work in progress...always...40g shorty

[Redeye]

I usally call it my tidepool tank, top of tank is 32" off ground

40~g with 2 seperated sections, 1 is my DSB miracle mud fuge, with tons of macro, and a sexy dancer shrimp, other is my filtration/rubble/ hospital section. I keep my rubble for frags, skimmer, heater, injured fish, and 1 return pump in the filter side. the tank is very yellow, due to the 6700k bulb I have been running (never again) Tank started as an experiment after reading Fenners "Marine Invert" book, been running over a year now, and I know I need more LR and more corals:P

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[Redeye]

Vinny's silver Xenia has yet to fully extend for me in this tank, it loved my other tank, but other tank has to much flow for it now

[Nick_Kun]

i always loved this tank eversince I picked up those moon lights at your house. lookin good man.

-nick

[Redeye]

I think the next step for this tank is swapping the 196w PC fixture for a 4-6 bulb t5 fixture

a canopy would look wierd on such a short tank, so complete fixture is only real option, atleast in my old apartment

[Nick_Kun]

you should be fine with a 2 tub 5t HO fixture, as long as it has individual reflectors.

[Redeye]

do the tek fixtures have individual?
was thinking 4, so I can use acouple actinics for a good color mix, a mid-day, and a 10k
like I said "in the future" a distant one:)

[DaChrisDude]

That's sweet! The tank is so unique having the seperated areas on each end, very cool, I like it!

Did you have it custom ordered that way?

Tank looks very nice. You'll love the T5's if/when you get them.

[Nick_Kun]

yeap, tek fixtures comes with individual reflectors. You can get 4, but your tank too shallow so you softies might now like the huge amount of light. That's like a running 250W HQI above your tank with the 4 bulb setup.

- Nick


do the tek fixtures have individual?
was thinking 4, so I can use acouple actinics for a good color mix, a mid-day, and a 10k
like I said "in the future" a distant one:)

[Redeye]

oh, the softies will be gone at that point, just clams and sps, with afew LPS mixed in for flavor

thats if I ever save enough money to get that tek fixture:)

[bgoode]

I like what you've done with it. I have always thought that tank would make a good reef tank because of its size.

[Redeye]

My boss made it for keeping feeder fish, the sections on either side were filled with mini bio-balls, and have 2-piece trickle plates that I can drop on some thin acrylic rails, incase I want to put some prefilter floss on there for water polishing

Like I said, it was an experiment

Brian, you might remember missy and I argueing over it back when Wcai closed
Har, I win:P