I upgraded my lighting to 3 175 watt Metal Halides and 2 160 watt VHO's I am running the VHO's for 8 hours and the Halides for 4 hours. I forsee a possible chiller by next summer or just cranking the AC.
Re: Bigman28's 135 Reef Looks like a great start for a nice reef system. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the pics.
Re: Bigman28's 135 Reef New additions. LTA and Clarkii clown from wholesale order. Sailfin Tang is camera shy. Green Tip Wall Hammer that I got from Sam.
Re: Bigman28's 135 Reef (update) My corals are beginning to show some real nice growth. There is nothing more satifying to me than a thriving captive reef system.
I see lots of growth in your frags since Amber and I were at your house in Dec. Some people hate the green star polyps (I believe that's what the big cluster was) but I like them. The hammer looks good and you SPS is taking right off. What caused the green algae on the glass though? Gonna be a gorgeous system when it grows up. Think when we upgrade it will be to a 135 also. Just don't have the dough right now at $319 plus $150 for the overflows and shipping from glasscage.
I am not sure what is causing it. I just do not clean that part of the glass so my grazers will have some natural occuring greens.
Very nice setup. It doesn't hurt to clean the glass, I clean mine everyday or 2, as you want the cleaning crew cleaning the rock and such. I use a magnafloat and just leave it in the tank at one end when done.
