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  1. twflint

    Clown Fish Host

    I have some really cool pictures somewhere of my ocellaris pair hosting in my goniopora. =)
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    How much light needed for refugium?

    Oops, guess i shoulda checked the dimensions on the 40 watt. Doubt it will fit. Will try something a bit smaller =) Thanks guys.
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    How much light needed for refugium?

    Just finished adding my 10 gallon refugium to my tank, 20 lbs of caribsea aragonite fine sand and a few pieces of LR rubble with a bit of calurpa growing on them. What lighting should i be looking to get? I will be running this as a reverse daylight fuge, would a 40 watt flourescent work...
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    Newbie Question

    Thanks alot for the replies. I am planning on getting a RO unit soon, hopefully within the week. If I need water before then I will make sure to buy some somewhere. Cycle is getting close I believe. Ammonia 0, Nitrites about 2 and Nitrates are around 40 (going down slowly.) Soon as cycle is...
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    Newbie Question

    Greetings again all. I have a couple more newbie questions I could use answered. Thanks much. First, I have been cycling for about 11 days now. 90 Gallon Tank with 3-5 inches puka sand, 30 lbs base rock and 25 lbs Live Rock. Running 2 175 watt MH 10000k's and 1 40w Actinic (Cut down to 10 hrs...
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    Another Lighting Question

    Thanks for the replies all. If I hadn't just dropped 150 bucks on the 10000k's I would get some 12k's. Just wanna try and get something that will augment the 10k's. Thanks guys All!
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    Another Lighting Question

    Greetings, Just a quick question regarding lighting. I am running a 90 gallon tank with 50 lbs of live rock currently (will be adding more, will be building a reef tank) and using 2 175watt Metal Halides with 10000k bulbs. I have found a 48" 40watt flourescent that I am going to be putting into...
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    Question About Cycling

    Thanks much. Figured it would have to be different, but thought I may as well ask. :)
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    Question About Cycling

    Greetings, Yet another newbie question from me. I set up a new 90 gallon reef tank with 30 gallon sump on Saturday. Couldn't afford 100 lbs of live rock all at once so I bought 20 lbs of live rock and 20 lbs of baserock to get started in the cycle. Heres my question. I have a 30 gallon...
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    Question about Metal Halide Lighting

    Thanks for the reply, Looks like that one side just takes a bit longer to come up. After posting this message I went back and the bulb was on. Weird. When I was adding my timer I had to unplug both lights, once again it took a while for the right side to come back on, but only about 5 mins...
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    Question about Metal Halide Lighting

    Greetings, I just have a question about metal halide lighting. I just bought 2 10000k 175w bulbs, running on 2 seperate 175W m57 ballasts. I understand MH lights have a warm up time, when I plugged them in the first time both came on instantly then went out for about 1 minute or so. The...
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    Lighting Question

    Thanks much for the replies guys. Heading to the LFS in the next little bit, will check into some 10K's. Once again, thanks!
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    Lighting Question

    Doh, wrote those down so I would remember to add it to my post and then totally forgot. 175w m57 is on the side of the ballast. Thanks!
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    Lighting Question

    Greetings, I have a quick question about lighting. Just purchased and started to set up a 90 gallon tank, this will be a reef tank. I will be picking up live rock today to start the cycle and need to figure out what type of lights I should use. At this point all I have are 2 retrofitted Metal...
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