Dbarnes 225 in wall re-build
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Here's my original build thread http://www.marinecolorado.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14542.
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I looked through that, that's awesome!! You have a legit fish room! I'm hoping to get one of those someday so that I can breed orchid dottybacks, mandarin dragonets, hippocampus ingens (pacific seahorse), yellow watchmen gobies, and banggai cardinals I would most likely have a centralized system with sandpipes and a heavy duty pump and filter like we have for the pool. But unfortunately.... I'm going to have to stick with my 35 gallon ingens/banggai tank and my two 3 gallon dwarf seahorse tanks 
oh haha yeah I could help you out with that. I wouldn't call myself an expert though, just a night owl who had to wait two months for her damn horses to arrive and spent every spare second she had waiting researching them...Anywho, yeah I could help you but really aside from the info I gave you all there is left is a shopping trip. Or I could browse around online and look for something.
Alright well I finally got the new lighting bracket built, I went with two 14k 250 watt halides in single units built by aquamedic. I then mounted the AIs between them and plan on the running the AI's in the morning and eveing with whites then when the halides come on they will switch to blue and royal blue only, pretty much serving the same purpose as a stunner strip. I went with the uhsio bulbs sense they tend to have a whiter 14k then others but not near as white as the 10k. The whole point in the switch was I was unhappy with the growth rates under the LEDs only. It seemed I had less success rate with corals under the LEDs only, hence the new halides. The rack is built entirely of aluminum and stainless steel so it should never rust or cause any problems like that. Over all the coloration is great and the coverage is better than I had expected. Next step is getting a bigger pump for my reactors, looks like I will be putting on a iwaki 55 and hopefully that is sufficient to run all three reactors and a refugium, if not in will be getting a third pump that will be isolated to the refugium. And as we all don't care about anything but pics .... here ya go a couple in the process and a couple finished products.
Rack after all the bracing was in
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New halide fixtures awaiting installation
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Temporary mounting of the AI's
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Rack after all the bracing was in
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New halide fixtures awaiting installation
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Temporary mounting of the AI's
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OK and here are the completed pictures of the new mounts
New mount with halides
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Coverage is really good, maybe need a little week on the right. Im really happy with the overall color as it seems to work really well.
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New mount with halides
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Coverage is really good, maybe need a little week on the right. Im really happy with the overall color as it seems to work really well.
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