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  1. blayz77

    ? on the actinics for 28g hqi

    not really sure personally mayby it was for more wattage bulbs i think. i guess it doesnt make much of a difference really but i tend to like to have the newest stuff if its available lol
  2. blayz77

    ? on the actinics for 28g hqi

    cool thx for the quick response, just one last question before i order it i notice on the website it shows the 2,18 is that the best one they have to offer cause i seem to remember reading somewhere there was a 2.23 version or somthign
  3. blayz77

    ? on the actinics for 28g hqi

    i have the 14k mh, so by your response i should not get the 50/50 and just get the regulars actinics
  4. blayz77

    ? on actinic lights for 28g hqi

    hey guys, i am intrested in getting the actinic upgrade lighting kit for my 28g nano hqi. i want to acheive the dusk dawn look. my question is on the website it gives me the option for just actinic blue lights or the 10k 50/50 day/actinic blue. which one would be better suited for me since i...
  5. blayz77

    ? on the actinics for 28g hqi

    hey guys, i am intrested in getting the actinic upgrade lighting kit for my 28g nano hqi. i want to acheive the dusk dawn look. my question is on the website it gives me the option for just actinic blue lights or the 10k 50/50 day/actinic blue. which one would be better suited for me since i...
  6. blayz77

    white stuff??

    my tanks been cycling about a week now. and today i noticed on one of my rocks there is a spot of white stuff like a patch of snow, or if you were to melt some white candlewax or something. after looking at it for a couple minutes i noticed some of it flaking off. is this normal?
  7. blayz77

    picking out a cleaning crew

    Clean Up Crew 3 Banded Trochus Snail 3 Nassarius Snail 1 Fire Shrimp 2 Porcelain Crab 2 Emerald Crab Possible Sand Sifting Starfish if it survives my cycle process (was a hitch hiker on my rocks, haven’t seen it for a couple days, was about the size of a quarter) Since my tank is brand new, how...
  8. blayz77

    found a starfish!! got an id?

    yeah im worried that he wont make it. even though he is really small ive read up on sand sifting stars. and apparently they have a real big appetite. and with my tank being brand new there isnt going to be much for him to eat i imagine. after he dissapeared on me ive looked all over for it...
  9. blayz77

    found a starfish!! got an id?

    hmm ok ill ahve to take a closer look at him next time i see him thx for the pic of the sandsifting star.. he was hiding in my tank in the upper right corner behind my mag-float most of the day in the shade, mayby trying to stay out of the light? are they nocturnal? it had looked at one point it...
  10. blayz77

    28g nano hqi heat issue

    ok so here are the results after a 12 hour run on the lights, according to the digitemp sensor i have midway down the tank at the 12 hour mark when i shut the lights off it read 86 degrees. however i remembered i have a little infrared thermometer that i use to see wha tthe temp is on my --...
  11. blayz77

    28g nano hqi heat issue

    so my tank has been running for 4 days now and for the last 2 days ive had the light on. the water temp before i turned my light on for the first time was 77 degrees after about 5 or 6 hours with the light on i noticed it got up to a little over 83 degrees at which point i shut the light off...
  12. blayz77

    found a starfish!! got an id?

    if i had to guess based on the starfish this website sells it looks like it could be a very smail spotted linckia but im not sure
  13. blayz77

    found a starfish!! got an id?

    ok so i dunno where the hell it came from but i glanced at my tank and Bam there is a starfish on the glass here got a couple pics mayby someone can tell me what kind it is..
  14. blayz77

    found a tiny tiny snail

    speaking of hitch hikers just in a couple hours of reporting what i thought was a tiny snail i look up and what do i see on my backplate, a starfish!! i dunno where the hell it came from it wasnt there while i was testing my waters and like 2 hours later BAM i see a star fish. i tried getting a...
  15. blayz77

    my water test results

    im not in a hurry or anything, but my plan is to have fish corals and a cleanup crew, a similar setup to what a lot of people i see have. currently my tank is a 28g nano hq1 with 35 pounds of live rock and live sand that has now been cycling for 3 days. i dont mind letting it run longer i just...
  16. blayz77

    found a tiny tiny snail

    so i came home today after going to my LFS and took a quick glance on my tank thats been cycling and i noticed something on the black backplate on my tank i took a quick look and thoguht to myself that kinda looks like a very very small snail shell. but before i was able to really investigate i...
  17. blayz77

    my water test results

    so ive had my 28g nano running for 3 days and i see everyone on here testing their own water which makes sense to me so you dont always have to go to the LFS and have them do it. "im new to all this" so i swung by the LFS and picked myself up a test kit. so tonight just for kicks i decided to...
  18. blayz77

    help id pls

    ok so ive had my tank set up and running for about 3 days now, and ive noticed i have a lot of little tiny creatures running around on the rocks, i believe those to be ampipods? ive been reading the id sections and learned what those were. dont know if i have any bad ones though im new to this...
  19. blayz77

    Salties New BC29

    nice start man i just got mine started yesterday 28g i think i might add another bag of sand i wanted a nice thick bed of sand myself, one bag is ok i guess but i know its gonna break down some, my sand is full of gunk now that i moved the live rock around after i put the water in. i ahve a...
  20. blayz77

    cleaning squad choices for 28g

    i tried to use the search function but when i put in like cuc or cleaning crew etc nothjing really came up for me.. so i have the nano 28g hqi thats cycling right now and i was looking through the different types of cleaning crew things heres what i was thinking. turbo/astrea snail - 10...
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