Tomorrow is delivery day. Tank, stand, and sump from IM will be delivered to my garage. The pricing and quality was too hard to pass up on the complete set, so I went that route. After a recent move into a new home, my wife banished me to the basement . I'm cool with it. I installed a slop sink, added a 100amp sub panel, improved insulation, and I'm sure I'll be making more environment changes as time goes on. I keep a large dehumidifier running continuously so hopefully that keeps the humidity at acceptable levels.
I've been gathering equipment since the summer. I knew I wanted to run halide again so I kept my eyes open. Didn't know how scarce this stuff became so I bought a bunch of stuff to keep me going for many years should I keep this route long term. I managed to get my hands on a 72" giesemann spectra which is the holy grail of halide fixtures IMO. I'm running 250w Magnetic ballasts to start. I think this would be fine considering that this ballast drives bulbs over 300w and the tank is shallow.
I've been curing 90lbs of live Austrian rock since September and have been conditioning a bunch of fish in the rock tank so there is some level of bio load for the start of the tank. I'm not expecting a cycle, same as my last bunch of tanks. Hopefully I can keep cyano and uglies at a minimum
Equipment choices are basic proven stuff. Dual stage Ranco Controller, Bubble King double cone 200, flow I have mp 40's, mp 60, gyres. Eheim heaters, kamoer dosers, many 5 gallon pails of ESV 2 part , and lots of salt. No ICP/no water change for me, not at the moment .
I'll post some progress pics in time. The biggest challenge is going to be getting this thing downstairs to my basement. Probably will need a moving company. Whatever, I'll figure out out My little 25g nano is holding a few gems to seed the tank until I hit up some buddies for some more
I've been gathering equipment since the summer. I knew I wanted to run halide again so I kept my eyes open. Didn't know how scarce this stuff became so I bought a bunch of stuff to keep me going for many years should I keep this route long term. I managed to get my hands on a 72" giesemann spectra which is the holy grail of halide fixtures IMO. I'm running 250w Magnetic ballasts to start. I think this would be fine considering that this ballast drives bulbs over 300w and the tank is shallow.
I've been curing 90lbs of live Austrian rock since September and have been conditioning a bunch of fish in the rock tank so there is some level of bio load for the start of the tank. I'm not expecting a cycle, same as my last bunch of tanks. Hopefully I can keep cyano and uglies at a minimum
Equipment choices are basic proven stuff. Dual stage Ranco Controller, Bubble King double cone 200, flow I have mp 40's, mp 60, gyres. Eheim heaters, kamoer dosers, many 5 gallon pails of ESV 2 part , and lots of salt. No ICP/no water change for me, not at the moment .
I'll post some progress pics in time. The biggest challenge is going to be getting this thing downstairs to my basement. Probably will need a moving company. Whatever, I'll figure out out My little 25g nano is holding a few gems to seed the tank until I hit up some buddies for some more