Putter's first tank

[putter]

Well the green brain is looking just fine, and the sickly one is looking a bit better again today, more tan color to it now, still not seeing any kind of tentacles. Thinking may be to try a piece of frozen shrimp and lay it right on the brain itself, will this be a good or very bad thing to do? I am also wondering if the lunar lights may be to bright for the brains, maybe they be thinking it is cloudy?? Should have my cleaner crew and 2 fish on Wed if the shipping goes well. Here are a couple pics of the hack job I did on the canopy in order to install the LED lights to it.

[reeffreak]

Usually the smell of food in the water is enough to get my brains to extend its feeder tentacles.Maybe set a piece of shrimp next to it and see if it opens.It still maybe getting adjusted,hopefully soon the tentacles will be exposed.

[putter]

All I did was cut a template from plywood, lay it on the hood, trace it out then cut the hood with a jig saw.



The slots in the light fixture that the original legs slid into provided a good way to attatch the light to the hood, 5 small bolts was all it took, slid the bolts into the slots, drilled the canopy, set the hood onto the light, lined up the holes with the bolts, installed the nuts, lightly tightened and POOF one LED light attatched to the canopy.

[putter]

Are the tentacles easy to see?

[Doc]

first of all, great looking shop. that is one thing I wish I had in my house that I do not have...a place to do that kind of work.

As for the tenticles, yes, they are very easy to see and should extend out about 2 inches away from the coral in several different directions. my bubble coral is out right now and there are probably 50 different tenticles

-Doc

[putter]

Thanks doc, but it's not my shop, just where I work, but I do have the use of it anytime I need it. I will try to drop a piece of shrimp beside the coral and see what happens.

[reeffreak]

Nice professional looking canopy.
Good luck again with the brain.

[fatman]

Wow! Now what can I sale to get up the bucks to buy some LED'S like yours? How many watts LED to provide the same LUX as how many watts of Metal Halide light. Less lighting kWh/month, less chiller kWh/month! Maybe a bank loan? Or I could sale some body part(s).
More, bigger, more, bigger......rats, there I go again!

[putter]

Ok another quick question, just received the Marineland C-360 canister filter, 3 stages, bio balls and ceramic rings removed, leaves me one tray with a sponge, one with charcol, and 2 empty trays. Should I just run filter floss in the 2 empty ones? Was going to set it up as such....sponge on bottom, filter floss, charcol, filter floss and last, the polishing pad. Is this too much? Should I leave one tray empty? Oh and the fuge, plant it with mud and substrate, just mud or just substrate, I have some Fiji mud here now, came with the fuge.

[Doc]

are you running anything to control phosphates?

-Doc