Tigahboy Posted January 21, 2005 Author Share Posted January 21, 2005 haha...yeah. one benefit of using acrylic. there's gonna be lots of points of entry for circulation up in there. Link to comment
Maxvan1 Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 how deep do you think you will go with your sand? or will you go barebottom? are you going to move your livestock outa your other tank? Link to comment
reeferbarra20 Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 DELETED THIS FOR SUBZERO AND HIS BOYFRIEND ODOG Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 21, 2005 Author Share Posted January 21, 2005 I'll probably only have at most 1" of a sand bed. Link to comment
ccjung Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 umm.. Not a Nano... thanks.... just kidding tigah... What tigah hasnt told you guys is that hes been talking to me about doing a custom 12g DX. Tigah: Its time to officially rename this tank to 12g Nanocube DX with 87g sump... Chris Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 21, 2005 Author Share Posted January 21, 2005 Originally posted by ccjung umm.. Not a Nano... thanks.... just kidding tigah... What tigah hasnt told you guys is that hes been talking to me about doing a custom 12g DX. Tigah: Its time to officially rename this tank to 12g Nanocube DX with 87g sump... Chris haha. the idea of an acan/rare LPS only nanocube was tossed around. But I gotta at least get this beast finished first. =) Link to comment
Mai Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Originally posted by Tigahboy My lights have been shipped and are scheduled to arrive tomorrow! Big thanks to nanocustoms.com for placing the order for me! Check em out, ppl... And w/ 2x250w 20K and 2x39w 03 actinic T5's, it's gonna be like a rave party up in my tank! And I finalized the placement of the holes and such for closed loop and returns. Here's a very last minute crude diagram I sent over to socalcreations.com. It should be ready for pick-up this weekend. Tigahboy Where did you find those lights? They are exactly what I am looking for? Link to comment
bravoreefer Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Nano = J/J Wish I could build a tank that size, but the dorm life doesn't favor the large tanks like that. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 Mai - I got them from nanocustoms.com. Chris special ordered them for me since I was having a hard time finding them locally. Or you can contact aquamedic directly on their website and inquire where they sell em locally to you. bravoreefer - on RC they say 40g and below are nanos. =P hahah. and even tho this 67g aint a nano, you will have to suffer thru its presence here. hahah. =) j/k, bro. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 I received my lights today as promised! I'll take pics of them later. But I also received a pleasant surprise - my auto top-off kit from californiareefs.com (thanks cameron!) I won it in another forum's full tank shot contest. sweeeeet prize. =) Once I get my RO/DI unit all set-up, I'll have it feed water automatically w/ another float switch into the water reservoir and then the pump in the water reservoir will be hooked up to another float switch in my sump. which would then move fresh RO/DI water from the reservoir into my tank to make-up for evaporation. so completely automatic and will help to keep my salinity very stable. Here's a pic of the 2nd float switch which came w/ my RO/DI unit...water drops (bulbous end lowers), which then opens up the RO/DI to replenish water into water reservoir; water reaches desired level, the bulbous end floats up and then shuts off the RO/DI. Oh, and the RO/DI will be directly tapped into my cold water supply plumbing for my kitchen sink, so when I say "fully automatic" I really do mean FULLY automatic. haha. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 Very nice lights indeed. only 2 probs tho: 1. Aquamedic sent me the wrong mh bulbs...I wanted 20K's, but I got 10K's. will have to work that out. 2. The light is a lot heavier than I expected. Kind of concerned about having this hang from my ceiling. I'll have to look into the wall mounting kit soon. But other than that, i love these lights! =) Link to comment
Travis Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 Hey Tigah, waht dd are you going to do with your other lights? The 250w Over your tank now. Want to help me out and sell it to me for oooooooooo say $150? Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 Travis. The lights are already spoken for. A guy offered me $225 credit towards a custom stand. Link to comment
Sushi Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 keep the 10K's and supplement w/actinic, see how they look over ur 30g first...! if u think it's too white/yellow, then return em for the 20K's. since u do have actinics, i think you should give 10K's a shot since u have them rite now anyways Link to comment
Maxvan1 Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 yeah, see if you like em, how heavy is it? (aprox.?) Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 Yeah. I'll give it a shot. I was just worried that if I actually fired them up, they wouldn't take em back. hmmm...maybe it weigh 10lb? haha. not positive tho, not good w/ judging weight. Link to comment
Maxvan1 Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 how would they know if you fired them? Link to comment
The_Barbe-Hatten_Project Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 10 lbs is just a little more that a gallon jug of water weighs (like 8.2 lbs or some thing close to that, say 8lbs), for reference Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 I'm no light expert. so I don't know. haha. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Pics of my auto top-off w/ float switch in my other thread: http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...3002#post423002 Link to comment
badmatt Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 wow not to shabby doo im ordering the aqualite pro for my 50 when i geta job Link to comment
Shorty5198 Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Tigah that lighting system is sweet!!! same thing happend to me. I wanted a 20k and got a 10k. I fired it up to see how it looked and i didn't like it. I called them and they said i could return it if it hasn't been used. oooops kinda missed that part and told them no. lol. Haven't heard from'm since. Link to comment
Tigahboy Posted January 25, 2005 Author Share Posted January 25, 2005 Hey Shorty. what brand of light was it? Was it Aqualine 10K? Link to comment
Shorty5198 Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Sure was. It was awful. Way too yellow/white. I just called them up and they charged me for the 20k ushio they were sending me and i would get credited back when they recieved the 10k back from me. Link to comment
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