Yeah, it really does. Makes me think I could have gotten away with a bigger tank without my wife noticing LOL
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Yeah, it really does. Makes me think I could have gotten away with a bigger tank without my wife noticing LOL
Time for another update!
I've had a few little projects with the tank here and there. I like to "tinker" with things, so I will never really stop working on stuff as long as my free time allows me to. Speaking of free time....my wife and I had our child, a beautiful little girl, on August 9th. My tank got a little neglected that week or week and a half, so I have a ton of cyano now, but I'm slowly beating it back down. The great thing about an infant is that they pretty much only eat, sleep, and use the bathroom. I can't really feed her....so other than changing diapers and making sure momma is well fed, I get a little time to mess around with my tank. I know that will change soon, so I'm doing it while I can! Ha!
The biggest change is that I got rid of the MH fixture and bought 2 AI Prime HD's. The MH were great but they were hot and killing our electrical bill. I'm thinking about selling them but I have no idea what they are worth. The primes are awesome. I am saving to get one more, just for better coverage, but man the corals are loving them. I'm running the BRS percentages and everything seems to be doing great. I'm too lazy to look back on past posts, so I don't know if I've mentioned this, but I have some new corals as well. I added a xenia, some different zoas (green ones and some scrambled eggs), a birds nest, starburst mdntipora, bicolor war coral, and a coral that a local member on here graciously gifted me (as well as the scrambled eggs). I don't remember how to spell it but I think its something like plastoitweoingjklang;sfkdjals;gjd. (I'll find the thread in a bit and find the real name). The colors of everything are really popping with the new lights, and I've seen better extension on some corals as well. I mounted the lights to a floating shelf so we can put some pictures or plants above the tank (or food, turkey basters, refractometers, test kits.....lol)
The only creatures I've lost are two snails, and I suspect the hermit crab is to blame. Everything else seems to be healthy, and all the fish are back in the tank after being in a hospital tank for a while.
I wasn't happy with the inside of my tank stand. It was jumbled at messy, and I like things to be sleek, or at least somewhat neat. I changed out my 5 gallon bucket that I used for the ATO with a rimless 5 gallon tank I had laying around from a previous freshwater build. I cut some wood, painted some stuff, re mounted the power strip, and built a shelf for my non existent controllers. My next plan is to save up for an Apex or something similar. I added in some LED tape I had left over (I was using it for blue/moon lighting with my MH). I think it turned out pretty good! Still have a few little things to do like painting and fixing a piece of wood I split (whoops).
Here are some pictures of the new lights and a before and after of the underneath.
Coming on a treat really nice love the zoasWas looking into getting one more Prime just to even out the light and shadowing some, and found a Hydra 26 HD for super cheap, so I bought that. I feel like it will be way too much light, but also figured I could sell it and get another Prime plus something else. I couldn't pass up that good of a deal. Still contemplating powerheads, looking at all of them. Probably will really just depend on what I find at a good deal.
Took some pictures, so figured I'd upload them here. Have a really hard time getting a good looking full tank shot since it's so wide and I'm just using my iPhone.
Used Snapseed to edit out some blue, so if they look edited, it's because they are.
Mostly wanted to upload a FTS and see what you guys think I should look into for my next corals, and where you would place them in my tank.
Also wanted to show my D.A. Hermit Crab's new favorite perch
ALSO MY D.A. Clownfish ate a glob of super glue and hat it stuck in it's mouth for a while, as you can see in the picture I included. It finally fell out, but was a little bit of a scare.