Zeppelins Garage Band Prop System

[Zeppelin]

Here's a couple pics of my garage setup.

The MH in pic2 has been switched over to an 8 bulb T-5 setup now.

 

[maroonytunes]

Hey Zepp,

Sweet prop tanks. I will have to stop by and check out what you have for sale soon.

 

[jessiesgrrl]

Woooooooooowwwwww, that's gargantumongous!

I lust after doing something on that scale... my hubby would never have it. I'm pretty sure at that point he would cease calling it a saltwater obsession, and I would have to start using symbols to convey his comments... *&&%^&^%^%*&(&*^^&!!!

:lol:
Laurie

 

[gflat65]

NIce set up. I see you like to keep em small.

 

[JGoslee]

Sweet setup! Since switching over from mh to t5 have you noticed any changes in the frags? Better growth/colors?

 

[Zeppelin]

Marooneytunes. Definitely swing by. Where are you from?

JGoslee
With the T-5s, there is just so much more light than the 400 watt MH, that I am battling a bit of an algae issue. I just added carbon, and rowaphos reactors this week to try and take away anything feeding the issue. I also added a yellow tang that is doing a bang up job of mowing. The tank is mostly zoo frags. They love the extra light, especially the caribbeans.

 

[maroonytunes]

Ann Arbor, MI

 

[Zeppelin]

Cool. Not that far. You ought to make it down for the Columbus All Ohio Frag Swap the end of September. Always tons of nice corals available.

 

[maroonytunes]

Great idea. I want those zoas in your avatar.

 

[Zeppelin]

hehe

I have a small patch growing in my 300 display tank. Thats it. Haven't seen that morph come in for awhile.

 

[maroonytunes]

They are awesome and not speckled like most of the fire and ices around here.

 

[Azurel]

LOL....You kill me Rev...

 

[jessiesgrrl]

ROTFL, Rev, you are awesomely bad...


Laurie

 

[twon8]

hehe

I have a small patch growing in my 300 display tank. Thats it. Haven't seen that morph come in for awhile.

are they orange with greenish faces, with orange mouths?

 

[Zeppelin]

Here's a larger pic of them

 

[maroonytunes]

That is awesome.

 

[jessiesgrrl]

Wow.... Even better pic because there are so many of them in the colony!

Laurie

 

[organism]

wow, very nice! I wanted to get some stacking done here, but in earthquake country I had to go for a low to the floor design...

do the t5's work better for you in terms of growth and color? I find that with 400w 15k XM's I get insane growth and intense color, but wow is that power bill high!

 

[Zeppelin]

Ya, stacking wouldn't be any fun where the ground shakes occasionally.

I like the T-5s so far. Most of the stuff I put on the site is grown under them. My caribbean frags are mostly kept under 250 watt 20K XM, but thats just because that is what was over that tank. The heat issue was one of the reasons I switched. Even so, I still have a controller flipping the lights on and off at different periods of the day and night so theren't more than a couple lights on at the same time.

I also have a 12K air conditioner running for the room for the 85-90+ degree summers. I'm glad I only deal with the heat bigtime for a few months. Cant imagine my setup out there in Cali with the year round heat and high cost of electric.

 

[organism]

actually, I'm about 4-5 miles from the beach, so the heat's not bad at all, the mainland gets it pretty bad though. freakin power bills are intense here unfortunately, I call it the enron legacy, good thing the house didn't come with an a/c or the bills would be huge!

have you found that the t5's make them lose a little color? I've got one t5 tank, and every zoo I've put in it has turned blander, even though the intensity is the same