purplereef
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Hello,
My name is Dan, and I'm new to BAR, but not to reef keeping. I have been reef keeping since 2000, and have been running an SPS dominated tank since 2005. That tank is a 375g display running 1600 watts of MH @20,000K (Radium).
I've frequented many of the LFS's in the Bay Area, and got my start at Aquarium Concepts in Hayward. No, not the one on Foothill, the other one--on B street. During those days, it was Nippon in SFO (gone), Aquarium Concepts (too far now), and Eddie's place in San Leandro (gone) that had the best selections of coral. Eddie, though, had the best SPS handsdown, but you had to play hooky from work to actually buy anything. Today, I go to Neptune, Aquatic Gallery, Atlantis, and my LFS, Aquatic Central.
I've gone through multiple large scale crashes, done tank migrations/moves, and have probably made more mistakes that I should have. I suppose that if you learn from mistakes one could call that 'experience'.
The current tank is recovering from a crash back in May of 2009. If all goes well, it should be fairly worthy in about one more year when the frags have grown into colonies.
I recently averted another crash when I went back to MH from LED after a month. The SPS struggled with that particular LED fixture. I guess that there are no shortcuts when it comes to the most sensitive corals.
I will try to post some pictures when I can get my hands on a camera that can do white balance against the Radiums. The Radiums don't look that blue to my eyes, but to the camera it looks like the pictures were taken at 15m.
Dan
My name is Dan, and I'm new to BAR, but not to reef keeping. I have been reef keeping since 2000, and have been running an SPS dominated tank since 2005. That tank is a 375g display running 1600 watts of MH @20,000K (Radium).
I've frequented many of the LFS's in the Bay Area, and got my start at Aquarium Concepts in Hayward. No, not the one on Foothill, the other one--on B street. During those days, it was Nippon in SFO (gone), Aquarium Concepts (too far now), and Eddie's place in San Leandro (gone) that had the best selections of coral. Eddie, though, had the best SPS handsdown, but you had to play hooky from work to actually buy anything. Today, I go to Neptune, Aquatic Gallery, Atlantis, and my LFS, Aquatic Central.
I've gone through multiple large scale crashes, done tank migrations/moves, and have probably made more mistakes that I should have. I suppose that if you learn from mistakes one could call that 'experience'.
The current tank is recovering from a crash back in May of 2009. If all goes well, it should be fairly worthy in about one more year when the frags have grown into colonies.
I recently averted another crash when I went back to MH from LED after a month. The SPS struggled with that particular LED fixture. I guess that there are no shortcuts when it comes to the most sensitive corals.
I will try to post some pictures when I can get my hands on a camera that can do white balance against the Radiums. The Radiums don't look that blue to my eyes, but to the camera it looks like the pictures were taken at 15m.
Dan
