Chief's 34 Starfire Solana!!

[NYreefNoob]

yeah i dont care for the bulb color much, and sux no one makes bulbs other then 3k and 6k for that lenght, my corals love the light though and my wife loves the lower electric bill, figure ill eventually add led for antic help and night mode

 

[jackson6745]

Chief, how is the stock return pump? Is it worth replacing with an eheim?

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Right now the stock pump is sufficient but if it were to go bad I would replace it with either the eheim or the new mj

 

[KathyC]

Very cool tank Bren...more pics please!

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Some Moon Light Shots

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Some updated shots

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

 

[Awibrandy]

Very nice Brendan!!:hug:

 

[Quang]

very nice b! about time you gave us a FTS.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

nice rack! :inlove:

 

[jackson6745]

You have some nice stuff in there!
I have the same green HA this is on a few of your rocks. I am currently trying a sea hare. I'll let you know if I have any success.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Thanks Scarf.

That's the heal up rack, Richie's Acan's took a turn for the worse in my last crash but I have 4 heads hangin on, the Tubs are going to be grown out and at least 2 plugs given back to the great person who gave them to me. The acro was a test to see if I could still do the SPS thing but it is extremely unhappy and brown, still extending green polyps tho. The little orange spec is a single baby of an orange acan and I am trying to get it to grow.

The rack I bought at TFP this summer, I forget who makes it but I like it better than the eg crate one LOL.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Rich I was going to send you a PM about thet, Have you noticed it is in high flow areas in your tank too?

 

[rookie07]

Is that a small vortech on the back panel? how do you keep the dry side dry?

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Yes that is the MP10, I had a dry dock made for it by a guy on Nano reefs. This one is made for the MP10, I have another that is made for the MP20 sitting here because I switched vortechs and the older dock the acrylic and the back wall of the tank were too thick for the MP10 magnet.

 

[NYreefNoob]

mexican turbo's cleaned up the hair algea in my nano i had it alot worse and took them 3 days and it was gone

 

[CHEMCHEF]

Nice looking tank Chief. I just Downsized to a Solana. I also have the same T-5 light. I feel it is a little to yellow also. I am thinking about changing to four Actinic & 2 daylight bulbs, and reversing the timers. I would think that two daylight bulbs are enough.
Did you ever use the stock skimmer?,, because mine seems to be skimming like crazy, & I have heard nothing but bad things about this skimmer.

 

[ocholoco]

hey

it looks good man, keep up the good work.

 

[Quang]

Update!

 

[JonnyJ]

hey chief, first off i love the tank, upgraded to the solana a few weeks ago and love it.

i have a few questions

1st off i have the nova extreme pro as well, did you end up switching the bulbs?
you mentioned 2 daylight rest actinic?

2nd, where did you get the dry box made? can you link me up? im looking to get the mp10 this month.