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I always wanted a frag of this nice coral. But my tank has not been very stable on the SPS side recently (I contributed it to dirty water due to my extended frag tank with the same under performing euroreef skimmer and a lot of rock movement in a desperate effort to rid these evil brown palys)...

Congrats Phong!

Btw, I was at Blue Ocean Aquatics yesterday, and Tec has a ton of ATB skimmers. He is a good friend of Victor (the person who makes ATB according to Tec), and he might be able to hook you up with a good price if you are interested in ATB skimmer. I did not ask about price since I am in love with...

But without Ian, how do we ever get out of the recession? Seriously, I think I should thank Ian for stiring up my interest in a new skimmer, even though my wallet hates him :D. I have the thing fully open (lowest water level) with the bigger conduit (more air) on the pump, and it overflowed on...

Yep, it is made by Royal Exclusiv (same company that makes Bubble King). Oh, I was wrong on the power consumption in my original post. It only takes 28w, not 38w I originally wrote.

Ian, I remember you were telling me about this new Vertex skimmer that kicks behind during the BBQ. Is this the one? Anyway, after hooking up my new 70G tank to the original tank, my Euroreef skimmer with Eheim pump has been suffering from under skimming, and I had hard time keeping the...

Jim, I sent you 5 pics. Let me know if you have any problem with them.

Hi Jim, Sure I will send the files. I actually have several pictures with both raw and jpg format, but will only send the jpg for now. Let me know if you like to get the raw file also (they are huge). I am not familar with yousendit.com or how to use it, should I send the pics to...

I don't know if this is a good pic at all, but it was my favorite fish before it got too big and developed a taste for my zoas :(.

Erick, I already overflow the frag tank a couple of weeks ago. You are welcome on the mini carpet. I took out the main rock with probably 10 of them on it to clean up the brown palys on it (by first unplug the paly, then soak it in tap water for a week, then put it under the sun for a week...

Welcome to the auto water change club :), it was a life saver for me, as I never did a water change for my 120G + 70G system manually up to this point. The flip side is it made me lazy, and I hardly can keep up manually changing water for my two 12G nano tanks. I thought about doing auto water...

I bought 12 cool white and 12 royal blue on the second group buy. I bought the Meanwells directly from Powergate in Santa Clara (got to take advantage of the location :)). I just bought and picked up 4 more PLC-35-700 drivers from them today (two days waiting time, and no shipping charge). They...

Thanks Tony for the price reference at cutters. Last time I bought the royal blues top bin (D315) mounted on premium ETG starboard for $5.45 each on nano-reef group buy. So for 52 LEDs, it will be $53 difference, almost enough for 10 extra LEDs. Don't mean to be cheap, but I am cheap :), and...

Richard, you are welcome to drop by when you come down south, but I am only available in the evening during weekdays (have to keep the job to pay for this expensive hobby :)). Just let me know ahead of time, and we can set something up. At the same time, I will post my projects in this...

I have a 70w Sunpod on my 12g aquapod that I really like, but for the longest time I wish to have some actinic light that goes with it without clustering up the top of the small aquapod. Recently I started the LED itch, and thought LED will be the perfect way to go. After quite sometime thinking...

SPS in the fuge, that's an interesting idea :). I ran out of room everywhere else, I might just make better use of the fuge. Xcaret, thanks for the positive thinking. This is actually what I was thinking while I was doing it. Besides the satisfaction at the end, it also gave me many hours...

Phong, why do you want me to talk about the things that hurt the most :bigsmile: ? Actually, this particular one is not too bad. But after all 5 projects, I think I will be totally broke. 6 XR-E CW LED bought as part of a group buy at nanoreef: $32.7 + $4 shipping (I splitted the shipping...

Oh, I forgot to mention that the fixture does not even feel warm after hours of running. Lesson learnt here is that I might have overkilled in the cooling department. Since I think the fan on top of otherwise cool looking piece of metal is not very pretty, I will skip the fan for my next nano...

As I mentioned in another thread, I got really interested in making some LED lighting, and thought doing a sump light will be a good starting point since it does not have to be pretty or perfect. I did not take any pictures along the way, so I can only show the end results here. The sump is...

Roberto, I forgot to ask if you have a good source for some nice XR-E Royal Blue LEDs (preferrably their crean of the crop D315/D316 bin) mounted on good stars for a good price? I need to buy 52 such LEDs for the actinic lights. Thanks.