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ya im gonna give a fan or 2 a shot. id love to get a chiller, i will do that if nothing else works. i turned my heater down to 76 and moved my koralia to the other side of the tank to agitate the surface water a little it seems like that kept my temp yesterday right around 80-82. so im pretty...

so next question is, when i order some fans should i buy biocube fans or will they all work. i believe there is 2 open spots in the canopy wiring for fans?

so ive had my 70watt mh retro in my 14g biocube for over a week now. ive been increasing the time its on everyday. today it was on for about 7 hours and ive been noticing my temp is up around 84 and 86 degrees. i have good flow, i got a maxijet 900 for pump and kaloria nano. anyone think its a...

so it hasnt even been a week yet with the MH running about 4 hours a day and there is such a huge difference in my corals. I need some new colorful zoos.

ya he fit through the little squares to get back there. i am so frusterated i keep tryin to get him but he swims away, i wish he knew i was tryin to save his little butt. ill try again tomorrow hes gotta be gettin hungry ill try the feeding thing. ill let ya know. thanks guys

so i thought my little yellow clown goby died. but today i opened up the hood of my 14g biocube and there he is in the back chambers. anyone got any ideas on how to get him out of there? my net is to large and he keeps swimming away from my hand obviosuly.

nissan ill send u all the pulsing xenia i have in my tank if u want lol. when i ripped down my 55 DT i took one frag of it from there and figured id control it in my nano.. wrongggg so if u want it its urssssss.

i dunno how much of a fan i am of SPS. i def wanna get a cool clam possibly tho, lol. my LFS is so freakin expensive i just wait to get stuff from people on here. im itchin to get something right now tho!

thanks. it was def worth the time and investment. now im gonna start gettin some sick zoos and rics.

heres the pics. i took the waterguard off and turned it around and tried to move the fans a little but it didnt help i def need a fan blowing across the bulb. there isnt any water temp change yet but the bulbs been on for only an hour. and this is the tank with the bulb on. u cant really tell...

Originally Posted by oceana wow i good job but i am shocked it would melt the guard. i run a 150 and it does not get even close to hot enought to melt the shield. does it have the uv glass? ya the uv glass is on it. it was prolly about a half inch away from the water guard. im puttin pics up...

i think im gonna go get some glass and try and cut out the middle of the plastic water guard and set it into that. it only burnt one spot of the water guard so im hoping that will work. im also gonna go to radio shack and pick up another fan and mount it so it blows across the bulb to help with heat

Originally Posted by subielover What thing did you burn up? The big plastic shield that goes over the whole lighting assembly?? yepppp burnt right through it within 20 minutes!

and THANKS spanko! it wasnt even really that hard. took about an hour. I am the farthest from knowing what im doin with electrical work and it wasnt bad. i cant wait to get the same 70 MH on the new aquapod i just picked up for 50 bucks locally with 18lbs of liverock 20lbs of livesand! thought...

yep just ran into my first problem. didnt use common sense, the stock water guard, i was sittin there and smelled something burning. the bulb burnt right through the plastic waterguard so tomorrow i gotta go pick up some glass to use. wooooooops

Ill get some pics up soon but seriously after just being on for 15 minutes i can see the difference in the color of my zoos and shrooms. everything is starting to pop out

got my 70watt MH retro kit today but it didnt come with instructionsssss!!!!! so im currently in the process of tryin to get ahold of the website its from so they can email me the ebook instructions. argggghhh

the guy i got them from originally bought them from the website where they were 140 and never ended up using them so he put them on ----. i can give u the website where u can get them if u want. PM me

thanks everyone. Ya ill post pics of the retro lighting when i actually get it. still waiting on the mailman to bring it to me. got a pretty good deal off of the bay for 80 bucks, same one that goes for 140 on another website so well see what happens

ya its ok, it got sucked up in my turkey baster on accident when i was doin some feeding right before the pics.