Vader

Thats coming along nicely, what bulbs are you using?

LOL.... here's what I got plus some reef cleaners. Pink Rim Blue Monster Scroll Towering Inferno Cyphastrea

It looks as if my Ric. is getting a second mouth ? but it looks kewl, I noticed it this morning when I went to feed the fishies.

It does help out, I was able to pick up an extra cleaner shrip and still saved.

I just spent $164 at Dr. Mac's place and the WAMAS discount saved me $16.

What frags would you like

Tank really looks great.

wow !! that lake is gorgeous, I bet there's some good fishing there too.

Old Man...try 42 kid Welcome to the club and the tank looks great.

I agree with Ziggy. I also have a ASM-2 but without the mod. My tank is still new, started up in Dec 08, and I have a light bioload. My collection cup fills to about 1/4" of waste, but then, it's cleaned out every sunday. Just a thought, but my outlet of the pump is mounted directly into the body of the skimmer, without the 90 deg. elbow. Try that if you haven't already. Good luck

I just order 2 frags from Dr. Mac and will be driving down Sat. May 2nd to pick them up. If anyone wants park their car at my place and tag along, there's room for ya. I will be leaving my house around 10am since they don't open till 11am.

I have noticed that after the lights turn off, many of my corals polyps totally extend out big tig time (SPS, LPS & softies) and I was wondering why. I have a light for the sump that turns on when the tank lights turn off, the pH and water temp stays the same. Does anyone have an idea why this may be happening because I would really like it to happen during the day cycle.

LOL....sorry but I couldn't help it...I just could see my wifes face now as she is coming home from work and the dryer is making all kinds of noise and she ask's me what's in the dryer...and I tell vinyl tubing. Can you say hair on fire.

It's just my opinion, but I would remove the check valve. It will fail at some point, just put the return outlet as close to the top of the water line as you can and you will never have to worry about water back flowing into your sump and overflowing.

I've been out for a while but the tank is doing quite well. Back in February I added a little more sand to the display tank and went through another hair algae bloom. But this time I knock it out pretty quickly now that I know what to do. Several months ago I went to the CMAS frag fest and picked up a Green Blasto and a RED & Green Blasto and the Green Blasto has about 4 small new heads coming up but the Red&Green wasn't doing very well. Then I found out that the puddy that is used to mount coral to live rock can harm some corals. So I pulled both of them out and removed the puddy and super glued them to a small piece of live rock and then used the puddy to attach it to the rock. The Red&Green Blasto is now on its way back to recovery and I'm hoping in the next month, new heads may start to grow. As far as fish go, all I have is a Flame Angelfish and an Orange Spotted Blenny (my Fav). I've had a few causalities but I've learned from them. The Blenny is so fun to watch in the tank. My Tank sits just to my back, as I'm on the computer, and many times I will swing around to watch the tank, and there is the Blenny, in his little hole with his eyes watching me, ducking further down in his hole as I draw closer to the tank. But when it's feeding time...look out, he's out there chomping away. Also, I have several hermit crab that have been with me since the start when the rock was in the garage sitting in a tube, and have just grown. You will notice I have removed the baffles from the sump. It was just way too hard to keep clean, so what you see is how it is now, plus 15 gallon water changes take only 15 minutes now. The tank has been up and running for some time now but there's not a lot of coral, but slowly I add one here, and another there. I've added a few pics and still haven't mastered the camera. In reality, I need to get a camera for greater detail and close ups....but all in time. The pics I have just don't bring out the full color, but it's there. I have many hobbies other than reef'n but I can truly say that this hobby can give the greatest returns and/or rewards, but on the flip side, give out the greatest disappointments. I guess that's one reason why I really love this hobby so much. I hope you enjoy the pics and someday I will get some real quality pics.