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I bough a used set up with a 250w custom sealife metal halide ballast. there is no information on the ballast or the bulb and I don't know what type of bulb I need. Of course custom sealife is out of business. How would I know what type of bulbs would work in my set up?

I agree, Great job!! you definately motivated me. I think I am going to start one soon, probably in the next month or so. Thanks for sharing your project with us.

WOW Betacrash, I have never seen you so passionate. You must really be getting into this. I think instead of spending $100 more dollars on a light you should get a nano... JK. Go for the big tank!! You want to try to many things to messing around with those little tanks. I saw a nice tank...

Very impressive!!

Thanks Snipe for the response. What I meant by the question though was, if the fish had the disease (which I believe that they did) do I need to wait x amount of days so that there are no hosts in the tank. I have read some conflicting articles but I understand that this parasite can not live...

How long should I wait until I put fish back in the tank?

My ammonia was reading 0.25, my nitrite was 0, and nitrate was 5.0. The tank is a month old. It is a small tank , 15 gallon eclipse, with about 12lbs of live rock. The only thing that shared the tank with the clowns were 2 nassarius snails. The fish displayed all of the symptoms of...

Well one month into my first salwater tank and I wiped out. I lost 1 clown already and the other will probably not make it through the night. I am not sure if it was cuased by somthing I did wrong but I thought everything was going great in the tank. The water quality seemed fine. I tested...

I could be way off here but can't trace elements used for enhanced algae growth throw your PH and Alkalinity out of whack? It seems to me that I read that when investing what supplements to use.

The decaying shrimp will put ammonia into your tank. It is a method of cycling without harming any fish.

Very Nice. I would also be interested in seeing the step-by-step instructions that you used. I just got some new tools I would like to put to use. What better way than to work on my new hobby !! I look forward to seeing the pics

I ask because I have a couple in my tank too.

peppermint shrimp? https://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11...ot_parent_id=4 I never had one and was wondering if anyone else had any success using them.

Is it true that peppermint shrimp will eat the aptasia and rid your tank of them?

I have been using c-balance by two little fishes but it is too early to tell if it is working. Has anyone every used this? If so where you happy with it?

That's awesome I was afraid it was going to be some unwanted hitch hiker.

Thanks Betacrash for posting this for me and for getting me signed up on this message board. I hope someone can identify my "growth" from that picture. It is very hard to get a good picture of it.

Thanks that is great advice Pontius. That would certainly save a lot of money on buying all premium rock for the tank.

I know that there are a lot of factors but generally, does it take a long time to grow algae on dead rock? Months, Years? I read some good articles on the Garf.org page about designing your own rock and growing the coraline algae on it but that seems like it would take a long time.