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Today one of my MH pendats wasnt lit when I got home. I checked all connections and everything was good, checked the ballast and it was cold. I unplugged it from my power strip and when I plugged it back in the bulb fired, started to go and withing 5second it went off. I waited 15min again to...

I have been having this issue for some a month or so now. The only new addition to the tank is Cross Hatch trigger and I highly doubt it is that. Usually when I wake up in the morning for the past few weeks I see tons of SPS with snapped off tips and I dont just mean the very tip, ive seen whole...

For the past few months I havent been able to really have much luck with caps or montis in my tank. I have a setosa montipora for 6months or so and it is growing great and has great color and polys. I had a really nice white with neon green monti that grew like a weed as well as a while and...

Just wondering if you are able to dim t5's that are driven from an ice cap 660 ballast. anyone know?

I did a water change early this morning before any of the lights came on and I noticed a bunch of my sps that during the day looks to have really tiny polyp extension had some decent poly extension. So tonight I figured I would try and get a look way after the lights have been off and the room...

Im looking for input from people with larger tanks in the 6'+ range. On my 180 Im running two mp40s, just recently I have started playing with the wave modes (normally I run it in reefcrest) Ive been letting it run in sort pulse, full speed and maximum time delay, not really getting a wave at...

Cycling has been pretty big in my family for quite some time with a lot a of triatletes in it. Ive done mountain biking my whole life, but just recently got into road riding. I started racing this summer and have pretty much gotten out of freestyle motocross and streetbike stunt riding, which...

Really trying to add some rare clams to my reef. Everywhere I look its mostly the same blue croceas, blue maximas and squamis. Ive been dying to find a black/white maxima, and some different color varities. Anyone have some good input for me?

My girlfriend just called me telling me she was doing a water change in her tank and would call me when she was done. Well I just heard from her and fish are probably dying. Her long nose hawkfish that is always out and about is nowhere to be found and her copper band butterfly is just basically...

Well after dismantling and draining my whole tank to move the tank a measly 1.5" to be able to fit vortechs on the tank, I cant for the life of me get my rock work to look good again. After my Reefer Keeper Elite broke and the rock work has just be in piles I have been pretty down and out on...

I went to go change the time on my reef keeper due to the time change today and somehow where the bus cable plugs into the back of the head unit the female end came out completely breaking the very minimal solder on the 4 prongs. I can solder but not any where good enough to play around on a...

My girlfriend purchased a prewired t5 retro w/ 660 ballast from Ice Cap during the swap. She wants to be able to isolate the actinics from the daylights. I know I can add a on/off switch to the wires going to the actinics but is there a way that I can somehow get this on a timer? The retro only...

I know I should just call up ecotech but I guess I came down with a severe sinus infection over night, i feel like im dead and cant talk. Anyway I was trying to hook up my vortechs I got from the Frag swap this weekend. One of them works fine, the other was running fine for a minute or two but...

just wanted to get some input of how hard you think this is actually going to be. I need to move my 180 over to the left about 1.5 inches. this is an in wall tank with only a few inches of space on each side of the tank. It is sitting on smooth plywood. I am trying to minimize taking livestock...

Im thinking it is ick, not sure as I have never had it before. Overnight my powder blue tangs head(black part) is covered in white dots looking like salt so I am thinking it is ick. Not another fish in the tank has it. What plan of action should I take? I just got home now so there i am guessing...

Well some of you know that I purchased an RKE and as most people are are running ACs i figured I would start a thread on here since it looks like im the resident RKE guy on here. At first after reading some reviews I hated the unit before I even starting using it. New firmware had to be...

As some of you know I orginally built my 180 with a closed loop consisting of two 1.5" inlets and four 1" outlets. The four outlets are down low in the tank and were going to run my spray bar setup. This was also all built when I planned on staying BB. Anyway I shut the closed loop off a few...

What kind of skimmer would you guys recommend for a 55gal reef? I always end up over killing on skimming which in my eyes is never a bad thing, right now I have an kent nautilus ex skimmer with mag 18 on there right now and I just think its too much lots of churning and bubbles in the sump, I...

Im finally getting rid of my flame angel as Im now have seen him numerous times nipping at my SPS, he is fine with softies so he will be going in my girlfriends tank with only soft corals. Ive been trying for about 4 hours to catch this guy, keeping putting in food, turned the lights off etc...

Finally made my tank officially an in wall tank. Finished off the cabinets underneath and put the top peice on. Didnt come out exactly how I wanted it to but it still looks really good for the crappy A/C sofits that were in the way.