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So Edwin's thing was just practice! Congrats Rob. Give a holler when you need a hand.

Fired up the T5's by installing a Fulham Workhorse 5 ballast with ATI Blue Plus bulbs. I've been told, with my application of 54 W bulbs, that this ballast will overdrive the bulbs as well, but only by 7 percent. Visually it's a bit brighter. Here's an LEDs only (full on) and LEDs...

Deceptive Sizes So the stuff I ordered a couple days ago is trickling in. I don't know why, but my little pea brain envisioned the sizes of the items I purchased from the pictures they provided. Granted, there was no reference to judge size, but my brain did it anyway. Here are the...

Steve, glad to see that someone has finally found Nemo. I was beginning to believe that a good old regular clownfish was more rare than any of these fugly clowns you find everywhere. You definitely have a hit with me and any little kids that come to visit.....Nemo is in the house! Must be...

It's gone!

Deja vu Reef Gadget. This was designed and manufactured by an NJRC member.....brain fart keeps me from remembering the name....big guy from South Jersey. Unfortunately no longer manufactured. If I was Oprah, one of my favorite things!

Hey Tim, I was talking to a friend tonight about your tank. He asked about the size and I commented about 8 by 4 by 4 feet. His comment was that that was more than I think the 600 gallons you quoted. So we went to a tank calculator and it calculates out to 968 gallons. What are we missing?

I remember these from my diving days in the early 70's when I dove the Florida Keys. They would literally cover the bottom where you couldn't even find a spot to kneel or touch down. What was wild is that they could "see" you (my guess is the shadow), and the spines would follow you as you...

The Arctic Silver is a pretty good thermal conductor, but it also is an electrical conductor....it actually contains silver. This will be used between the finned aluminum and the flat plate aluminum. So with the LEDs, the electrical connections are very close to where the contact is made with...

The trigger has been pulled.....I've order the stuff needed to fix this fixture. Actual costs (tax not included) 50 Blue Leds - $19.99 Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Compound - $6.99 Arctic Silver 5 (2 pack) - $10.47 So the materials costs (minus tax) to fix the fixture comes to...

A little disappointed............I was expecting more than just two supermodels! :o

Shamed Back Into T5's With all the folks adding T5's back into their LED systems, I too bit the bullet and added two 54W bulbs to my tank. I still have my entire retro IceCap system, and even though I have an IceCap 430 ballast to run these two bulbs, I'm not going to use it. I'm...

The bother is their spines.....they'll move stuff all around for you with their spines.....maybe even wear a couple frags. Otherwise they won't "eat" anything other than algae.

Thank you for your kind offer. However, I have a slave-boy....I mean future son-in-law....who is a student at Stevens Institute striving for a degree in Electrical Mumbo Jumbo. He has offered to do everything on this fix. With his schedule, it most likely will be an upcoming weekend...

Well I was about ready to pull the trigger and do the repair....and then I saw THIS. Another Apollo user with fried LEDs. Granted, he had fan issues. So now I'm back up in the air. I'm not sure what to do.......more mulling I guess.

I think this is great news! Novartis was sold to Eli Lilly and they straightened out their issues over poor manufacturing practices to get this back on the market. I'm also going to include what I said on another site: However, I think what surprises me, especially if this was the...

Isn't Sunny still using LEDs?

Realize I have old Apollos with the steel case (they eventually changed to aluminum) and no adjustment capability (they eventually included pots...and then control-ability with controllers, such as Apex.) So my lights are either full ON 100%, or totally OFF. If you have adjustability you...

Looking great Tom. I think this is the first I've taken note of your tank. So I'll have to say that the tank and the light setup look fantastic. In looking at the pictures I was concerned that the ballast would be visible. But is appears it's down enough that it's not seen...

Looking good! I like the fact that the tank is so deep (front to back), that you can put the sump in sideways. Love it!