Happy Holidays! LOL I just love being able to raise them up and do this... And...... Yeah.... Shes on cruze control now.... I can pretty much just sit back and play!
Figured I would throw up a pic of the tank. Its been a min. The change from softies to SPS is going well to only be in the first couple of months.. I cant wait to see the before and afters this time next year!
400w'ers.... Single Ended... Going with a 20k Reeflux bulb I think, Should give me the color I want and the in going to a 400 from a 250 I should still get really good growth. Help! I have fallen and cant get up! And if you havent done so and you use facebook... Please go to https://www.facebook.com/Reefcavesite and like my page... You will find all kinds of information and pictures and just all kinds of cool stuff to keep those boring times interesting!
Thanks Mann and Angela for letting me visit today. The tank shows amazing growth and is just beautiful. Loved the blue acro as well as everthing in your tank. Greg
Any time Greg! I always have an open door to members and others that want the tour or just to pop in and take a peek... Glad to have you over and for the gift! I have had to duck tape the lid down to keep myself out!...LOL
On one of my tanks, I used 400 watt MH on each end. It seems harder to get good lighting on the ends of tghe tanks. I used two 250 in the middle, and you could not see a wattage difference across the tank. Just a thought. The bulbs in the fixtures you got from me should be Reeflux 14,000K I believe. They really make colors pop, and had excellent growth. I always thought the 20,000ks are too blue.
I am going to have 3 400w's over this tank before its all said and done.... I am going to take one of the pendants I have and use it.... I am prolly going to put a 10k in the middle one and run it for only a few hours a day compaired to the other two. This tank is only 60" long so its not hard to light. The bulbs in the pendants I got from you are 12ks.. I have thought about the 14ks but I still think they are yellow... They are what I am currently running... Its just still too much for me... I like the dark light, the Blue, ... I never can get that color without going to a 20k even by supplementing. The woman of the house likes the blue too and she is kinda the shot caller on what it should look like, I just make all of it work...LOL
I have a brand new Blueline ballast from Champion lighting if your interested. It is also 400 watts. I have two other used ones of the same make. I also have two 250 watt Blue line ballasts (used as well). Those work well over frag tanks. I used to have the same Kelvin bulbs over my frag tanks as the main display tank. That way it did not disrupt what they where already used to.
Light change.... These are untouched, not cleaned up, just strait out of the camera and I didnt try to get any super shots... just looking for the difference.
and may our energy bill increase! jk... maybe I should try to manifest the opposite... now would be the time to try some witchery. lol *--------------- Oh, and Greg, thanks again for the cake balls!  Yours are SO much better than mine!
Or go out and beat the hell out of the meter until it stops for a little bit...  Its what my step dad used to do, and then gripe at my mom when she came home and turned on the washer that would set it spinning again...LOL
Or go out and beat the hell out of the meter until it stops for a little bit...  Its what my step dad used to do, and then gripe at my mom when she came home and turned on the washer that would set it spinning again...LOL[/quote:2qjkm4f5] UM, NO. lol.... Karma would kick our asses.  Now it makes sense now why years ago I would listen to certain people talk about their 3-400$ entergy bill... I thought, "how the hell?!?!?" Now i know..... *le sigh*