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04-14-2008, 12:11 PM
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#51 (permalink)
| | Feather Star
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
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Scott's got the idea. Buy low and sell high.  _________ Kris
180 gallon AGA display re-born on 7-1-08. If I listed all of my equipment my wife would know what I've spent on this thing. Don't want to sign divorce papers.  My 180 Tank Thread | 
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04-14-2008, 07:55 PM
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#52 (permalink)
| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 24
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Here are some pics of my metal halides I installed today! They are 2 250 watt mogul base MH, powered by 2 Blue Wave 3 ballast installed with 2 Reef Optix 2 reflectors. I am pumped about getting them going, lots of time and money involved, but well worth it in the long run. They are a little bit of overkill for a 55 gallon tank, but I am planning for the future (my 110 gallon tank!). I am trying to wait on purchases until I can buy some of the best, that way I don't "get by" with a $100 item for now, then upgrade to a $250 item, then a $400 item, etc. Buy the good stuff now, save money in the long run. The first 2 are of the reflectors with the canopy open, #3 is of the reflector with a 250w bulb, #4 is of my stand with the ever-so-cramped space w/ ballast on either side, #5 is a closer shot of one of the Blue Wave 3 ballast. Working on more pics... _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 1 Mandarin Goby, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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04-14-2008, 08:01 PM
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#53 (permalink)
| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 24
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MORE PICS! First pic is of one side with a new vent, 2nd pic is of the other side, if you look close you can see the hook I installed up top to hold the lid open. #3 is of the lid being held open with the hook, WOOOHOOO, no more holding the lid open with my head!! #7 is of the wonderful mess of wires behing my tank now, and #10 is of the other ballast, you can see my VHO actinic ballast (white box) right behind it. | |
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04-14-2008, 08:05 PM
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#54 (permalink)
| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 24
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Finally, my favorite random pickup by far. I got this surge protector at Wal-Mart of all places about a month ago. It is over 4000 joules, and has 2 lights on it that indicate if it is currently protecting and if it is being properly grounded, a very important issue. It was a home theater protector and cost $35 here. But what takes the cake is that it has FOURTEEN outlets, by far the biggest selling point for me!! You can also see the timer box for my actinics mounted behind the surge protector, gonna be picking up another for my MH. That's all the pics for tonight, enjoy! | |
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04-15-2008, 03:10 AM
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#55 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Did you fix those actinics while you were in that hood??? _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 Parameters My 265 Gal. Tank Thread   | |
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04-15-2008, 03:15 AM
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#56 (permalink)
| | Feather Star
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
Posts: 795
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Man Otty he didn't even mention his good buddy and all around best guy in the world KOgle loaning him a 250 MH bulb to test everything.
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04-15-2008, 03:23 AM
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#57 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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You mean he ordered the lights but no bulbs???  | |
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04-15-2008, 03:31 AM
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#58 (permalink)
| | Feather Star
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
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I think he ordered the bulbs yesterday so he should have them tomorrow or Thursday. I'm thinking he said he got 15k bulbs. I've never heard of 15k but it should be a good balance of blue and white... | |
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04-15-2008, 09:45 AM
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#59 (permalink)
| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
Posts: 399
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Yeah, my MH halides light up the living room too 
Hope you like yours as much as i love mine!
Evan.
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40g with 10g sump with ~85 lbs liverock, 1.5" deep livesand bed.
Fish - halloween hermits, blue leg hermits, left-handed hermits, emerald crabs, assorted snails, chocolate chip star, 4x strawberry conches, tuxedo urchin x2, electric flame scallop, gold stripe maroon clown, blue-side wrasse, yellow tang, yellow watchman goby, white seabae anemone.
Coral - One lonely Kenya Tree. | |
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04-15-2008, 10:25 AM
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#60 (permalink)
| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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I offered to send them (: 15 K is good bulb X-M makes them as well as s few others .. Tad to blue for my taste I always found the USHOI 10 K where thet better with the URI VHO actincs I just switched to the sPS 14K after I saw how good they where . I don't make changes easily with Light and or salt's (: If it ain't broke I don't try ti fix it.. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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