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[Bermont]

so, recently i manged to get my hands on a chiller and i thought, why not give marine a go, got my hands on a metal halide light, a skimmer and purchased all i needed and came up with this.

 

Pic with Moon Lighting

Some pics of the corals.

One of the WC clown fish i got

 

Gonna let it cycle for a bit and will be adding a blue tang, some peppermint shrimp, maybe some crabs, thinking of some blenny's and gobys aswell.

 

Will post pics over time as i add more corals.

 

Tank: Aqua one Aquagrande 1200

Equipment:

150w Metal Halide

4' Twin Glo T5HO

Aqua one Hangon Skimmer

Halea Chiller

Otto 1200lph internals as temp wavemakers

300 watt inline heater for winter

 

Got an inline UV on its way and 2 wave makers.

 

Feel free to comment 

[dazzabozza]

I'd raise the light fitting Bermont to give better spread and will prevent too much heat transferring to the water.

[JackMack]

Looking good man!
Can't wait to see it once the corals take off.

[malawiman85]

Looks like you have some good rock there to get started with... Be careful, marine can really suck you in. Looks like a cracking little setup in the making. Cant wait to see this as it progresses.

[Bermont]

yeh i plan on making a PVC rack to hang all the lighting from, its just well the setup raped all my money lol, but will be investing in marine LED over the lext 2 months definately, setting up the halide to run for 6 hours a day max and will use HOT5 for the regular lighting and run moon lighting b4 and after the sun cycle

[Bermont]

Got the timers running and ive made my stand for the lights, ill be painting this eventually to match the tank and stand and ill probably make these for a few more tanks, can even make double ones etc, sky is the limits lol

 

 

not bad for $40 and 20 mins, if you got a scroll saw you could pump one of these out every few minutes lol

[dicky7]

a dam fine idea you could make a bit from it