Busy weekend
Friday I setup the projector with a little help from Chris; he brought over an rca coupler so I could extend my component cables until my 50′ cable arrives from monoprice. The projector is sick in a dark room and not bad when the sun is coming thru our crappy bamboo blinds. I need a heavy curtain.
Yesterday I finished setting up the room; and then moved to my reef tank because the light was not turning on. It turns out that the live wire end of the double ended socket was burned to the point of the wire breaking. Thankfully it didn’t start a little fire, the insulation just hardened and cracked backwards. The main problem I have atm is that there’s no light supply store in my city that supports double ended (hqi) metal halide lamps. I’m pretty fucked time wise for my reef, since it needs light.
I did a bandaid fix yesterday by purchasing marine bulbs for my 48″ t8 fluorescent fixture that was on my freshwater tank, and put it over my 36″ reef tank. It looks ridiculous but the corals inflated under it and my ricordea yuma and other mushrooms (not sure the type) responded very well to the new source of par. Yay for low light?
I’m going to check out the local saltwater shop (Peter’s reef pond) to see if they sell Coralife t5 aqualights, because one would be a nice short term fix until I can afford a t5ho fixture. I really hope they sell them.
Oh yeah, I got a small bubble tip anemone on Friday and my female clown has already started to host in it. It’s so cool to see.
