CarmieJo, that is a stock photograph of the car. I actually still have it sitting in the dealer lot because their working on putting some extra gadgets in it for me. I actually will be taking her home on Friday, October 13, 2006. 289hp all wheel drive. Help me get to the Pet Store faster. :-)
JustDavidP, I will try to. My girlfriend didn't know what the big deal was when I started the financing for the car and when I took a test drive she said open her up. Which I did and she was sucked into her seat. :-) Alot power thats begs to be played with. It's like Prometheus stealing fire from the gods and giving it to man!
JustDavidP, I will try to. My girlfriend didn't know what the big deal was when I started the financing for the car and when I took a test drive she said open her up. Which I did and she was sucked into her seat. :-) Alot power thats begs to be played with. It's like Prometheus stealing fire from the gods and giving it to man!
Well everyone I've done some more work to the Reef Aquarium which I'm actually very proud of. Which I have sectioned below to be more precise.
Lighting
Well I definitely wated to start off with Metal Halide Lighting on this setup. So I installed at 150 watt 20,000k XM Metal Halide Bulb with Electronic Ballast. This lighting rig is set to come on at 10:00am and turn off at 10:00pm giving it a 12 hour photo-period. I also wanted to mimic as natural to a real life reef as possible with peak photo-period around noon. So I instlled 150 watt Power Compact 50 Actinic/50 Daylight bulbs to tun on at 3:00pm and run to 7:00pm giving it a 4 hour peak photo-period. Then when its time for the day to come to a close the Moonlights kick in to provide very low light in an attempt to replicate spawning cycles at night.
Filtration
I personally felt that 47 gallons may not be enough water to stray away from minor fluctuations within the water quality so I setup a 30 gallon refugium which was made by converting an old Wet/Dry Filter. Also their is about 30lbs a Seachem Tidal Grey Coast Substrate resuting in a 3 inch sand bed. I will be adding 50 lbs or more of live rock within the refugim to compliment the already existing 75lbs in the aquarium and 7lbs within the Fluval FX5 Canister Filter.
Last edited by JayBeDriften; 10-06-2006 at 02:33 AM.
I personally love the astethics of this sand. It does not sandstorm easily and contains a higher magnesium content the normal aragonite sand. I personally believe that it take a bit longer to cycle from my experience but I have no scientific data to backup that claim. My nassarius snails love this stuff and my clams have become quite fond of it as well. Also another added benefit you can say is that it does not give way to being called dirty by non aquarists that come over since its already black. It's also cheaper then most aragonite sand and you get 2 lbs. more for your money. $18.00 per 22 lbs. I will include water quality readings shortly every three days but I have been sumwhat busy with work, school and car.
so what are we doing with the tank??'
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