My new tank (Red Sea Max 250)

alright sounds good
oh and since you work for RS, I had a funny thing happen to me, the included CD that says on it that because of the format may not run properly on laptop computers .... wouldn't work on both my bluray players, wouldn't run on my dvd player, wouldn't work in my desktop computer .... but it worked in my laptop lol ! I thought that was funny

 

how about some pictures!!

 

http://www.3reef.com/forums/show-off-your-fish-tanks/red-sea-max-250-a-61595.html

 

hot damn thats a fine tank!!! to piggy back off of people saying you'll go through a cycle. If the rock was from an already established tank, you should be golden!! Which i see is true...you are perfect!! Everything looks real nice!!!

 

Thanks !
I also purchased a Pinpoint pH monitor and Pinpoint salinity monitor (thank you Paypal/eBay 29% off and thanks for www.cultivatedcoral.com to be local too )
So I keep my eye out on all the stuff now
By leaving the hood open the temps stay in the 79-80.5 range now
Nitrite still <0.3
Nitrate 5
Ammonia 0
pH varies around 7.98 to 8.12
Salinity at 1.024

I did buy 2 Peppermint shrimps to help out with my few Ayptasia but one died yesterday already

I chose to use the Ayptasia X from Red Sea to remove the 3 biggest ones and wow, they're gone !!!

 

quick updates, well, I thought one of my peppermint shrimps had died because I found a dead shrimp head, but turns out they're still both alive ! I guess the head came from my old tank (I did have one shrimp just dissapear once, I thought the anemone ate it).
Nitrite is still < 0.3, Nitrate is 2, and ammonia is 0.1 (added some seachem prime to get it back down)
today however when I got back home (was gone for 2 hours) the main pump (2400) was not pumping water thru, I checked it and re checked it and no debris in it, so I opened it to clean it, nothing in there was dirty or clogged, so I put it bag together and same thing, almost 0 pressure. I removed the inlet and looked at the impeller while my wife turned it on for a couple of seconds, and it would just start turning one way, and the other and back and forth like that. I finally got it to turn just one way continuously and it made normal pressure again. Is that normal ? I would hate for that to happen if I was away for a few days !!!

 

oh and one of the peppermint shrimp has a black tail, why is that ?

 

hey man can you explain this mixed kelvin thing what lamps should he change for i have one of these tanks and i want a bluer look

 

I changed my bulbs from the standard set to 3 x UV 454s, 1 x ATI Blue Plus, 1 x RSM Actinic, and 1 x UV Actinic White. It came out just a bit more blue than before. You can notice a big reduction in the yellowish tint.

BTW, this thread has been dead for a decent while.

 

You know... I had a molt stuck in a power head... Made me think i lost a shrimp