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MACNA 2014

I am at MACNA in Denver, CO this weekend and I plan to post throughout the event the cool new products that I am seeing. The first thing this weekend that I have seen that I think is the star of the show is from Jelly Fish Art.  They are manufacturing all in one decorative aquariums for Moon Jellyfish.  They are stylish and look very easy to use.  They will even ship the moon jellyfish to you.  All you need to do is add saltwater.  Then even sell and send you the food.  They have all in one filtration systems...


240 Reef Aquarium Canopy

Since I started my 240 gallon reef aquarium over 2 years ago I have wanted to make an aquarium canopy for it.  Finally I got around to it.  I built the canopy because I wanted to add supplemental T-5 lighting and to help keep in the humidity and heat in the aquarium.  Since the 240 reef aquarium is in the basement I have a hard time keeping the aquarium warm in the winter.  Trapping the heat from the metal halide lighting in the canopy should help heat the water. The aquarium canopy is build out of oak 1x2's, 1x3's and...


240 Reef Aquarium

My main reef aquarium is a 240 Envision acylic's cube with the dimension 4'x4'x2'.  It is set up as a peninsula so it can be viewed from 3 of the four sides.  It is filtered by a 120 gallon sump with an ASM G4X protein skimmer.  The 240 reef aquarium is on the same sump as four other aquariums for a total water volume of about 400 gallons.  The other aquariums include a 30 gallon refugium, a 3o gallon cube, a 30 breeder and a 25 breeder.  The three additional aquariums all house my breeding pairs of clownfish.  The 240...