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Watts per gallon can't really be relied upon because of factors like tank depth, width and lots of other stuff. A better way is to figure out what corals you want and then ask people wo have had long term success with those corals what type of lighting they have.

The tank looks good. I do agree that the plants look awkword but this is just because the majority of tanks on this board don't have them. You have plenty of rock for biological filtration so any more would be purely for looks. I would take off the HOB filters. They are nice for running...

10K's have quite abit of the Actinic spectrum in them already so you would not need as much actinic supplimentation. Actinics do make the tank look nicer than straight 10K's

You could just top off with salt water for a while until it brings it up to about 1.022 or so and then top off with fresh water.

Originally posted by deansreef The fish are a large copperbanded butterfly. 40.00 powder blue tang 40.00 3 blue reef chromis 20.00 for all 3 and a bangaii cardianl 10.00. Large orange zooanthid rock 40.00 large metallic green mushroom rock 40.00. a few sps 50.00 010s.jpg[/IMG] Prices seem...

Originally posted by Squidd If they are on top of the water, then they are called "Ships" 99.9 % of sailors call their ship their boat. you hardly hear sailors say that they are going out on the ship. They say that they are going on the boat. Since I am in the Navy I know this:yes:

It's the whole watts per gallon thing in another light. After you subtract the glass and the fact that most tanks are not filled to the brim then it all comes down to what looks good for you. It really does not take that much rock to perform adequate biological filtration and if you have any...

Originally posted by druluv This shows that a protein skimmer is really not needed to keep your tank clean. This is the only quote that I had more of an annoyance with. It seems very misleading to say that after two weeks that you can really show anything with any experiment. Food...

Originally posted by randy 12 We've been skimmerless for almost 2 years now. Hooked up a skimmer at one point and it barely pulled anything out. Corals and fish are thriving. (knock on wood!) A skimmer won't pull out what is not in the tank, so a lightly stocked tank that is not overfed...

You have to be really carefull on these boards. The mail does not get lost near as much as people say. Good luck:)

Originally posted by druluv The Tank is doing pretty well. The water is clean.Even with some much fish being added so fast. In addition to this, no fish has died. This shows that a protein skimmer is really not needed to keep your tank clean. po4 - undetectable no3 - 1 ml/g The problem is...

Why don't you replace the 50/50 bulb with a 10K daylight. it would look very crisp and would not have the purple tint.

Most people don't factor in all of the livestock and filters so I think that you will be hard pressed to even get $1,000.00 for a 100 gal aquarium even if it is worth alot more. I hope you sell it but you might want to do a search on even 125 gallon setups and see the prices and responses for them.

Are these the same things that someone asked about a couple yers ago. That thread went for days and pages. Wonder if they ever found what they where looking for. Good luck. I have not seen any for awhile:D

Originally posted by Squidd The "last step" can be controlled by having a fully "functional/mature" DSB to process nitrAtes...ie: proper amounts of worms ,critters,cleanup crew to "break down" waste to having proper anaerobic "zones" for biological conversion to Nitrogen gas... Even the DSB...

Originally posted by saltwaterdave I have found just the excat opposite pc bulbs only last about 6 months and I can get 12 to 18 months out of my VHO bulbs. That is really weird. We just destroyed this thread. I ran my old PC's for about 20 months before I switched over to VHO. My corals...

Bioballs convert Ammonia-> nitrite-> to nitrate and have no way of converting nitrate to Nitrogen ( somebody tell me if it is not nitrogen ). Until you get a biological filter that will convert nitrate to nitrogen then you are going to have nitrates no matter what biological filtration you...

I had PC's and then went VHO's. After having to change the VHO bulbs after 9 months I went with PC's for my 10K bulbs and kept my VHO's for actinics. The PC bulbs are supposed to last longer. According to the online dealer who I bought both VHO and PC's from the PC's should last about twice...

Those products are really a waste of money and time. A small piece of cured rock will do the same thing. Even a lb or less will help speed up a cycle.

Originally posted by Lutz493 I see, pictures of peoples tanks who have 100+ gallons and very low stacked liverock and it makes me wonder how their Tangs can be happy just swimming above and around in circles all day. Tangs in nature usually spend the majority of time swimming around the...