Christian

Well I'm looking to set up sps domant aquarium and I've seep people running phosphate reactor and carbon reactors and calcium reactors on their tanks. But I don't know much about them or witch one I need to run on my tank.

What is the difference between a PhosBan Reactor and a carbon reactor?

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I have a 40 gallon new for $1 a gallon so $40 i live in buda

Ive got fuzzy mushrooms thst get about 5 to 6 inches across their green

Ok ill keepit in mind

I'll be selling my 150 tall pretty soon, don't know when you're planning on doing this, I'm going to sell the tank and stand, so all you would have to get is the equipment.

What are the dimentions?

Yeah i know they use pvc for odd shaped tanks because its stronger. But im not sure ill have to look into it.

I dont think they would like me cuting a hole in our new roof. I can get a way with runing a small hole for wires and cocking the whole but cuting a major hole that would not be good

What are solar tubes?

Yeah my fence,my mom and sisiter and I are geting a house together so i figure i would keep the cost of doing the lighting for the tank to a small amount. Lol

Sounds cool. Let me know if you need some help. Measuring is a little tricky if you've never built a tank.

I plan on useing this on the aquarium room for the power suply system. http://m.homedepot.com/p/Grape-Solar-200-Watt-Off-Grid-Solar-Panel-Kit-GS-200-KIT/203505912?cm_mmc=SEM&cm_mmc=SEM&cm_mmc=SEM&cm_mmc=SEM&cm_mmc=SEM&cm_mmc=SEM&cm_mmc=SEM&cm_mmc=SEM&cm_mmc=SEM&cm_mmc=SEM&cm_mmc=SEM&gclid=CJjnqtSgxMACFce_7AoddDAACw&gclsrc=ds

Yeah that sounds good Ill defently need the help building a good one once I move were still doing paper work right now but hopefuly soon we should be all good to move. I curently have 57 aquariums from 55 to 10 gallon sizes but i need a big one to put as my desply system. I want this tank to be amazing. Im going to put into a closet that opens up to our sitting area up stairs. Im thinking about doing a full blown SPS system with MH lighting apex system and a sump thatbis about 75-100 gallons. Since it is on the second floor is run the intire closet/room off of a solar power system that will store electrictiy into batters in the atic. That way im only going to be paying fot up keep and water.

I live in kyle right now but am moving to buda soon

Yeah I like the deepth of my sea clear 2 systwm its 24" tall much more and you cant reach the bottom. I want the tank to look like a living picture in my wall. So 24-29" is a good hight.

I got a price from nextreef systems for 2k for the tank and euro bracing with holes drilled in the top of all four corrners,outside overflow. Witch does not seam like a bad deal but im not sure what shiping would be.

The tank I want to build is 58"x30"x24

x24" but i could go taller than 24"

And it will be going into a wall so i could go about 36" tall any taller and i would not be able to get to any corals that might fall.

Has any one buit a their aquarium to save cost of geting it shipped and the high cost for the aquariums?

I looking a buying one for my new home but it has to be a custom size to fit where i need it to go.

What are your PAR levels? There's no doubt you can find SOME species/variants that will grow under the lighting you have but not knowing the intensity my guess it's going to be hit or miss.

i have a 4ft blue stunner fixture that i use for suplemental lighting that i got from a member that has a sps dominated tank that was using multiple stunner strips to light his tank with success, now that being said i have no clue on the par they put out, but i do know that my stunner strip comes on two hours before my MH and every single coral i have reacts to the stunner strip and are fully expanded and open by the time my MH come on, so that being said there is also a total of 75 leds on my strip....they do put out some kind of par IMO but how much i cant state for sure....IMO with 9 four ft strips would add up to about 675 total leds, i would assume you are getting a decent amount of par but like i said this is soley my opinion and i would borrrow a par meter to be sure.

Yeah all my corals open up and react to the lights also. And they look amazing I have a flower pot coral that was brown under t5ho lights and is now turning neon green so their doing something

I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on acros and other sps corals for me. I'm thinking about setting up an aquarium that has just sps corals in it. I will want to have some soft corals also but I know people that have amazing sps aquariums don't have any or very little soft corals in the tank, why is that?

I've been in the hobby now for about 10 years I have a 70 gallon as my main display tank. I recently moved back from corpus to austin Texas, I went to corpus for school but decided that it was not for me. Be for I moved I had a really nice show size montiapora cap that broke into 4 good size pieces and than a lot of little pieces. Now I only have one good size piece let of it because of the move. So I have keep sps before but not so much the acro or millipora corals.

I was running a 4XT5HO w/Led moon lights on the tank and just recently placed 9x48" ecoxotic stunner led light strips on my tank to give the corals better color and more light

The lights go in this order

Front to back

445nm blue,

8000k white,

12k white/445nm blue,

445nm blue,

12k white/magenta,

8000k white

12k white/445nm blue,

445 blue,

8000k white

I've got the on timers to come on for 12 hours a day

445 blue from 8am-10am 8pm-10pm

The rest from 9am-9pm

They are on hand dimmers from the company.

But I'm wanting to keep mostly sps corals in the aquarium, so any advice on keeping them and what you do for filtration will also be helpful.

I found this blue monti

Here's the picture

I found this little thing in my 70 gallon the other night and I was trying to figure it out about what it is. Does any one know what it might be, also it does not move.

I did get a hold of him! The house is a newer home. But I really do like the aquarium he has.

I'm looking to make it in to a shark tank.

27" probably it's big enugh to fit a fridge side ways through it. Hydro has not gotten on lately.