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I've transferred my fish over to a new 185 that has Aqua Soil in the bottom. In old tank, I had regular gravel and lots of Malaysian Trumpet Snails to work through the gravel keeping it from clumping...

OK so my 185gal is coming along nice, have aqua soil, Lotsa Blyxa (thanks Tom), rare crypts, etc...

I just programmed my two 36" 8 bulb ati fixtures. I assumed that if i programmed the lighting to...

Nice jounal..I've been gone for a month or so, you swapped out the Eheims for a sump!

Stand was bought locally from custom builder so not Miracles, though the photos of their stands look great. Yes lights are now up will try to get a pic on here... ADA AS is in, driftwood in with...

I'm setting up a Miracles starphire 185 went with the 24 front to back measurement, but agree with Gerry and Tom 30 would be really nice. On the lighting, I bought two 36" x 8 ATI's. Bought 3/4" EMT...

slightly different on mine here are dimensions:

A 10"
B 9.5
C SAME
D SAME
E SAME
F SAME
G 6 13/16
H 4 9/16

Wow really coming along now

Hi Gerry I'm out of town for weekend will measure Sunday afternoon when I return

Moving along...so lights should arrive Wednesday, now I'm about to buy some emt conduit and bend it for hanging the lights.Not sure if I should go 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch conduit. I'm thinking of 3...

Progress!

So I ordered 2 x 36" ATI dimmable Sunpower each 8x39w fixtures !

Any opnions on the following bulb combo:

in each fixture: 2xGiesemann Midday, 1 ATI purple, 1 Korallen Zucht fiji...

pm sent I can hold these in a temporary tank for a couple weeks

Thanks
Ordered 2 x36 dimmable sunpowers this morning! Hopefully by end of next week I at least have the ADA AS, wood, rocks, lights, sump all up and running...getting close!

You made some good points, I especially like that I can view at a dimmer light in the evenings, as my wife already complains about glare on my 120 (she's in the room with the tank only in the...

Hi Gerry, tank looks great! The cardinals add alot of activity which is nice.

hey on the lighting, which ATI's are you considering. I'm in a quandry about whether to get 60" ATI which is not...

The garden stores have lava rock to use as a mulch can this or any other garden variety of lava rock be used?

From the pic I don't see any return or vortex on the right side, so is all the flow going from the left side with the overflow towards the right?

Curious, do you clean the algae off all 4 glass walls or leave it on some

Looks like from the video you attached the two ATI's together, if so what did you use

Thanks Bio for the link to culturing, since I don't have access to cheap worms I think I'll set up a 10 gal tank and culture my own!

Thanks for the pic I can see it fine, you've given me a good idea, I think I'll use two vertical hangers holding a horizontal bar to which I cann attach the ati units. Anyone know the weight of the...

So I'm going round and round on how to suspend the two 36" ati fixtures above the tank. Can't use the ceiling. I've read some posts on a reef forum about using metal pipe conduit from home depot and...

Wow...my reaction every time I see that tank!

It looks great

LFS wants $5 for about a tablespoons worth of black worms. I need a better source anyone?

And what height above tank do you find works best for your ati and bulbs

Mike - On getting the sump into the stand: I ordered the sump a while ago thinking I would place it under before tank arrived, but sump delivery got delayed and tank came and got place on stand...the...