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I looked at these myself awhile back. Couldn't quite decide, as the colors don't go above 6500. May try this out on my "soon to be" frag tank, just to see what happens. The prices sure seem to have gone up though, since last I looked at them.

Not to discourage you, but if your desire is to REDUCE your involvement with your tank - conversion to a salt water reef tank is definitely not the way to go. The complexity of reef keeping over fresh water goes up by a large factor. My 40 gallon reef requires much more of my time than my 90...

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How did trap him? I suspect I have some the the same variety ( only smaller) doing the same thing.

So how did you initiate the cut to make the plunge hole to begin with?

I ran across this site when I was asking similar questions about my own tanks. http://badmanstropicalfish.com/articles/article28.html

If you do buy it, I'd like to hear how it goes. It's certainly a great price. But, me personally. Before I put it on my tank, I'd plug it into something that would trip on overload, place the lamp on a concrete floor with no flammables around it and run it for a few weeks. I've seen too many...

I had a few nervous moments Saturday night. A short while after the winds kicked up, we lost power. I didn't immediately panic, as we rarely lose it for long, only for a few minutes in this case. But, it was enough to send to me to the basement with a flashlight, rooting around for those old...

I calibrate mine with the RO water from my filter. I also make sure the calibrating fluid is within a degree or 2 of my tank water. Does your refractometer automatically compensate for temperature differences? If not, do you equalize temps? I was using the cheap floating beam hydrometer before...

Anybody use anything like this? Called "Rock lifts". I found out about them from this thread. http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85616 The purpose, from what I can find, is to keep your rocks up off the sand. Supposedly to allow clearing detritus out from under rocks and to...

I'm in the process of setting up my new 72, but I'm stalled on what to put on the bottom. I've always run my smaller tank with a Jaubert Plenum in the bottom of it. I'm trying to decide whether or not to duplicate that in the larger one - or do something else entirely. There is so much...

I am going to be using an old wet/dry unit as my sump/fuge. I was planning to use the same pump as both my return and to power the skimmer, as it has a lot of excess capacity.(my skimmer came without a pump) But, this places my skimmer AFTER the refugium. Everything I've read says flow should...

I'm kind of leaning that way myself. One hurdle is the wife, who was told, "This tank is replacing that one, and the old one is going away." She's already giving me the evil eye over the 55 sitting in my basement that was recently replaced by a 90 for my cichlids. "I was gonna get rid of...

That's not exactly a deep sand bed, but a Jaubert Plenum instead. The bottom of the tank is covered with a number of 3/4" pieces of PVC pipe topped by a platform of egg crate material. The egg crate is covered with a layer of plastic screening to keep the sand out(maintaining the plenum). A...

I've had my 40 gallon reef up for about a year. Recently, I've become "less than satisfied" with it and looked to upgrade a bit in size. Ogre997 had just recently completed his own upgrade(72 to 175 - some upgrade), and so had a 72 gallon bowfront he no longer needed. I snapped that up from him...

You just can't state it any plainer than that. Those words ought to be posted at the top of every reef forum everywhere. You ought to have to state it like the pledge of allegiance before you can own a reef tank.

You can try the Melev method, which is boil some RO water, inject it into the anemone then scrape the sucker off with a dental tool. http://www.melevsreef.com/pics/bta/not/majano.html

Heh. Didn't mean to put the question inside the quotes.

What does "gram positive/gram negative" mean?

I'd never even heard of this practice, till I ran across this Wiki page by accident. (I was looking for info on PC lighting degradation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdriven_fluorescent_light It doesn't sound like a particularly safe practice. Anybody here ever try overdriving?