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Kristophers Fluval Spec V


krisko

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My spec V has been up and running for 6 months. The live rock, sand and fish were transplanted from another tank a friend of mine lost interest in.


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My current setup:

 

-Mini Jet 606

-2 panorama pro's magenta/blue and white/blue

-One touch panorama controller (dusk to dawn and cloud cover simulation)

- Eco Pico Live rock

- 1 purple firefish

- 1 hammer coral

- 1 snowflake coral

- Green rickys

- GSP

- snails and clean up crew

 

 

I made a custom light mount that replicated the orginal stock light.

 

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I love the tank its so easy to maintain, I have been doing gallon water changes weekly and everything is thriving! My Rickys and Zoa's have tripled in size in the past month. I purchased them as tiny frags. I have coralline algae starting to grow on my back wall. I have some hitch hicker star fish that are spreading in my tank so far they haven’t touch my corals so I'm letting them stay. I have tiny feather dusters growing everywhere. The firefish would hide all day in the tank that I transplanted him from and for the past 3 years we hardly saw him, now he spends most of the day in the open.

 

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Here is the tank during the first couple weeks.

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That light fixture is a piece of raw steel I bought at Lowes I'm sure any home improvement store will have it, It was next to the rebar. They also have aluminum, I was doing a strength test and I don't think the aluminum would be able to hold the weight of the lights. I wish I could remember the dimensions of the piece I got I believe its 2 inch's wide not sure how thick. The size I found was almost identical to the stock light fixture. You bend the steel with your hands its not to hard if you have a long enough piece. Once I got my bend in I cut it down to size with a hand disc grinder that I had bought from walmart for $20 bucks. Don't forget to cut the groove out so it can attach to the back of the tank like the stock fixture. I drilled a hole right in the bend so I could run the wires through. Use the stock fixture as a template all your really doing is making the same thing but with a longer neck. Make sure you paint it, unless you like the rust look.

 

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