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  1. thinking about changing my lighting...

    Let me first start off by saying I have no living corals anymore. I had a bit of a temperature issue which has been resolved but I am also wondering since I had some issues keeping sps alive prior to the temp issue if my lights had something to do with it. I currently have no hair algae and tank parameters are within range.

    Anyway on to the reason for my topic. My wife has given me permission to purchase 2 ecotech radions XR30w pros. I hate the cost of them of them as we all do but ...
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    Questions - Need some input , ‎ Lighting , ‎ Equipment
  2. Complete tank restart and LED light upgrade

    As many of you know I had decided to do a restart on my tank and correct earlier mistakes/lack of knowledge from when I started my tank 2 years ago. Several of my corals were dead or dying and I had placed corals into my tank that I later realized was a mistake (Xenia, blue clove polyps, ect...) I looped my pump return from my sump back into my sump again, kept the skimmer running, maintained a constant temperature, maintained choeto in the refugium, and kept the biopellet reactor operational to ...

    Updated 12-02-2012 at 01:33 PM by melev

    Tags: DIY, led, restart
    Categories
    Tank Entry , ‎ Lighting , ‎ DIY projects
  3. Restart Update

    Well I thought I would give a quick update on what was going on with my tank restart.

    I ordered 50lbs of keylargo rock from Marco Rock that has arrived.

    I purchased a 10 gallon tank and filled it up to use as my frag tank, painted the back glass, made a frag rack out of light diffuser, installed a heater, 30 gallon rated biowheel, added a nano korelia, added led lighting, waited for the temperature to level out and started moving over frags. I did not cycle the tank though ...
    Tags: cleaning, DIY, led, restart
    Categories
    Tank Entry , ‎ DIY projects