olaggie01

I've been approached by one company that did it but never did a show on it. What type of pests are you trying to remove? Mostly aiptasia. I have way to many for joes juice or a similar product. I'll take a picture and post it.

Any thoughts about doing a show on the use of lasers to remove pests? If you want to use a tank, I've got a tank full of aiptasia. Chris

I have one that I'd part with. Has a heater, mag float, and Aquamedic 150w MH (with a 14k phoenix bulb I think). I'll be back on Thursday. $150. Located in Georgetown.

I'll take the reactor. I'll send a PM as well.

Wish I would have seen this before Saturday AM, I could have brought you some before the RCA event. Good luck building today.

Let me know if Chris doesn't want the duncans.

Been working diligently on getting my PO4 in check. Got a new skimmer pump, removed all the sandbed, sucked out all the detritus in the sump, etc. Also started biopellets and VSV again. I have been reading about lanthanum chloride dosing and PO4 reduction. It really works. I'm amazed. Tested my PO4 this am after my 2nd dose of LaCl3 and it is now .03. That's after 2 diluted doses of LaCl3 at 2.5 ml / L for 150 gallons. I'm still quite impressed. In 3 days it brought my PO4 down to .03 from .49 after 2 doses. I'll keep an eye on it, because I'm sure I'll have some PO4 leaching from my LR, but I don't mind another dose or two. The biopellets and GFO should help as well. I am about finished with my LED fixture. I re-did the lights and added 4 LED spot lights (2 PAR38 and 2 PAR30). I'll post some updated pictures once I get the rest of the parts to complete the fixture. I have been adding zoas and LPS again now that my PO4 is going down. I'll order a box of SPS in a few weeks after the holidays.

Looks great Richard. Good meeting you the other day. Those zoas look great. The tank has a lot of movement from the mp60s.

Will do. I'll test it in another day or so when I get home.

Yeah, currently running BPs. Just started about a week ago. I'm sure that has helped lower my PO4. I didn't have much more than 1.5" of sand, but it still got nasty.

Well, removing that phosphate trap of a sandbed really helped my PO4 levels. I'm down from 1.68 to .58 in a little more than a week. Hopefully I can get it down to less than .1 and then I'll start getting more corals.

That's just the par 30 / par 38 spots. I haven't added the other three modules yet. Probably get around to it this weekend.

My wife never cared either way, or even about the tank actually. I should have trusted my instincts and gone bb the whole time.

Had a huge PO4 problem and I think that a lot of it was due to the sandbed and dead clean up crew. I lost a lot of my reefcleaners order and my PO4 level went up to 1.71 measured on a hanna meter. Started to run biopellets and sucked out all the sand in the tank. Amazed at how nasty the water and crud that came out of the sand. I will never run another sandbed. On the way to recover though.

Thanks Tommy. I finally have an update worth posting about. Since I have had this tank setup, I never liked the way the lights were hanging from the ceiling. I looked online and started to sketch out some ideas. I finally figured that I could use tighter optics and get some spot lights (par 30 / 38) and move the lights up to the ceiling inside a wooden box (for a lack of a better word). Here is what it looked like before: I got some extra knotty alder from the stand builder (thanks Andy) and built a box (24.5" x 30.5"). The thought was to have the long side facing the front but as it turns out, the rails that I had were just a touch too wide for the short side. Oh well. Plus the stain that I used didn't pull in enough dark color to match the stand. Live and learn. Doesn't look too bad. I will continue to use the 3 modules that I had built for the tank, but I bought 2 boostLED par30s and 2 exotic LED par38s to supplement the modules. These spotlights are all blue as I felt like the old tank had a little too much white, even though I could adjust the white/blue ratio, it still was too white. These 4 supplemental lights are very nice and put out a lot of blue. These pictures are with the spotlights on. I haven't put the modules back up in the fixture yet as I need to beef up part of the rail to be on the safe side and I'm leaving this afternoon so it will have to wait till the weekend.

Looks great. How big of a tank will this cover? How far off the water will the LEDs sit? You may not need the acrylic shield if it is not close to the water.

Tank is moving along. Had a lot of ups and downs. Mostly downs unfortunately. Our city water has a lot of chloramine, which I was unaware of until recently so I've been battling high phosphates. I removed 90% of the sand (never liked the look anyways) and am starting to do every 3 day water changes to get the PO4 to a normal level. Was also battling a leaking sump. Both of the plastic Temco sumps would bow when I put water in them so I was never able to get a good seal on my return pump. Finally got a new acrylic sump, so that fixed that problem. Got the skin finished and it does look great and cuts down on a lot of the noise from the tank. I want to add some dynamat to help get the noise lower. Here are some pictures from my iphone. Not the best, but they will do. Stand is knotty alder stained to match our doors in our house On either side of the stand is a bookshelf with a false back, the left side has the electronics, and the right has my ATO tank. ATO side New sump

Looking for a sump or someone who can build one. Dimensions would be around 24x24x15. Let me know if you know anyone that can start on it this weekend. My current sump is leaking and I need to replace it.

Definitely want to see a picture of the smoker. Hope it has wheels on it.

Whoop! Wife and I are '01 and she continued at A&M Med School, class of '05. Her parents still live there, so we visit several times per year. Sure has changed a lot in recent years. No longer a small town.

Hey Ron, Text me. I have a buddy that built mine along with our fence. Very solid welder and a great guy. Reasonable as well. Chris

Hey Mike, Interested in the new ballast. Do you still have it? Also, is this the 250/400w version?

Does it work?

Anyone have any other suggestions?

Interested as well, phyto plus any brine you might have for sale.