Another trick is you do not want the rock middle of the tank is to just mount the lights further back if doing a rock wall on back glass or angle them to face back towards it a little when mounting.
Well it’s a peninsula tank so I’m gonna have to play around with it.
That is actually better lol. Do not have to worry about 2 corner overflows and a centerline rock structure is preferred for those.
Will do, thanks for all the advice and information.
If you really wanted real tanning room you’d have some MHs sans the protective glass on them. Speaking of which, do you have any old MH equipment?
Please also tag me if you do a build thread.
I do, but it is put up in boxes int he garage loft. I think I have stuff from 150w all the way up to 1000w. From fixtures, to ballasts, to bulbs.
If/when I set up a new system I am heavily leaning this way.
Put it this way, I have been reefing since I was born. Literally, my dad had an SW tank in 1964. It pulled water from the beach and drained back into the beach. It was crude and flooded the house a few times a year, but we kept things alive and it worked lol. That tank stayed up until 1981 and then he moved off the beach and setup a another tank. It used SW from the area, but he had to bring it home. I have most all of his stuff and all of the stuff I have used over the years.
Some would say I am a hoarder, but hoarders do not label the totes stuff is in, update the list on the tote if something is added/removed and properly store all items out of the way. So, I say I am a collector......
This, more than likely, will be the best post I read on the forum today. I absolutely love this kind of thing! (BTW - sounds like we are very close in age which I think we may have discussed before but I cannot be certain because of, well, age!)
I am a little younger. Everyone just calls me grandpa, as I act like I am 70 and my bones are probably there also. Well what bones I have left that are not titanium lol.
Completely agree and I’m surprised you’ve never bothered to make a spreadsheet. I had a spreadsheet, with multiple tabs of course, for all the “stuff” I had bought, made or stolen through the years. Unfortunately, all that stuff and computer the spreadsheet disappeared when I went through my 125 lb weight loss.
This is the most current from 01/07/2023
I do have an excel workbook with all items noted, location of said items, and status of said item lol. It is saved to my phone, tablets, in the cloud and I even have a printed copy that sits in my "notes" book.
My weight loss was well before any cloud. Otherwise, I would have had everything backed up to it as I do now.
That is why I also print things lol. I do not trust any of it.
Any reason you wouldn't want to go with newer MH equipment? Is it one of those things that were built like tanks before and lacks quality now?Oh, one more thing, if you ever have the itch or inkling to separate with any of your MH equipment please contact me FIRST!
