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    Posted: January 21 2011 at 5:21pm
On Tuesday I bought Sukie's 90g setup and have since been putting a lot of time into trying to recreate some of the awesomeness I have seen her come up with.  I got the tank, stand and canopy from her; the sump and sand from my friend Brendan; and I ordered my light setup from hellolights while grabbing the ballasts from a guy in SLC.  I have pictures but i need to shrink them so I can put them on here.

I've done the plumbing, mixed water, etc and am just about to get the water flowing between the tank and sump.

I am getting live rock/sand and a skimmer tonight from PJGravis at which point I will get this bad boy running!


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Cry I will have to say. . that I was very sad to see this setup go, even though it was sitting in my garage gather dust.  I was really attached to it.

But I'm super glad it went to another responsible reefkeeper who's going to make better use of it.Clap

Can't wait to see pictures!!!
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Hopefully I will have time to shrink some pics soon...but in the meantime, lights question.  I have 2 magnetic ballasts all wired up to a mogul base socket and I am using Coralvue 14K 175W and they aren't working.  The ballasts are getting warm/hot so I know juice is getting into them just fine but the bulbs aren't even thinking about starting up.

I remember when I bought the bulbs it said something like "Operate on a probe start ballast" so does that mean if my ballasts are pulse start then it won't work?  Ugh, I swear on tank setups if it isn't one thing it's another.  But still, totally worth it once this is all figured out.
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Figured out my ballasts are M57's which are probe start so I should be fine...  This is flusterpating.  Com and Lamp wires connected to the lamp mogul base, 120V and Com attached to plug.  Hmmm.  I feel like sherlock holmes, except I am at the part of the book where I am losing. Lol.
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Mwa ha ha.  Sherlock Holmes wins the day!  We have lights.  One last plumbing issue and hopefully we'll be running.
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Top picture shows a problem I am trying to overcome and don't know how to at this point.  The left side is the drilled overflow hole and if you can tell there are 2 little cracks around where it was drilled.  I put in the bulkhead and it leaks because of these two chips around the hole.  How do I repair this so I can make it work?
 
The other two are the only pics I had on my phone of where I am at in the process.  I like the dark with the lights on. :)
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Silicone around the bulk head should do the trick
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why are you using 175w halides for a 90g?
The light will really get low torward the bottom of the tank
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You could also try plumbers putty around the bulkhead to overcome the chips.

 
BTW - I think 175w MH are perfect for that tank.
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2x175w are more than enough for this tank, awesome tank. cant wait for new picturesSmile
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Originally posted by Josh95 Josh95 wrote:

why are you using 175w halides for a 90g?The light will really get low torward the bottom of the tank


I had a 90 gallon with 175 watt lights and it did great! Grew sps all the way on the bottom. I think he will be fine!
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Yeah, I thought about going with 250 watts, but I felt good about it.  I am also running 2 PC at 65 watts each and will eventually add 2 more.  You'll see once I get around to shrinking all my pics to a size where I can post them on here.  I'm doing the fix around the overflow in a minute, so here's to good luck!
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You dont need to shrink them just use photobucket.com. All you have to do is upload the pic copy the img link under the picture and inset it here in a post. Its free to use Big smile
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I use 150's over my 90 gallon without a problem.
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