Blue Z Reef

You bought it from lewisriverfisherman at last meeting right? At the time I was like CRAP I wanted that lol! Idk if I have any frags you'd be interested in, only things I can really frag are zoas at the moment. You aren't by chance gonna be on this side of the river at oiab or something this week? Otherwise I could come snag from you as I can't make the meeting :-/

They seem to get slowly dimmer as they get up there in age (the bulbs that is). All I've ever noticed is one flickering for a minute or two then the bulb burnt out (was old...like 10-12 months). I doubt the ballast is having issues, these pfo ballasts are tanks.

I just revised my sump and could use some more, PM me your Paypal and ill take it

Flame hawks are cool but my clowns always had beef with him. Idk if its his colors or what? Cool fish otherwise and didn't cause any reef issues even with shrimp.

Looking for a phosban reactor on the cheap to mod, let me know if you have a spare. Have cash or frags.

woah thats cool! Didn't realize branching bubbles existed. Better pics of things when there open more would be nice

It's blue, looks pretty much like this http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd300/starrskinner/Drums/DrumPlastic2Bung.jpg

They make plastic food grade barrels in 35 gallon, which is what I have (closed top, 2 screw ports things on top). Since I have space I would rather have a 55 gallon if you want to buy one to trade me

How much did you pay to "rent" him? I almost want you to drop him in my tank for a few days first lol. May be hard to find and recover out of my 90 though....

Well if you rip it apart you can give me all your cool zoas lol! I hear ya with the small grain sand, I regret it in my cube, hard to keep flow rates up without starting sand storms. I would worry about getting this equipment: 2 part dosing, carbon/gfo reactor, ATO with 100 gallon RO/DI storage, efficient sump/ref before getting the flashy things like MP40's and LED's (well expensive ones anyway lol). Good luck, i've been slowly collecting gear over the years to make my way to where I want and i'm still looking for more

PM'd to get added to the list. Thanks!

Corn puffs is an interesting idea lol I wouldn't worry that much about other rock, apstaisa is easily handled with peppermint shrimp. I had some once, put in 5 shrimp, they were gone in less than a month with no return. If you think using all dead rock is going to produce some sterile environment, your wrong and things can still bloom and grow from single algae spores on new corals or from any outside water (lfs or other). I would use seeded but do whatever you think is best. The pukani looks like fun to shape from the BRS videos. What are your stocking plans for the tank?

I made some a while back from some "recipes" people had online with Portland cement and rock salt. They seemed to be ok but I've gotten rid of all them over time. They have potential to leach some bad stuff (forgetting exactly what...maybe it was lye or something in the Portland cement mix) over time. You also have to cure them in fresh water for a long time if you use salt to make porous, which is a pain unless you don't make much. Personally I'd keep my eye out for someone closing a tank down or something and try and snag a deal, not sure if I found the hassle to be worth it. There are also good deals on dry/dead rock all the time. I have some nice pieces to seed with if you go that route.

Might want to try 10% up per week...not a day, thats too fast. Dial them back a bid and see if you get any PE.

Saw this on CL, glad someone snagged it. You should definately put a clown and some gobies in there like on the website lol! (laugh) Will be cool to see it up and going!

Very clean setup, looks great!

What did red and green do that's so bad? Green is just for color usually, but red shouldn't hurt anything, I've read mixed things on needing red in the spectrum. I haven't noticed anything bad yet. The controllable unit is pretty cool, it ramps in 5% increments, not gradual, but the coral wont be effected by that. I think the ramping up and down is nicer while letting things adjust until you can just turn them all on and off together. Regardless of what you get, I'd get dimming so you can start your white channel off lower and get things adjusted up.

They are 90 degree but its layout is different with the controllable fixtures, they will likely have better spread.

Check out these: http://www.chesteraquaria.com/LED.html The one for $260 with 3 channel would be great for coverage. I want to do these on my 90 but waiting for my budget to build up again lol

I have my light on a 30 cube. Coverage isn't very wide due to optics and having it at water level (literally its like 1" off surface). Would have better coverage at about 8-10" but my hood won't allow it. This is why I was saying rapid kits and diys are nice. It's much easier to spread the light out for coverage. I'd say 2x2 is probably max for my fixture if elevated at 8". Less if lower. It's probably covering about 2/3 of my tank with high par light and the rest is lower. There is a similar fixture with the 4 disks inline that would help with spread more but they run about $275 iirc

I like my reefbreeders unit, but most all of these budget units are chinese made and come from the same factory. I found the same light for $25 less than I paid at $225 here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/120W-NOVA-A4-Full-Spectrum-LED-Aquarium-Light-48x3-BRIDGELUX-Coral-Reef-Dimmable-/290771643863?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43b3572dd7 Overall, you will be most happy if your fixture has royal blue (not just regular blue, makes the windex look ppl talk about) and a mix of colors (red's and UV's make things really pop). The rapidled kit lets you tune it to your personal color wants. I've seen noob's rapid also and like it too. Just do your reading on what people are actually using and getting growth with and don't impulse buy. So far i've been impressed with my fixture (high par tested) but i've only had it for like 2 months now, so not sure on reliability just yet. Warranties are nice, also something to consider.

That works for me, I work till 5, so can meet after that too. PM me specifics.

What would shipping be on the 2 reactors?

Can the hole be re-opened? What size bulkhead is it drilled for?