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05/28/2010, 11:18 AM | #1251 |
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So does anyone have an issue with me transferring my Yellow Tang to the 180g before I pick up a cleanup crew? I can't imagine either stressing the bio load very much, especially a few snails. There hasn't been any algae cycles yet but I'm sure that's not to far off. I'll pick up a few snails along the way as the tank demands.
As long as the levels stay where they are for the next day or two I figured this would be a good weekend to git er done.
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As far as I'm concerned, tangs can almost be considered part of the clean up crew! You're not showing any ammonia or nitrites, I'm sure the tang would love to "stretch its legs" in the much bigger tank, and besides its normal food It will love grazing on the various brown algae cycles that will be heading your way soon!
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If your params are good, the tang will be quite happy!
just an aside but I gotta comment on your name Taqpol. Both my wife and I are geneticists (pop gen folks), she's a phd and managing a lab currently, and I use to manage a gov't wildlife research lab. Good times....
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Oh and I had a question or you Drummereef...did you even consider LED lighting? I'm looking at doing a very similar project to yours (except my basement is currently unfinished so I'm really starting from scratch) and I'm getting caught up in the LED vs MH debate....
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As I mentioned a couple of times through your thread...I only had hours, not weeks to perform a complete change over and only lost one fish and no corals. So, yes your yellow Tang will be very happy in its new surroundings. Not to mention will help your tank cycle better and faster imho. Good luck...
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Your tang should be fine in the new tank and will help it cycle a bit more.
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I know this question isn't directed at me... but current LED tech puts off more heat/less light per watt then MH. The biggest reason to go with LED is to create your own mix of light because LED's can be used to enhance a specific spectrum better then any other light source and can produce an exact wavelength at a better watt/heat ratio (that's why hospital OR's use them)
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On another note... I removed all the coral out of my 40g today and brought it to the LFS for store credit. It was mostly LPS and Softies with the exception of some Orange Monti Caps. I won't tell you how much they gave me but.... Nice to have a good LFS in town. Probably should have kept some but I figured there no time better than the present to take the SPS plunge.
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/hijack Brett, looks good! Make sure to take a picture of the tang in his new home. Its so great that you have good fish stores, I hope the ones down here turn out to be half as good as the ones I left.
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I absolutely do not think everyone should jump on the LED bandwagon, as there are pros and cons to both forms of lighting. As of now this technology is definitely unproven (I'm pretty sure Soundwave's system has been running healthily for over a year on LED light alone, but a year is not really long term yet) but I feel that the potential is amazing and if you can support the up front cost the potential for return on investment is there.
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My Last post on this. I do not believe that 72w of LED is anywhere near 250w of MH. (72w LED at 100 Lumens/watt is only 7,200 Lumens, 250w MH is 21000 Lumens) The difference in wattage is enough to make the difference in heat. MH do have more infrared then LEDs but LEDs do still put off infrared just not a spike in one wavelength. For corals if there is enough food they don't need as much light... I would like to know what his light levels were in his tank with MH and what they were when they changed to LED. I am waiting on the manufacture of my tank and have not purchased my MH lighting yet so if you could get him to PM me about his experience that would be awesome. I still have my doubts that the lighting is comparable but I'm interested. Also everyone is still learning and this is a developing technology.
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Say hello to my little friend...
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Sweet!
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Looks amazing although the fish looks lonely I think it needs some friends :-) How long you going to wait to add more livestock?
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Looks great Brett......been 10-weeks know for me and my rock has finally lost that white color. A new build is draining and exciting at the same time:-).
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So I'm considering selling my Aquacontroller Jr and upgrading to the Apex Lite system. What's everyone's thoughts?
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Hahaha, not really a "little" friend, is he? How long have you had that guy?
I bought an APEX but haven't actually received it yet. I think that the features/price of it blows the other controllers out of the water. Plus, if you are even remotely programming savvy you can make it do some amazing things.
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Full on Apex. I forget what all the lite was missing, but it was a much better deal to get the standard Apex.
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I think you are correct Brett......the Apex Lite is missing one additional port and for someone like me (a Tunze fan) is can't control Tunze's, which is obviously a huge feature for me. But I do think you can upgrade and/or expand with some add on equipment through Neptune. And BTW.....only a little coraline algae at this point. The color of the rock must be from other bacteria and alike. I just put a couple of more pieces of live rock so I am hoping that it will help spread the coraline a bit more.
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