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Just as good a day as any to give your new tank its fist birthday. Right now between 1600 and 1800 all the lights are on, I have set them each for 6 hours with a two hour start delay for each halide. As you can see I have not cut off the threaded stock from the lights because the lights are not centered front to back over the tank, this may need fixed if I decide the front of tank is too dark. The rails stop at the crown molding in the garage which would give me a couple of inches.
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The sump arrived on Wednesday, I rushed home from work to get started on everything that needed to be done.



At Marc's suggestion I filled the bottom of the stand with sand instead of concrete, it took five bags of sand.



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hey everyone, just a quick update, the new tank has been setup for just about a month now and everything is looking great! i have not been checking NO3 NO2 or NH3 i can sort of tell where things are at just by looking at the tank, but i have my Mg ALK and Ca all in check and my pH is abnormally perfect 8.2day and 8.0night. the initail hair algea bloom is just about over and the cyano bloom is also begining to fade away with less and less each day, just 2 small spots left.

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when i started this tank i wanted lots of room for fish and for my sps to grow into big colonies. im still thining out my collection so its a lil crowded once i figure out what how much light each one likes and how its growing ill start glueing stuff down. I also wanted to "impress Marc" after he called my last tank a fruit stand lol, marc if you see anything you like i would be happy to send you frags i live in san antonio so we can work something out, or theres always that new mega bus ...

I think I finally have something to say,hopefully pics will follow soon.The new tank project has started.It will be a Cadlights starfire tank 96x36x30 if the tank volume calculators are correct it is about 450 gallons.This will replace a 200 gallon acrylic nightmare,the coraline grows so fast in my tank that to keep it clean takes way too much effort. A while back I was unable to move as I put my back out so the tank suffered and now to get some of this stuff off is like breaking rocks.The 200 is ...