Recent content by nd30male

Well in the store baught lighting i had the same problem with over heating cuz of the glass not only doese the glass magnifie it allso holds the heat in not allowing it to exscape. But none of that matters in your case if you dont want to build a new canopy i guess in you situation with the open...

If you think about what happens to a car in the summer months? The sun shines the windshield magnifies the rays and your car heats up your probly better off removing the glass top and raising your lights. As far as running your fans across the bulb i dont think that would help much might drop...

Maybe this will help you out http://www.cnidarianreef.com/lamps.cfm[/URL]

Here is a few pics of the hood i built for my 46 bowfront i vented the side close to the bottom of the hood so it pulls in cool air across the top of my water keeping it cool then i have 4-2.5 fans sucking the air out of the top of the tank making it easier since heat rises. Im running 192 PC...

12 MH atinics hour before and after well ill try gutting it back and see what happens.

Heres a pic of one melting away best i could get with my cheap camera

Well as far as a test kit im useing Aquarium Pharmaceuticals INc Saltwater Master Liquid Test Kit and your right ammonia has allways tested .25 so to be honest i just ignored it cuz it never seemed like i could get it below that. Acclamating the new light well have to to be honest i turned it on...

Ya i thought about the lighting be to intense so i did try moving them under a rock ledge with no success. just seems a bit weird that its not affecting anything else but the shrooms my recordeas are doing great and all my leather clams, polyps etc its just affecting my large shrooms all the...

Well i cut up the shrooms that were starting to decay hoping maybe theres something to salvage there we will see if any of the frags regenerate or not keeping my fingers crossed.

All fish are accounted for. my tank is a year old the only things ive change is 2 weeks ago i added 250w MH to my system. I just added AmQuel+ to my system i going to give a hour and see if it drops my level. Ive allso noticed brown slime starting to form dont have phosphate tester so not sure...

ammonia .25 nitrate 10 guess ill have to keep doing water changes but why is it only affecting my shrooms.

Ive been loosing a large mushroom a week and not sure whats going on. I checked my water and everything was looking pretty good amonia was a up a littel so ive been doing water changes every other day but still loosing my shrooms. all my other softies are doing great clams look good any thoughts.

Ok looks cool no exsplain how it works it, doese it swich directions for you automaticly or do you need to do some mods and ware would the cheepest place be to buy a (squirt). I appreciate the info.

Im going to build me a close loop system for my 46 bowfront and im planning on using a magdrive pump. I want to run sps and am wonder what size pump i should use to get a enough water flow for them. someone was telling me about 30x my water volume wich puts me at 1380 gph. i plan on...

it could be romove with a brush i suppose but i decide to just give it back to him i dont want that nightmare in my tank.