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Well after waiting a few more days getting it tested again and adding some more live rock from my brothers tank I went ahead and broke down the 25 gallon tank that was holding my clownfish and neon goby. After acclimating them for about three hours I added them to the 230 gallon tank last week and they are doing great and seem to love the new swimming space.
I pulled a stupid move and cleaned the tank a bit right before taking the pics so it's slightly cloudy.
The clownfish has chosen the left side of the tank as his and hangs there almost all the time.
The neon goby purches above the clown most of the time. They buddies though and at night sleep side by side.
Also started to add my clean up crew so far I've got 14 various hermits in the main tank and 5 in the refugium. I'm anticipating needing somewhere around 50 of these for the main tank when I'm fully stocked and another 35 or so in the fuge along with other clean up crew members.
Another big step is I decided on my permanent lighting and after about 4 hours of sitting down doing math and writing everything out I decided against metal halides which I was going to do. What beat them out was the Kessil 360 wide LED pendant lights with programable light spectrum and intensity? They are initially rather expensive but have a 10+ year life and when figuring it I used the assumption that they would only get 8 years of life just to be safe. It still came out to be cheaper in every way over the metal halides and avoids a lot of annoying work like replacing bulbs building a hood that can handle both heat and provide ventilation. So the LEDs where a good choice IMO. I got two of the lights to hang above my two main columns of rock since I'm going with mostly soft and low light corals these lights will work great and the few hareder high light corals are going to be situated on the tops of the rock columns so more then enough light there. In the future when funds allow I may get two smaller LED fixtures to put over the two ends of the tank to even out light and give me more room for higher light corals but for now these will do just fine for my starting corals.
Just unpacked.
They put out an amazing amount of light for the small area they take up.
My next update will show how I hang them and what they look like in action.
Also a LFS is moving from my area so I picked up some hammer tip coral and mushrooms that I couldn't pass up since they gave me a deal so I will also have those in the next update
I pulled a stupid move and cleaned the tank a bit right before taking the pics so it's slightly cloudy.
The clownfish has chosen the left side of the tank as his and hangs there almost all the time.
The neon goby purches above the clown most of the time. They buddies though and at night sleep side by side.
Also started to add my clean up crew so far I've got 14 various hermits in the main tank and 5 in the refugium. I'm anticipating needing somewhere around 50 of these for the main tank when I'm fully stocked and another 35 or so in the fuge along with other clean up crew members.
Another big step is I decided on my permanent lighting and after about 4 hours of sitting down doing math and writing everything out I decided against metal halides which I was going to do. What beat them out was the Kessil 360 wide LED pendant lights with programable light spectrum and intensity? They are initially rather expensive but have a 10+ year life and when figuring it I used the assumption that they would only get 8 years of life just to be safe. It still came out to be cheaper in every way over the metal halides and avoids a lot of annoying work like replacing bulbs building a hood that can handle both heat and provide ventilation. So the LEDs where a good choice IMO. I got two of the lights to hang above my two main columns of rock since I'm going with mostly soft and low light corals these lights will work great and the few hareder high light corals are going to be situated on the tops of the rock columns so more then enough light there. In the future when funds allow I may get two smaller LED fixtures to put over the two ends of the tank to even out light and give me more room for higher light corals but for now these will do just fine for my starting corals.
Just unpacked.
They put out an amazing amount of light for the small area they take up.
My next update will show how I hang them and what they look like in action.
Also a LFS is moving from my area so I picked up some hammer tip coral and mushrooms that I couldn't pass up since they gave me a deal so I will also have those in the next update
