Recent content by pagano24

where can i go to replace a ballast. should i take my light apart and just start messing with it. Im prety good when it comes to fixing things, but i have never even seen the inside of one of these lights.

yes i swapped the bulbs and still the same problem on the same side so im guessing it the ballast. My light is the 48 inch current sunpod. Any suggestions on how to fix it myself? I cant seem to find a website that i can send it in and get it fixed, so if you know any sites, please list some.

My light fixture is 2 metal halides and leds made by current, I think its the orbit model. Anyways one of my metal halides will flicker for 20 seconds then turn off and then turn back on and will keep repeating this. I dont know whats wrong with it but my corals dont look healthy anymore...

so its a common thing to food color coral? i was told its goona die within a week because of it.

i just bought a leather finger coral that is yellow, and i heard that sometimes they get dyed by food coloring and i heard that this is a bad thing. Is this myth true? what will happenen if it is dyed?

I live in southern california and i have a 80 gallon semi stocked reef tamk and i was wondering if a chiller is that necessary? They are so exspensive. Are companys just trying to make a dollar or can my tank survive without one?

So i bought a new canister filter and i want to switch it out with my old one. I want to know whats the proper way to switch them.

No its green , i know what sponges are and how to care. this is different, its light green, thin that i can kinda see through it and under it looks like white eggs of some sort. It looks kinda like sponge but something is in it

Its on a little piece of rock i have. Its like eggs of some sort. Thats like a green sheet almost string like green sheet and it looks like eggs under the green layer. Anybody have a clue what it could be?

So i just bought a new canister filter today, and was wondering how i should go about placing it in my already runnning tanK. So my tank has been running for over a year, was using a old jebo 838 filter and up graded to the re-action 4 euf 45 with uv light. What i did was just added some of my...

i just got two new dwarf lionfish, i know they are hard to feed. i have had one before that didnt work out. Anyways, i could use some help on how to start to feed with live food then wo wing them on frozen foods, if anyone has tried info would help

thanks for the answers, sounds like im not gonna be adding trace to my tank. cause the water i get is great, corals all do fine.I was giving a free bottle thats why i ask, but why should i add something to a system thats already working.

I know you have to add calcium,iodine, and many other chemicals. But what is trace elements? Why do you add them to your tank?

yea, i got the background from spencers. It glows with my coral when i turn on my moon lights. Its day four now and im down to 3 cowns left. I dont know whats going wrong. I acclimated for two hours. I have tried 3 different foods sometimes they eat sometimes they dont. Water is perfectly fine...

well now its going on day two one of the clowns has dissapeared. It was the smallest one, im guessing that it may have passed away and the scavengers in the tank got to him. They all still are in the same spot of the tank where i put them in. my water qualities are usally good, but im gonna go...