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by **gumbii** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:39 am

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hey schig... do you know where i can get a 250w MH retrofit kit for cheap shipped...? i'm thinking about upgrading my lighting system... i'm thinking about going 520w total lighting... i got the hook ups on all kinds of SPS corals in the fish club that i didn't know of before... they're giving me huge frags for 5-10 bucks each... but i need to upgrade lights, and get a chiller... fail... probably score another two koralia's for the tank to don't you think...?

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by **schigara** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:52 am

Sorry man, dunno. I got my blueline e-ballasts cheap locally as well as the reflectors, DE sockets and bulbs.

One of my LFS owners keeps an awesome SPS/mixed tank with just an array of T5's and his stuff grows much faster than mine with halides. He has about 30x's turnover rate and I have about 40x's.

Also, flow is great and helps to suspend organics in the water column to be skimmed and keep nitrates low but too much flow just makes the SPS grow thick and slows the outward growth. This has been my experience with SPS.

by **gumbii** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:06 am

hmm... i have to sit down and map everything down then... also my budget... i think my budget for this will be a grand... that's lights, chiller, and water movement, and maybe a auto-top off... hmm...

by **gumbii** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:10 am

hmm... i might be able to spend more cash on it... it seems that i got an email from a customer wanting two demekin goldfish... so make that 2 grand limit...WooT WooT!...

by **schigara** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:24 am

Don't fret too much over water movement with SPS. A member of the club here is an SPS junkie with more that 120x's turnover rate. His SPS look like body builders on steroids and take forever to grow but he could probably throw in a cheeseburger a day and it would be churned up and skimmed out without raising the nitrate level at all.

by **gumbii** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:33 pm

that's dope... i wouldn't mind fat branching corals...

by **schigara** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:05 pm

Here's an example of what semi heavy flow has done to a coral of mine. The first and second pic are 6 months apart.

http://schigara.smugmug.com/photos/2749 ... 96xE-L.jpg

http://schigara.smugmug.com/photos/2749 ... exWE-L.jpg

http://schigara.smugmug.com/photos/3375 ... vRJG-L.jpg

by **gumbii** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:01 pm

damn that's crazy... and kind of ugly... lol... sorry... but i atleast you have SPS...

by **schigara** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:37 pm

lol yeah. It's gonna look better once it grows outward and branches more.

It's funny though, out of the 25 or so species of SPS in my tank, that one is the main one that everyone in my club wants a frag of. Well, that and the Blue Tort.

http://www.geocities.com/drcunlimited/R ... ro_002.jpg

http://schigara.smugmug.com/photos/3011 ... LvWF-L.jpg

by **gumbii** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:25 am

that's bad arse...

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