320g build/journey/experiment :-)

[Maya]

Crap.. Forgot to mention that I love the tank.

 

[Greenmaster]

LOL its all good. Thanks.

 

[Emelinda76]

do you have any recent pics?
Id love to see them

 

[uscamaro]

do you have any recent pics?
Id love to see them

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[Greenmaster]

Well I paid off my credit card and my "local" fish store gets stock in tomorrow I'm going to take the 45 minute drive first thing in the morning and I'll post tomorrow evening/Thursday some time on what I brought home

 

[Henry405]

sounds awesome. Good luck on your trip

 

[Flossie]

So I thought I would post a quick video of my lights turning off at the end of day.
The LEDs turn off slowly to simulate a sunset (or in morning sunrise) The start at a different time every day depending on the time of year, the time between the first set and last set turning off is the same all year though. I have 12 sets of LEDs with each set having 5 LEDs. This is the order of the LEDs shutting off. W = White at 6700k, WW = Warm White at 3000k, and B = Blue. At 0 min W, 1 Min W, 2 Min W, 3 Min W and a WW that should have gone off at 6 Min, 4 Min WW, 8 Min WW, 11 Min B, 15 min B, 19 Min B, 23 Min B, and the last set of LEDs turns off at 28 Min and is a B.
This is the times that the LEDs shut off in the edited video.
Sets of white (6700k) LEDs turn off at 11 seconds, 21 seconds, 25 seconds, and 36 seconds.
At 37 seconds a set of warm white (3000k) LEDs turn off (programing error)
The other sets of warm white LEDs turn off at 45 seconds and 52 seconds.
The blue LEDs turn off at 1:04, 1:11, 1:15, 1:26, and 1:34.

LEDs

That's incredible... I bet your fish love it!!!

 

[Greenmaster]

I don't have many fish yet but I'm sure when I get them they will

 

[Hinds04]

Well I paid off my credit card and my "local" fish store gets stock in tomorrow I'm going to take the 45 minute drive first thing in the morning and I'll post tomorrow evening/Thursday some time on what I brought home

Anxiously awaiting your return...

 

[amdninjaboy]

Have a safe trip, looking forward to photos of the new arrivals..

 

[kngsht420]

Hey kinda off topic but what kind of rocks are those.Im new to SW and im setting up 2 tanks rite now and my 250 gallon im seeting up id really like to use rocks similar to those. im sure u had what kind they were somewhere in the post but relly didnt wanna go thru all the pages.

 

[Deep Seven]

He used oystercrete, which is basically concrete using oyster shells instead of gravel and argonite sand instead of regular sand. He also used portland white cement instead of regular grey cement. He posted youtube videos showing how he did it. Using sand/oyster shells to form moulds you can make pretty much anything you can imagine as far as caves, towers, and whatnot.

I think he decided a slightly different recipe was better then the one he posted on youtube, more of something I think, and when it's dry you need to soak the rocks in water to leach out the limestone from the concrete or your PH will go through the roof. That can take a month or even several months. He put them in the ocean for almost a month and they were still leaching and driving up the PH for another month or two while soaking in the aquarium with just water.

It's definately not easy or fast, but it's cheaper and you can make whatever shape you need. In the end it seems to be very porous, with high calcium content, and in theory that should make great "live rock" for a reef.

 

[Gregcoyote]

Public aquariums do this all the time, but I think they have a mixture that doesn't leech so much alkalinity.

 

[Greenmaster]

YAY! Everything I wanted came...

First lets start with the fish I got most of... Zebra Darts... I got a few...

20 of them actually.

 

[Greenmaster]

My second addition was the Yellow tangs...

One

Two

Three

Four... and Five...

This was one of my 4 DOA... but I threw it in the tank anyways... and lightning fast a Nassarius snail pops out of the sand...

This is a live cleaner

A hermit crab was kinda hungry... he decided to eat a Margarita snail and a couple Nassarius join in on the feast...

And in final... a lousy FTS

 

[Greenmaster]

In total I got:
20 Zebra Darts
5 Small Yellow Tangs (obviously they shipped 2 small 2small/medium and 1 large)
50 Hermits (2 DOA)
25 small Nassarius Snails
25 Cerith Snails
25 Margarita Snails (1 DOA)
3 Small Cleaner Shrimp (1 DOA)
2 Coral Banded Shrimp

 

[newreefaddict]

I would think that you need more of a clean up crew for that tank.... What else do you plan on adding to it?

 

[Hinds04]

wow, I'm getting a six line tomorrow lol

 

[Greenmaster]

2 new schools and some mandarins more inverts and a yellow bellied hippo tang (or as my 6 year old says... I want Dory)
Also my CUC will grow as the members of my tank increase/grow

 

[Flake]

Gotta have a dory.

Nice to see some life in there. It's looking good.