Nurse Smarty Pants' 30 gallon cube
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looks good, looking forward to seeing the new light and the rock and the sump and everything.
one thing Nurse smarty, I would tame X's enginuity, we all know where that leads! Just kidding X relax, those mushrooms where 39.99!!!!congrats and I look forward to seeing what you guys did today!!!!
I thought we would see this light by now? come on post some pics of it.
ttyl
shavo out
are you getting the ultra superman, figure four leg lock, ring of green lantern, super rare, finklestien blastos for this tank?
one thing Nurse smarty, I would tame X's enginuity, we all know where that leads! Just kidding X relax, those mushrooms where 39.99!!!!congrats and I look forward to seeing what you guys did today!!!!
I thought we would see this light by now? come on post some pics of it.
ttyl
shavo out
are you getting the ultra superman, figure four leg lock, ring of green lantern, super rare, finklestien blastos for this tank?
hey everyone. i took the pics, so i might as well upload them, and give a little narration-
Nurse's light came in the mail and it turned out being a great value. excellent construction and as good quality as the Current "orbit" fixture on my tank.
here's the light-
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... &rd=1&rd=1
sweet price, and a decent fixture.
we decided to add the live rock that was curing at my house while we were at it. a few pics are to follow-
Nurse's light came in the mail and it turned out being a great value. excellent construction and as good quality as the Current "orbit" fixture on my tank.
here's the light-
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... &rd=1&rd=1
sweet price, and a decent fixture.
we decided to add the live rock that was curing at my house while we were at it. a few pics are to follow-
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more pics...and two things about the fixture- i think the LED's are too bright, and another odd thing, but not a major issue, was that the light's internal fans were on their own cord. i don't know who would want to run fans on a different timer than the lighting, but..whatever...it's still cool!
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what's great about this design is that there are no baffles. you don't have a little section for evaporation for a pump to starve. the whole sump is the last baffle. terrific set up, very impressed I can't wait to see it in action and let us know how it turns out.
Huh...No mention of the fact that I had a little bit of input to the sump idea. :roll: It was my suggestion to partition it off in that manner after the initial idea didn't work and X's choice to use the mesh material and caulk. I have to give it to him, tho, he did an excellent job with the rock. I think he missed his calling as an engineer!
Anyhow, I guess we're a good team if the final product is an improvement on his previous masterpieces, eh?
Anyhow, I guess we're a good team if the final product is an improvement on his previous masterpieces, eh?
some pics from smarty pants' house....
and a little update:
she bought an aqua c remora. we put it on the tank and as of now, it's kind of loud(louder than my asm). it also put a ton of microbubbles in the tank(the instructions state this will go away after a while). it pulled some skimmate immediately though. my asm took about a week before pulling decent skimmate.
we went to a local store and she purchased some ricordia mushrooms, and she also got some zoos from a local reefer. the ricordia were 20 bucks a piece, which i thought was pretty cheap, and the zoos were cheaper than that :wink:
she also ordered a 20k hqi bulb from ebay, which arrived today. i honestly can't wait to get that yellow bulb out of her fixture!
we went to "That Fish Place" in lancaster, pa. where she bought a rio 2500 for the return from her sump, and we removed the maxijet powerhead, and implemented the rio, by way of a SCWD wavemaker device, and two locline returns.
this setup may be changed, due to the enormous amount of flow in the refugium. i think it's a bit too turbulent, and we might have to go to a closed loop or some other design.
she also bought another pretty large piece of solomon island rock, which is curing at my house.
i gave her a piece of red sea pulsing xenia,a red tonga shroom, and some green zoos. Oh..and some macros.
lastly, she also purchased a very tiny cleaner shrimp, a little porcelain crab, 2 bumblebee snails, a pretty large mexican turbo, 2 astrea snails, and a firefish goby.
all parameters read zero, including nitrate.
her ph, however, was a bit low(7.9) a few days before the additions. we added a seachem 8.3 ph buffer, which solved that issue. the only thing i can think of is the "reef crystals" salt she is using. both tests were done at the same time of day. the ph remains the same.
some basic brown diatom algae is present on the rock and sand, which we anticipated.
and a little update:
she bought an aqua c remora. we put it on the tank and as of now, it's kind of loud(louder than my asm). it also put a ton of microbubbles in the tank(the instructions state this will go away after a while). it pulled some skimmate immediately though. my asm took about a week before pulling decent skimmate.
we went to a local store and she purchased some ricordia mushrooms, and she also got some zoos from a local reefer. the ricordia were 20 bucks a piece, which i thought was pretty cheap, and the zoos were cheaper than that :wink:
she also ordered a 20k hqi bulb from ebay, which arrived today. i honestly can't wait to get that yellow bulb out of her fixture!
we went to "That Fish Place" in lancaster, pa. where she bought a rio 2500 for the return from her sump, and we removed the maxijet powerhead, and implemented the rio, by way of a SCWD wavemaker device, and two locline returns.
this setup may be changed, due to the enormous amount of flow in the refugium. i think it's a bit too turbulent, and we might have to go to a closed loop or some other design.
she also bought another pretty large piece of solomon island rock, which is curing at my house.
i gave her a piece of red sea pulsing xenia,a red tonga shroom, and some green zoos. Oh..and some macros.
lastly, she also purchased a very tiny cleaner shrimp, a little porcelain crab, 2 bumblebee snails, a pretty large mexican turbo, 2 astrea snails, and a firefish goby.
all parameters read zero, including nitrate.
her ph, however, was a bit low(7.9) a few days before the additions. we added a seachem 8.3 ph buffer, which solved that issue. the only thing i can think of is the "reef crystals" salt she is using. both tests were done at the same time of day. the ph remains the same.
some basic brown diatom algae is present on the rock and sand, which we anticipated.
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