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I was wondering if it was something like that... but I was under the impression that penetration to the bottom of the tank was of concern for any lighting source? IE - if my tank is 56 inches deep i'm gonna need a heck of a lot of any lighting to reach the bottom of that tank. Just one more...

opps. why not? only care about kelvin measurments with them? the only research I did on metal halides stopped when I realized how hot they got and wouldn't work in my canopy.

A 175 should be ok for a 29... just over 6 watts per gallon is a very respectable number IMO. Fighting Conch for sand. Astreas for rock and glass. Unbeatable combo for survivablity and availability IME.

Do some waterchanges to get that ammonia under control before considering adding anything, especially an anenome to your setup. Either your cycle is not done or something started to decay in there. As far as the lights are consered how may watts are we talking? I've seen some pretty insane light...

my fish room is the laundry room :( gotta build more shelves to hold all my water and my QT! :) at least I like power tools.

Sorry i didn't explain very well... the HOB will go on a 10 gallon which I am going to use as my QT... i wasn't planning on putting a fish in there :eek: :D A QT is a Quaruntine (sp) Tank, you put new critters in there to prevent contaminating your display tank (DT).

How many have a QT setup all the time, or on an as-needed basis? Also, I've got a handful of bio-balls in my sump, I was planning on putting those into an old wisper HOB filter, and leave the filter cartridge out... would this work for a qt?

From your description I would say everything is progressing normally. How much water movement do you have? IMO stuff shouldn't be hanging out and not moving in the water. Get a couple of powerheads and aim them at the LR to keep sand and detrius from settling on them. Keep your test kits handy...

Whoa. I wonder if he'll adopt me... That guy MUST have been some sort of high-end bank robber or something to afford allt hat..... i can only imagine what that cost to build up let alone maintain. i wanna be rich.

I'll second that welcome. Welcome! :D

What I found interesting was to google for aquarist or aquatic society / clubs... lots of websites with pictures of members tanks. http://www.seasky.org/links/sealink1...uarium%20Clubs That should get you started... I don't think that is a retailer site so it shouldn't get deleted. The...

Live rock is porus (sp?) rock from the ocean which has a ton of cool critters on it. Most people here have a mixture of live rock as their bio-filter, then power heads for water movement, and a protein skimmer. After that all you need is a hood and a heater and you are G2G. Lighting is VERY...

Originally posted by rbmount Also don't dose anything without testing for it. I'll second that! Lots of LFS will dump chemicals and additives on you to make some more $$$... if you don't test for it do not add it because you'll never know how much / little is actually making it into your tank...

no such thing as a stupid question :) a HOB Overflow has two 'boxes' one inside the tank with little teeth to do some surface skimming, and one on the outside w/ two chambers. The first chamber on the outside stays full of water so your siphon doesn't break. The siphon is a 'U-tube' which sucks...

IMO you should get 30-40lbs of LR from either online or your LFS (online is MUCH better cost wise) the LR from SWF.com is stellar. Use that to cycle your tank :) Put your substrate in, fill up your 30 w/ RO water, mix the salt in the tank (no fish means you can do this), order your live rock (or...

2nd Kip... no problems.

Cool, thanks for the replies! I guess I should check with the company that makes the unit for replacement membranes and such... my DI isn't color changing (wish it was now)... it probably doesn't last too long... should a TDS meter tell me when to RPL that as well? Thanks again.

I've got a five stage RO/DI unit that I got on ---- for a great price brand new. ? is how the heck do I tell when the cartridges need to be changed, and where do I get them? Are they universal? Cheers!:happy:

I originally used an RO/DI filter and then it broke, I couldn't afford to replace it and used tap, after two months of that I broke down and bought a new RO/DI... it makes a huge difference IMO my tank looked MUCH better after switching back... I don't even know how to describe it, just looks...

That sounds good, I went the cheap Southdown route w/ my sandbed, the results are OK but it took nearly 8 months for it to seed properly... then I just moved and killed nearly everything (oh well). You should be happy w/ what you mentioned... do a search on the forums for the proper way to...