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sent you a pm again for time and location?

one more PM

are you off or working tomorrow ( Monday ) if no Tuesday can work let me know 703-989-0444 thanks Sid

I live ten mins from Fullerton rd are you working sat or sun? During the week I get home 6 pm lmk thanks sid

Soory to hear about your job difficulties hope you'll come back soon I'll take hippo tang let me know when can I pick him up

I've been having some worse luck with setting up t-5 retro kit inside the half circle canopy. I don't have the skills for electrician or "handy man" work. I had trouble first with aligning all the 48" lamps with endcaps, one would come short and other will come long.. I didn't make a frame and just used 6x3' acrylic on both sides and mounted the endcaps and then screwed the acrylic inside the canopy. I know a pic would help here but with all the frustration etc I didn't take any pic at that time. Then I had issue with IceCap 660 ballast which I had to send it back to IceCap for repair and it should be arriving hopefully Sat. So currently I have 2 36" t-5 running which has D&D Aqua Blue+ and Aqua blue and I don't have any actinic to supliment. I am thinking about buying 30" Current Nova Extrem fixture with two t-5 and use that as actinic, I have enough room under the canopy to fit this and don't have to worry about wiring, etc. What do you guys suggest I should do? Once I have my ballast back I'll have total of 4x48" + 2x36" and 2x30 under the canopy I'll run the 30" as actinic so I can control the timing separate from the rest which is setup to come all the lamps at once. any suggestions?

1/4" acyrlic is what I am going with in my 75gl sump from HD, that's what I was suggested by few memebers on here in my WTB post

wow amazing pics and reef setup. Is it possible for you to post pic of your canopy. Reason why I ask is that I am having hard time putting togather my 4 T5 retro kit in my half circl.. either I am short on length or long some times for the bulbs to fit in properly..what method did you use to set yours in place properly? thanks sid

Travis looking good bro.. nice lights

Nice shots, what kind of camera did you use and do you remember your settings? did you touch up any of these pics in photoshop or any other programs? I have D300 and still have long way to go as far as learning..

Thanks, I didn't use flash nor tripod. I'm still practicing and learning all the functionalities of this camera (D300).

Nice Pics Ron, I met you at the end while taking pics.. I have to upload some of mine

Hey Chris, when I had that hood on my tank I had cooling fan from ebay (see link below). It's very effective in blowing hot air and clips on to the edge or center brace. One this is it's not as quiet as I expected it to be but works thought. http://cgi.ebay.com/Metal-Halide-Aquarium-...id=p3286.c0.m14

I have brand new Turbo Twist 9W good for 125gl, check out sale forum if you are interested

are those lights just sitting on egg crate or laying there w/o brackets? Store looks nice and big.

My nephew got a job in Abu Dhabi earlier this year and he's been asking me to come visit him... My wife and I are planning a trip late next year, can't wait.

None of the links are working, what's your question?

That's just amazing.. that's it I am moving..

If you can remove him and put him in a smaller tank by himself would be better, just incase if he is sick and you don't want your other fish to get sick.

Bruce, Looking good, I had to clean the screen of my turf scrubber this past sunday..that was covered totally and needed to be cleaned I totally forgot to take pic..:( . I don't have any smell, I do have some evop but that's understandable and I'll be checking my H2O parameters soon.

Chris, thanks again for drilling my 75gl tank, you knew what you were doing, I can't wait to get my sump build up and going.

no thats my 3 year old one. This is older pic though.. here he is w/his daddy..lol p.s I think we jacked up this thread lol sorry OP.

Here is he in action.. pics are from a crappy camera..

The Sohal I have he's a real entertainer.. he would come up and grab nori from my hand.. If I stick my hand in the water he will just circle around and when I am about to feed mysis all of my fish just come up and wait for me to put the food in, if I move from one side to other side of the tank they follow me..I really love my Sohal.