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For those of us who have a Goldilocks' tank.......not too big........and not too small.......but just right, the 40B is an ideal tank for a sump. Great time to pick up a spare.
Thanks for the heads up.
Maybe it's dependent on the types of fish you're trying to feed? I think the autofeeder-breeder PaulB made used fresh-hatched brine. HERE'S Paul's DIY build.
Pete, that's a Herbie Overflow. What I find interesting.....and nicely made....are the 90 degree corners that were bent. I've never seen that before.....very interesting. I'd like to know who made it!
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...
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...
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...