120 Gallon Salty Condo

[schooleyosis]

how's mr trigger doing?

We've named him Count, as in Count Dracula because he's such a beast when it comes to eating meat! LOL I've seen him tear pieces of seaweed from the veggie clip as well so he's an all around good eater.

He's doing awesome man, I'm really glad I got to keep him in the MTRC family. Anytime you want to come by and check him out just holla.

Love to watch him swim around and he is super friendly. Him and the Foxface will definitely battle (not fight) for the most attention.

 

[ToXIc]

kewl

 

[schooleyosis]

Tek Elite 8 Bulb T5

So I think I got a pretty good deal on a 7 month old TEK-Light Elite 8 Bulb T5 fixture for the Salty Condo. It arrived this morning and appears to be in great shape. I'll have to verify the operation of it after work today.

The plan is to hang it from the ceiling and potentially add a floating canopy around it but we will see how it looks on it's own.

It came well packaged and wrapped in a lot of bubble wrap inside

3 cords: 2 that each control 4 bulbs and 1 for the fans.

 

[CastAway]

Sweet! I love new stuff...

 

[schooleyosis]

I hear ya.

Need suggestions on bulbs. I'm thinking ATI bulbs for sure just don't know which ones... I'd like to be around the 14k mark.

 

[CastAway]

Need suggestions on bulbs. I'm thinking ATI bulbs for sure just don't know which ones...

Check out Nuocmam's 90, post #442. Sick tank, awesome photo's, has to be a pretty good line up.

 

[schooleyosis]

I'll check it out. Thanks

 

[schooleyosis]

Few additions

Today I added a candy cane that I've been wanting to get for quite some time now. It has bright green centers surrounded by red with white stripes. I also added a tuxedo urchin, let's see how this one does compared to my last urchin. This one is quite a bit smaller but is still a little bigger than what I was hoping for.

I also made my own frag rack out of eggcrate and some magnets from BRS. It's V1.0 and I think I'll be working on V2.0 as this one is a little flimsy.

Tossed in a few other crappy iPhone photos for ya to check out.

In 2 weeks I'll update the progress on the GHA.

Unfortunately the Tang that was supposed to be shipped today didn't ship... Not sure what happened with it???

 

[roadrashpaul]

Looking really good man.

 

[TankedNTn]

Looking good. I was supposed to have a couple fire fish shipped today that didn't get shipped either.

 

[schooleyosis]

Strange.. From where were the fire fish coming.

 

[Volitans67]

Candy cane and the Count look good!

 

[schooleyosis]

Thanks everyone!

 

[TankedNTn]

Strange.. From where were the fire fish coming.

Liveaquaria - Divers Den.

 

[schooleyosis]

Liveaquaria - Divers Den.

Same here.... Wonder what is going on with them lately???

 

[bknapp]

Hanging the new lights.

 

[Dowtish]

What a view...:what:

 

[schooleyosis]

Good thing I didn't decide to chase the laser beam on the ceiling like a cat. Pictures will be posted in the a.m. Still can't post pics from my phone.

 

[schooleyosis]

Big Update Time

Got the T5 fixture hung. Thanks to BKnapp for all of the help.

16 feet up doesn't sound that high but on a ladder is a different story.

Thanks to Bill and John for the hanging kit and instructions/tips on how to hang the fixture from the ceiling.
Lag bolts through the ceiling. Added a piece of wire tied around a wing nut and to a support to relieve the weight of the lag bolt so the drywall/ceiling doesn't support all the weight.

Here it is...

 

[schooleyosis]

Part deux