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Man if you just don't go with some 250 watt halides in lumenarc reflectors and some ai primes for that (blue looks) you will spend a fortune in leds. I have yet to see success in a tank large as yours with leds.
Halides and T5's
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What's your stuff worth to you? When I moved I had apt of rare chalices and acans. Colony's of sps that had grown out for years. If you don't age the water or use aged water at least make new water and age that in the house instead. Something for like every 20 gallons of new water add s 5 gal...
If your new house is purchased already and is move in ready go ahead and get yourself some stuff.
The Basics
Manual Timers
2 or 3 Brutes from Home Depot
Some 5 Gallon Buckets
A rolling 4 Wheel Dolly from Harbor Freight
The Procedure
A) Scour the forums/Craigslist for 30/40/ or 80 gallon Frag...
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/pax-bellum-llc/157340-what-arid-how-does-work.html
Pax Bellum LLC
Balanced Bio-Systems. Achieved
http://www.pax-bellum.com
ARID and 2200 Gallons!
How does it Work?
Cmantis post some pics.. like i said they would do group buy wholesale pricing if we ordered from the club. Pending board approval of course. need some more information though.
They never mentioned the BRAND of the LED's that they are using. The LED's were 6500K and Red. Equidistant up the entire length of the rod. I'm not defending them or anything but
I've used TAPE led's before and they barely generated any real heat. These heat sinks were hot to the touch.
I think its a Novel Idea. especially unlike refigums now.... you CAN allow the output to be direct into your return section to pump those little critters into the tank.
Harvesting is by removig hte top flange... pulling it UP out of the water and taking a few handfuls off the macro off. Then Sliding it back down into the system. The demo they had looked nice with red macro in 1 section and green in another section.
I asked questions like...
Q: Won't algae...