My 225 Tank build

[dswong01]

I finally got a chance to start cycling my 225 gallon tank. Here a picture of the set up.

 

[fishnfst]

Nice to see it with water Is that the rock from the group order?

 

[dswong01]

yes

 

[GreshamH]

You might want to get rid of that felony sitting there in that picture (Berkeley Farms labelled milk crate) or at least blur it out They're REALLY cracking down right now on them.

Nice tank What are your lighting plans?

 

[dswong01]

2 or 3 lumenarcs

 

[Apon]

nice

 

[nukeproof]

Nice dimension. I like to check it out one of these days.

 

[GreshamH]

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2 or 3 lumenarcs
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To reflect the ambient room light?

What is going in the 2 - 3 Lumenarcs?

 

[dswong01]

6 ft length x 3 ft depth x 20" height, I will be using 250 watt 10 k reeflux bulbs with the lumenarcs

 

[GreshamH]

Any actinics? I'm going with 2x 150 10K reeflux I think, with 2x actinic VHO for my 4x2x2

 

[dswong01]

I have 2 sets of t5 48" retros I may use. Most of the equipment will be transfered from my 125 as I break it down.

 

[GreshamH]

What do you feel is the best T5 actinic(daylight as well )? My buddy is setting up an 8 bulb Tek Light and I have never used T5 as main lighting so I have no idea what bulbs are good.

 

[sfsuphysics]

Does the Tek light have separate plugs for a number of the bulbs? Or is it always on or always off only?

My experience is that actinic bulbs don't really make much of a difference if they're always on, on my softie tank, I have 4-t5s and like a mix of "daylights" and "blue" (different brand names have different color names last I looked), I originally also tossed on 2 actinic (purple colored) bulbs, I think they were giesemann brand (german) and it really didn't do much. The light was already blued up, and the only think it added was a little night time viewing when the main lights were out.

 

[Raddogz]

Not sure about the 8 bulb setup, but the for the 4 bulb setup two separate plugs.

I think the vho's will complement the 10k reeflux quite well.

 

[GreshamH]

2 plugs, 4 bulbs on at a time.

 

[Elite]

There should be 4 ballasts in the 8 bulbs setup. If you want you can open it up and rewire them so you can have 4 switches instead of 2.

 

[GreshamH]

Why though? It doesn't need to have so many switches in my friends usage.

 

[dswong01]

Updated photo of tank. I am still working on setting it up when I have time but everything got transferred over from 125.

 

[LeviT]

That's looking really nice. I like your choice of fish too, there are several I have in mind if I ever get a larger tank.

 

[sfsuphysics]

You got mushrooms in there??? oooh don't play with fire like that!