Ill be glad too bud....I've got everything up and running here's my setup:

55 gallon drilled with a wier overflow

800gph hydor koralia powerhead (traded miss Hanna for my marine land 1250..it kept stiring up my sand bed)

Two t5 54watt HO double bulb fixturesa piece from home depot....I had to buy power cords

A 32watt plant bulb
10000k 54 watt bulb
54watt 420 actiniks x2

1.5" sand bed (when I switched tanks I decided against my 6" sand bed)

8# of live rock
10# of not so dry rock lol
3# puece of lava rock
75# of man made rock made by me my wife and kids...dyed turquoise, purple, and natual....my 4 year old daughter's fingernails are still dyed purple...her gloves kept coming off

20 gal sump with 15 gal of water

Rio 800gph return pump

Bubble Magus 3.5 skimmer

3 damsels selling them to miss hanna when tank is fully cycled

2 turbo snails
1 bumbble bee snail
3 pyramid snails
1 red/white stripped reef shrimp

Shaving brush plant
A haelemedia plant

A chunk of chaeto
A chunk of red/green macro alge (can't think of the name)


I think I've got everything I need....I'm going to put mirors in the cannopy this weekend at all different angles to dustribute light a lot better. Paint the cannopy and stand and put a high powered cpu fan in the hood to pull some heat out. The bulbs have added about 4º of tempurature but I'm still in the green.

I've had a small alge bloom in the last few days and I have 4 or 5 small red slime spots.....I have unplugged all my lights except the one in the sump area and covered the tank withca blanket till friday (besides feeding times) to stop or at least slow the photosynthesis cycle way way down


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