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Ok i found a pretty decent deal on a Hagen GLO t5 HO dual bulb. If i buy this, and continue to use the single strip along with the dual, will 3 t5 lights do the job of keeping an anemone and some corals? Im not sure if it has individual reflectors or not, but hagen also sells individual...

i was at the lfs today and they had a sale on anemonies for 10$, but i decided against it because i still wasnt sure about my lighting and i just added a clownfish and coral banded shrimp. I had to fight the urge to buy one, but then i remembered to be patient.

its a 30 gallon with 56 pound of rock in it. been up since about the end of december.

Thanks, i totaled the money i have spent on equipment alone not including the tank itself, or the water i keep buying or the food/salt/misc stuff and its just over $500. My damsel was picking on the clownfish, but seems to have quit now. i got a net ready in the water to try and catch him if he...

So i got a clownfish and a large coral banded shrimp today. Drip acclimated both for an hour, then added them to the tank. And if my Yellow Tail Damsel doesnt chill out, he will be headed back to the LFS in about an hour. So this brings my total population up to 1 yellow tail damsel 1 clownfish...

i would get a smaller tank if it bends your floor.

Well thats my problem, i really dont know what requires lighting of any sort. Im guessing any kind of anemonie, all corals, and certain types of algea, but thats a pretty broad scope there.

ok well i plan on adding another maybe dual strip light GLO t5 ho with the other two kinds of bulbs in it. Also can someone explain what sps and lps are? Iunderstand they are corals, but whats the difference. Im not really looking to go with corals jut yet, but maybe a super easy coral that i...

ok so i have a 24" GLO t5 ho with blue actinic bulb on my 30 gallon tank. The deminsions on my tank are 12" wide x 24" long x 21" tall. This is the only light i have on the aquarium. Is this considered low lighting? Can i keep an anemone or maybe a coral or two?

umm... i dont think that sounds right. i would hold off on adding that till you find out for sure though.

hmmm.... maybe the op died.....

yeah the one pictured is the one i have. maybe you could do a close up picture and draw me a line where i should be shooting for my salt to be. if its not too inconveniant....

dude thats an awesome deal, i have more money in just lighting and powerheads than what your paying almost a full tank setup.

Well i just tested it with the older hydrometer (the one with the needle in it) and it read 1.0215. I have more than the recommended 20 times the flow. its a 30 gallon with a penguin biowheel 350 hob filter and a powerhead that flows 110 gph and one that flows 170 gph. So i guess im just...

So either im having a blonde moment right now or i have been for the last 4 months. I originaly bought a hydrometer that you stick 6 inches into the water and it fills up and the needle moves to whatever the salt content is, but it was kinda hit or miss with it and gave me different readings...

try mixing the foods he wont eat with the foods he will, and gradually ween him off of the steady diet of brine shrimp and more to a variety of other foods.

call 411 and ask for the fedex place where its at now, and ask them directly, then find out what kind of insurance swf.com has on it, and what fedex has on it. i have seen a couple similar threads like this and it always ended up pretty good becuase of the lengths swf.com goes through in...

Originally Posted by ecooper I agree that unless you supplement aggressively, you'll not be able to keep one. Mine wiped out my entire pod population in my 75 and needed supplementing. you are depressing me

Originally Posted by ameno I would not buffer to raise from 7.9, this is not that bad of a ph reading, Is the reading in the morning or evening before lights out, your ph will be highest right before lights out and lowest in the morning, before lights on. if that is your reading in the morning...

So i should buffer it? Is there any negative effects to using the buffers?