CaptJab

I have 25 pounds of premium live rock from ARC and another 15 pounds or so from local stores. I also have a pair of clowns, pistol shrimp and goby, and a blue springers damsel, not to be confused with a blue damsel, these are great tank mates. 60 lbs of Tropic Eden Reef Flakes Medium sized colony of tri color vilida, small Jedi mind tricks monti, a decent colony of Duncan coral, a few heads of frog spawn, a decent sized colony of acans and a couple acan frags, a meteor shower, and a frag of staghorn, and possibly another one or two corals that I’ve forgotten about. The tank has been neglected and I have a pink type algae growing, maybe cotton candy algae. Asking $300 or best offer for all the above.

I would imagine some sort of butterfly fish may eat them.

Someone buy this stuff so I can buy Matt's light and skimmer.

Great post.

Skunk Cleaner Shrimp. The yellow cleaners with the red & white stripe down their back.

Great pictures Kevin.

Thanks Josh, I'll download that for sure.

Thanks for the compliment Kevin and thank you for answering all my questions in the past about LEDs.

Test after re-assembling. And a picture of it over the tank with only the LED's on. Sorry, these pictures were taken with my phone so the blue looks horrible.

My next step was adding the LEDs to the u channel. Unfortunately I did not have 25 working LEDs, so I'll be adding some more in the near future. Then I started re-assembling the fixture.

I then purchased a 2"x1" U channel of aluminum. I drilled and tapped the aluminum to hold 25 Cree XT-E Royal Blues. I drilled some larger holes in the end of the U channel so I could mount it to the fixture. I removed the unused T5 end caps so I could use the existing holes on the fixture incase I ever wanted to go back to all T5's

I have a Aguatinics Constellation 7 bulb 48" T5 fixture that has two ballast that can be set to run 2x54, 3x54, or 4x54 T5's. One leg of a ballast went out so I swapped the two ballast around in the fixture so that the center bulb of the 7 was disconnected from the ballast. I've been wanting to run a T5/LED combo for a while now, so I took advantage of the bad ballast. Here is the fixture after I unhooked the bad leg of the ballast.

That's looking great.

http://www.creative-acrylics.com/ They are located in Pensacola.

Great write up Kevin. I just wanted to add that if anyone is going to go the high mg route they need to stick with the Kent Tech-M that you recommended. Other reefers have tried raising the mg level with other products and did not notice the Bryopsis die off as others did with the Tech-M. Seems as there may be an extra ingredient in the Tech-M that makes it do its magic on Bryopsis.