pink Panther Acropora Cerealis

Thats a nice and big list!

Thanks i actully have two more but i dont know what they are so they are off the list just in case i name it something and someone calls me out hahaha

any issues w/ micro bubble?
are u running or plan to use skimmer?

i seen on their website they have lights that sit onto the ank.

i run two skimmers one tunze 9002 doc with makes no micro bubble and i love and a back up in case the other one goes out for some reason a Aqua C ramora which does make some bubble but i have a reducing pad to limit the amount that would get into the tank. i bought the NO-T5 lights and i didnt use them because i want a HQI light on my tank so i could keep SPS corals. you can use HO-T5 lights but i prefer the look and the growth that come from hqi lighting ( my light hangs from the ceiling)

Beautiful tank - don't know how I didn't stumble across this thread sooner! Let's see an updated FTS

Thank You the FTS will have to wait i had to send my new camera back to Canon because it stoped working but i will find my wifes camera and take one or i wil use i iphone tonight to give a update

cheers

How does the tunze work? Is it a submerge drop down?
By odd chance, u happen to have pics of it?

It fits easily in the back chambers?

Thanks.

heres how the tunze 9002 doc works you just adjust the tumb screw to control the foaming action



there is more than enough room in my tank for the skimmer to fit sidways but it is just a hair to tight to fit it in straight on



cheers

Your tank will be my tank's idol. lol

Right now I'm thinking of using the CADLIGHT's SKIMMER, but might just get the Tunze in there. What do you think?
They said it's pretty good. But I might get the Tunze, so I dunno. hmm.
In terms of chemical media, is it holding up well? I'm sure your params are on point seeing u have 2 skimmers.

I love that green bali slimer? Awesome.

well i test calcium every other day and i check kh, ph, ammoina and nitrates bi weekly unless i see something wrong . for chemical media i have purgien, chemi pure elite and sea gel. i think the mix of these three guys works well it keep my water clean and my phospates down. i change them out every three months.
i dont know much about the cadlight skimmer it might work great or it might not but aslong as you get a good dry to mildly wet skim and the bubble concentrsation keeps small it should work well. the one problem i have with cadlights items such as light and pump is they arnt the best qaulity. the pump my tank came with was a off brand and broke in a month and so were the lights they just had the cad plauqe on them but they are just a cheap chinese light ( keep in mind the lights i got from them were just the low No output light that i was never going to use). I love my tank shape and the size of the tank the fuge i could ask for a better looking tank.

thank you i it is my favortive coral and it grows like a weed

I just got done doing some tank cleaning i and i found about 6 blue clove polys that hitched on a sps colony of mine. I will try to get some pics soon but my camera is still at canon because it broke. so cool free corals

well this weekend i am getting my first Acans colonies i really wish they wernt so freak'n pricey they make most of my SPS corals look cheap

Cant wait for some pics! I love acans

I cant wait for my camera to get back from Canon. well since in dont have a camera to show what i got over that last few weeks i will give a brief discription of what i got new in the wonderful world of My CADlights 22.

I got four great acans from Zoanuts Bag O' Crap sale The are very pretty i am very happy with my purchace from them i am not so good at discribing things but there were well worth the $155 i spent on them.

I got a Large colony of high end polys the best way i can what they look like is a Pink Version Of PPE they have bright green mouths and green skirts there is about 50 on the rock there were also about four other morphs one was Armor of the gods the other three looks like Pink Zoot Suit,Pucker Pink and Nuclear Sunset's

I also got SPS frags of reefermadness blue prostrata and Blue tip Purple slimer

I am hoping my camera will get back to me this week

well i got my camera back tonight so tommarrow New PICS!!!!! I also today a very large Shawn Bennett Yellow Tort ( this bugger would retail for well over $300 and i got it for $90)

PHOTO UPDATE it has been quite a while since i did a tank update so here are a few pic i just took before my lights went out for the night

Everything looks great...NICE Spon-go-deez!

Wowza, look at those colors...

Thank you very much ladies. i try my best to keep my tank a lovely as you your tanks

I was going through some of my photo albums on my computer and i came a cross my Bali Green slimer when i first bought in on June 1 so i decided to post a growth before and after pic. This thing has grown like a weed

BEFORE 6-1-08

AFTER 9-15-08