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We are entering the season of bad weather and power outages. In fact we have already had one outage at our house. Luckily it only lasted for about an hour. My question is: what is everyone using for back-up power for your tanks? I have looked at many different UPS units, but it is hard it figure out which one will work best. How many watts of back-up power do we need? Our biggest tank needs to run a Mag5 for circulation. I would like for it to be able to run for several hours. The other tanks have much smaller pumps and would require smaller units. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I think rubbermaid makes plastic pond shells that are pretty cheap, but then after you are done your stuck with a pond. Koi?

We have all these things we never use sitting in a box. We would like to trade them to some one who uses them. We are looking for cool zoos, any euphyllia, leathers, chili coral, or any thing neat. We might even take a neat goby or smallish fish. Here is a list of what we have and the approximate volume.

Chemicals

Red sea

Marine succes PH Buffer 1/2 bottle

Green trace elements for marine algea full

Coral trace full bottle

Trace full bottle

Calcium plus three 1/2 bottle

Small dropper bottles

Iodine

Green

Trace

Strontium

Quick dip sticks for alk hardness and ph level

Sea chem coral disinfectant Full bottle

Carib sea phos buster 1/2 bottle

Sea test swing arm hydrometer

sea chem Phos guard

Chemi clean red slime remover 100ish gallons worth

Food:

Ocean nutrition formula one pellet 1/2 bottle

aquatrol spirulina 20 flakes 1/2 bottle

Omega one marine flakes full bottle

Our tanks already take all of our money and now they want the booze too! Completely unacceptable!

How did it go?

The Harlequin Shrimp are licking their tiny little lips!

I am glad to hear you went for it. You should post pictures when you are finished. I mounted the moonlights directly to the top of our canopy. It worked great. I see no reason to hang them unless you really want to. Our unshielded PC lights collect salt like crazy and the reflectors have tiny rust spots. If you are covering the HQI then you might as well cover the PC. IMO.

Darn it! Jennifer and I were just talking about doing the same thing. If we didn't have silly day jobs to support this hobby, then we would definitely go. I think the catching and releasing would be just as fun as bringing the stuff back. Although, if I caught a frogfish he would make the trip home. happy2.gif Maybe we can plan an ARC trip after the first of the year. Maybe we could even hit up some local aquariums.

Sounds fantastic. Sign language was my second language in college. I guess I will need to look up how to say "seahorse." Good luck with the move and congrats on the little girl. TSD is a fantastic school and the deaf community in Austin is super nice.

We have two nanos and they are awesome. I highly recommend www.nano-reef.com. That site has tons of information on nano tanks. If you plan on having high light corals check out www.nanotuners.com. They can stuff tons of light into tiny little boxes. Personally I think the NanoCube stand is expensive, especially the twisty one.

The tanks do run hot, but there are several passive chiller options and everyone seems to change the pumps for more flow(personal choice).

One of our nanos(12G nanocube) we run completely stock. It supports a clam, leathers grow like crazy, and oh yeah the seahorses love it. The other tank is an aquapod that I have modded. I added 20 extra watts of light(for a total of 74watts for 12 gallons), a MJ900, custom hood, cooling fans, and soon to be refugium. It is also doing very well.

They are fun, super clean, and who doesn't love a bow front.

Jennifer says you can rearrange them very easily.

Do it! There's nothin' you can't get into with a power drill, sawsall, and hammer. I think in canopy is a better look then a fixture. Plus women love a man with DIY skills!

You should try a Finnex tank http://www.finnex.net/pages/product/MTank.html

or an Oceani cube

Just bought a new tank. DARN. If you part out I would like the frogspawn, xenia, and maybe some zoos.

Good luck. We are preparing for a move, but we are taking the tanks with us. It is sad to see a good reef tank broken down. crybaby2.gif

Freakin sweet. You should post a video of these guys eating. blob7.gif

Thank you. These replies have given me some good ideas.

When I get the hood finished I will post pics

My girlfriend and I just got a 30 gallon Oceanic cube. We are having a canopy built that will house T5 lighting. We need suggestions for what to use as moon light. We have a coralife 1watt LED and love it. We were considering two 3/4 watt coralife LEDs for the new tank, because they would be easier to mount in the canopy then the 1 watt. We have also looked at the current lunar light. We would probably get the blue 2 LED version with one of the extensions.

Does anyone have experience with these lights or any other suggestions?

thank you