Recent content by mjweber

Hi, If you are just getting into this hobby be aware, you are signing up for a life long addiction, and a HUGE drain on your wallet, although its an awesome and fun hobby. With that said, the biocube is a nice starter aquarium, but the problem is that the more you learn about reef keeping the...

Was browsing through my new catalog of expensive aquarium equipment and I came across this new kind of MH Light that uses a HID metal halide lamp. The bulb looks completely different. Has anyone had any experience with this new lighting technology. I know its not totally new, since it is a...

Does anyone have any 14K Phoenix bulbs for sale? Maybe you bought one for your light, then decided to just get a whole new, bigger, better and more expensive light, and now you have an extra bulb, just sitting by itself looking for a home. If anyone has one please PM me and let me know how much...

Awesome article, It really answered a lot of questions. It seems from the pictures that the Kelvin rating of the bulb really doesn't have much effect on growth rate, and in all the examples the 20K bulb produced a more interesting viewing coloration. I guess I'm leaning towards a 20K bulb now.

Hi Everyone, I know this has been covered about a million times but I cannot for some reason find an answer in the posts. Here's the deal, I have a 30 gal cube reef tank with ~ 30lbs of freshly scrubbed live rock (long story). I just Purchased an Outer Orbit with a 150 W MH bulb and 2...

I completely feel your pain. As of now my tank is slowly being taken over by this invasive macro algae which people on this board have so kindly identified as a kind of Kelp. I've tried everything too, including reduced photo-periods, overstocking a cleanup crew, Removing all the rock and...

So this stuff just killed my 4th colony of zoa's. What it does is grow in between them, then cover them with leaves starving them of light. In order to beat this once and for all I'm going to home depot to get one of those 30 gal rubber maid tubs. I'm going to remove ALL my liverock and...

Light is gone. I listed it on e-bay on sunday and it was sold in a few hours. I really can't believe how fast it went. I had the light on a 30 gal oceanic cube. It wasn't that bright, since there are no supplemental actinics. Its a nice light for a smaller tank if you can find one I'd grab it

Nobody'S interested???? I guess it goes on flea bay

Up for sale is a current Sunpod 150W 20" system with a 14K Phoenix that's about 6 months old. It also has the small LED banks (6 blue, 6 white). It is used, but in great condition. Asking $150 + $17 shipping. Pictures to follow. PM me if you are interested, or shoot me an e-mail at...

Just get a surface skimmer from the two doctors website. That's what I currently use. It comes with a bunch of adapters to fit your intake line to your pump so i'm sure it would fit. I know that other big online drygood seller also has them, the one with the store in lancaster. They should...

Insanely awesome tank. You should do this for a living, setting up people's aquariums. Just out of curiosity how do Duncans grow? they look like big frilly Zoa's. Do they grow like Zoa's by extending a mat and then growing new heads?

So people actually want this kind of algae in their aquariums? I'm kind of surprised cause its so invasive. If anyone wants it that bad I'd be more than happy to somehow give someone some. Maybe a liverock swap or something. All I want is to get rid of it at this point. I'm thinking maybe a...

How do you move around a 55 gal drum full of water? thats gotta weigh like 800 lbs? I still don't have a sump hooked up on my 30 gal cause its not drilled and I just don't trust those overflows. I think the winning salt is Reef Crystals followed by oceanic. I'm going to start using the reef...

Hi everyone, After several months with a sea hare, this stuff is still growing all over the place. The sea hare seems to eat it,but not all of it. With the addition of my new MH light, i seem to have increased the growth rate even more. The thing that gets me confused is that people say its...