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Originally Posted by fanker ya but its a 75g tank the nova bulbs will be able to keep anything he wants. if he is gunna buy new bulbs he might as well buy a tek or aquatinics. its $380 for a nova and from rrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeefffff gggeeeeeeek a tek is $390 and $470 with bulbs so if u really...

Originally Posted by nycbob That is so beautiful! I'd love to have a tank that looks like that!! You may have sold me on the Nova Pro!

Thank you everyone! I am leaning towards the Nova Pro t5, and maybe using better bulbs. But it's hard to say no to 50% off anything in this hobby!! If only the t5 fixture was on sale... but maybe it will be. Really appreciate everyone's opinions!

Originally Posted by WangoTango If you used better bulbs I would go with the PRO. Which Pro? t5 Current USA Nova Extreme Pro (6 bulb) or Aqualight Pro (2 x 150w HQI)? Thanks for your response, btw! It looks like the MH fixture would be ~ $420 including tax, and the t5 fixture would be ~$375...

I'm having a huge debate with myself. I finally decided I was going to upgrade my lighting soon (within the next few months). I have a 75 g (48") with just softies right now. I'd like to do some LPS and I want my Ricordeas to really thrive. I have PC lights now, so I know I definitely need to...

What's your secret with Ricordea? Yours look amazing! Do you target feed them anything specific? I can only hope that mine will look like that one day! Congratulations!

Thank you! I think I will just order one (instead of trying to build it.. it would end up costing me more than $20 to build it because of all the replacement parts for the ones I ruined the first time around). Plus, seems like a very reasonable price for my sanity and sleep!

So I just moved into a great apartment and I love it. But my 75g tank is now in my room, and the overflow/rushing water noise that I could live with in my living room is getting old. I've done some research and it sounds like a durso standpipe would fix my problems (cut down on noise falling...

Thanks! I really like him- he's almost always out in the open, keeps the hair algae in check, but LOVES frozen brine and mysis shrimp.. even eats floating pellets! I think he tries to be cleaned by my cleaner shrimp, but so far the cleaner has only wanted to clean my Royal Gramma, who's having...

Originally Posted by grubsnaek get a tripod for your camera e-bay has them for cheap. and you turn off all water movement pumps. and take the pics then. with the water not moving and the camera on a tripod. you can def get great pics....just a helpful hint Thank you! I tried using the back of...

Moved my 75g this weekend (tank move on Sat, fish were in Sunday night). Also switched from mostly CC to mostly very fine sand. Still have a ton of moving expenses, so adding a little more rock and some more corals for color might take a little while, but I wanted to share a few pictures...

Tank's looking great! And I definitely vote for the Flame- I also have a 75 Oceanic and just got a Flame Angel a few weeks ago and is doing great- eating flake and frozen food and staying away from my corals. Where do you shop normally? I was in Rockville, but I'm moving to NoVA this weekend and...

Disney's "Earth" and Discovery Channel's "Planet Earth" were done by the same people- it's a partnership between Disney and the BBC. No one is stealing anything- Planet Earth did extremely well on TV, but it wasn't released in theaters. You could look at "Earth" as a sequel of "Planet Earth"-...

Tumbling means you need enough water flow falling onto the chaeto that it moves around. You don't want the chaeto to stay still. As for connecting a refugium to the wet/dry, it depends on what your setup looks like. You could either drill a hole in the wet/dry and connect it to a small refugium...

Growing chaeto should help with your nitrates. You can buy refugiums that hang on the back of a tank, or you could build a refugium and connect it to your wet/dry. If you have bioballs in the wet/dry, you might want to rinse some of them every few months (rinse them using old water from a water...