Vics CD 180G Peninsula

[civics14]

just a nice pic of this wall hammer

 

[skrappy]

acro warfare starting to happen

Time to frag I'd certainly like to trade you something for a frag of your cool wild acro when one is available.

 

[civics14]

Time to frag I'd certainly like to trade you something for a frag of your cool wild acro when one is available.

I don’t have room for anything else but which one are you looking at?

 

[skrappy]

I don’t have room for anything else but which one are you looking at?

This one.

 

[civics14]

swung by and visited jay last week and couldn’t help myself

 

[scottw]

swung by and visited jay last week and couldn’t help myself

Hard to pass on his corals when they are in your face haha. I got a glitter myself. They look amazing as do the rest of your corals!

 

[civics14]

Hard to pass on his corals when they are in your face haha. I got a glitter myself. They look amazing as do the rest of your corals!

Yeah. If I had the money, those 24K torches he has are amazing.

 

[civics14]

https://imgur.com/a/ZAXI6T3

 

[civics14]

Day 1 of dosing. 1/4 tsp to start.

 

[civics14]

These mushrooms are like 4-5” across

 

[ichthyoid]

One of the most beautiful reef tanks I’ve seen, well done!

 

[civics14]

One of the most beautiful reef tanks I’ve seen, well done!

Thanks!

 

[civics14]

1/30/23 -> 10/13/23
Quite a change

 

[shimshimshinil]

Saw this tank yesterday. A true beauty. A slice of the ocean.

 

[Egun]

Very nice tank hope mine turns out as good

 

[civics14]

Just some eye candy and a strange find. Out if no where, a torch coral started to grow out of one of my rocks.

 

[shimshimshinil]

Just some eye candy and a strange find. Out if no where, a torch coral started to grow out of one of my rocks.

wow that torch out of the rock work. Holy cow thats cool

 

[civics14]

wow that torch out of the rock work. Holy cow thats cool

Yeah. I’m not even sure where it came from. These were all dry rock too. Then again, I have 2 aiptasia that came out of the rock as well. Just so weird.

 

[shimshimshinil]

it is a nice color torch too

 

[civics14]

Picked up some t5 retrofit from @Jayo , but I wanted to use the euroquatics led bulbs. Unfortunately the fixture t5s had the bulbs angled at a 45degree angle out from center, which would be okay if you’re using a standard t5, but the LED t5s were a single direction.

So, I had to removed the old end caps, bought some generic ones from Amazon. I went with non-waterproof ones because I need it more narrow to fit on the fixture itself. I run my lights 18” off the water in open air, so I don’t think it will be an issue. I’ll inspect it in a few months to confirm.

Meanwhile, the endcaps of the fixture were steel vs the body was aluminum so there was a lot of rust. I had to sand it down and paint it.

In the end, lights turned out great. I’ll get it mounted later this week. I’ll get some aluminum flat bars and cut it to length as needed.