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coreyk 
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 Posted: March 22 2004 at 11:09pm |
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awesome job! cant wait to see it with rock and all stocked!
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John Fletcher
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Posted: March 23 2004 at 10:02am |
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Question. With the plumbing described above, how does the water get to the back outlet with the front outlet being open. Are you slowing the front down, so it can be the same preasure, front and back?
I will be using a SCWD and a Velocity T4 on a closed loop. I will have one outlet for each side, but like the idea of having two outlets on each side. Please give input.
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(Tank of the Month for May 2003)Taking a little break...
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Ryan Willden
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Posted: March 23 2004 at 10:28am |
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I want your tank Adam. That looks great!
Sweet setup.
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Adam Haycock
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Posted: April 12 2004 at 8:43pm |
I just moved most of the stuff in my 24 gallon tank over to the new tank.
The color on the pics is off by a little. The tank is being lit by two 65 watt PCs (one 50/50 and one actinic). The hood also has a 175 watt MH.
A flame scallop which has been happy in the 24 gallon for nearly a year now
And the anemone fish which quickly found its best friend
I'll be upgrading the MH in the hood to a 400 watt 10,000K bulb in the next week or so. Meaning i'll have a 175 watt icecap ballast and 10,000K Ushio bulb for sale shortly....if anyone is interested  (about 3-4 months use on both).
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Adam Haycock
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Posted: April 12 2004 at 8:54pm |
 John Fletcher wrote:
Question. With the plumbing described above, how does the water get to the back outlet with the front outlet being open. Are you slowing the front down, so it can be the same preasure, front and back?
I will be using a SCWD and a Velocity T4 on a closed loop. I will have one outlet for each side, but like the idea of having two outlets on each side. Please give input. |
Sorry, I just saw this question John
With all four outlets open, the flow was even between front and back, but it wasn't strong enough. I ended up capping one front outlet and one back outlet. Now I have two nozzles pointing at each other. I also took off the SCWD since it was reducing flow a bit. It also made a noise which I didn't care for (like gears shifting). I was told it does this on more powerful pumps, but don't know for sure. Im selling the SCWD if anyone is interested (it has only been used for about 24 hours - $25)
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Suzy
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Posted: April 13 2004 at 6:22am |
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Hey, I need a SCWD! Do you still have it? First dibs?
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Mark Peterson
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Posted: April 13 2004 at 6:27am |
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How much for the old 175 MH?
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Posted: April 13 2004 at 7:29am |
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I too may be interested....in the light
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I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.
Magna
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Adam Haycock
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Posted: April 13 2004 at 9:00am |
The bulb and ballast are for sale in the Selling forum.
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Adam Haycock
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Posted: April 17 2004 at 11:56am |
The 400 watt bulb is due to arrive today. Here is a pic with the 175 watt bulb running
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Posted: April 21 2004 at 7:38pm |
400 watt installed
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 7:31pm |
Latest pics
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Posted: June 12 2004 at 8:21pm |
Looks great!
Makes me want to build the same thing. Aquatica has a couple Malu(?) anemones (I've never heard of that name before, but they look like ritteri, H. magnifica to me) that would look awesome in a tank like that!
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Posted: June 13 2004 at 11:34am |
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Thanks Jon. One of the main reasons I built this tank was to keep a H. magnifica. It will (hopefully) stay on top of the rock structure, directly under the MH bulb and near the return lines. I believe H. malu is also known as "sebae" anemone. Thats probably my second choice
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Posted: June 13 2004 at 12:26pm |
Sebae... yes now I remeber that's what Shawn had said too. I just wish I had room in my tank for one! They're beautiful! Right now I have three smaller hostable anemones (I'm not counting my aptasia  ) in my tank and two of them are on the move! I have a love hate relationship with 'em. When they stay, I love 'em, when they move, I hate 'em. So far I've anticipated their next move and moved corals to cleared a path for them.
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 1:41am |
ME TOO!!!! The pay off has been well worth the work for me...
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