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eggy5404, You can get a small fan and attach it to the top of your tank. The air blowing over the tank will increase evaporation and that will cool your tank a couple degrees. Of course, increased evaporation means you'll do more top-offs. If your house/apartment isn't air-conditioned, it...

birdy, My hood has the MH mounted parallel to the tank. I have two fans.....one pulls the air in/across the bulbs and the other exhausts it out of the hood. I like that arrangement. It seems to keep my tank temp pretty stable. BTW, I have a 45 gallon tank with one MH, 175W 10,000 Ushio and...

I have a zenia that's growing like crazy and I run my MH less than 8 hours a day regularly. I don't have any SPS but can tell you that most people I've observed here have 7 to 10 hour per day photo period. I don't think you need to worry about your corals being effected by the temporarily...

footbag, What kind of corals do you keep? What kind of lighting do you have? How long are the lights on during this construction? How long will it be until you can resume normal light times? Jim

My hood and ballast are Hamilton. The ballast is electronic. As I mentioned, the hood came with a 175w 10,000K Hamilton MH bulb.....mogul base, by the way. I replaced that bulb with a 175w 10,000K Ushio MH bulb with a mogul base that I bought from the same web site where I purchased the...

I have three ph's in my 45 gallon tank and my peppermints didn't seem to mind a bit. Actually, one of the shrimp used a ph as his hiding place for acouple days. Jim

footbag, I was running a Hamilton 175w 10,000K bulb in my hood. I recently replaced it with the Ushio 175w 10,000K and what a difference in color. Although I didn't realize it, the Hamilton was much more yellow than the Ushio is. Of course, the hamilton bulb was 10 to 11 months old when it...

Peppermint shrimp are noturnal. Are you looking for them after "lights out"? Jim

Just a caution......regular water changes should provide all the iodine needed in a sw tank. Too much iodine can be toxic. If you're adding iodine regularly, be sure to have your water tested regularly for iodine so you don't over-dose. I thought my mushrooms needed more iodine, too. I...

Mushrooms don't need much light. Corals that are not photosynthetic like sun polyps and carnation corals would be fine (but you have to feed them by hand). Jim

Originally posted by Beth [CBS is responsible because THEY are a major news network and should be reporting facts, not creating an opportunity for Tetra to have national free advertising and giving them the forum to tell lies to unsuspecting people. [/B] I agree with Beth on this aspect...

jagermeister, The ends of the "hammers" on my branching hammer glow as do all the polyps on my green star polyp colony. Jim

It was on Saturday, 6/14. I believe the show started at 9 AM but this piece was on around 9:15 or 9:20. Jim

I'm glad other people saw this. I was afraid I was still asleep and having a nightmare when I woke up to this on Saturday morning! In addition to all those animals in a 5 gallon bowfront, I particularly liked (:mad: ) when she cautioned everyone about putting too many fish in their tanks. She...

I have a canopy also; no glass tops. My canopy, though, came with an acrylic "shield" to protect the bulbs. I built a 2" x 4" frame to go around the top of the tank......stained to match my stand. That keeps the whole canopy 4" or 5" inches off the water and I get very little splash on the...

I run one 175w 10K Mh and 2 95w VHO's (one actinic and one daylight) over my 45 gallon tank (3' long). I have dual 4 1/2" fans that come on when the MH bulb comes on. The ballast I have allows separate off/on for the MH and VHO's. I found that my tank temp actually goes down a degree or two...

Your nano, which I have seen pictures of.....is probably proof of what I was trying to explain to chinnyr. I think if animals are used to the "controlled" chemical environment of RO/DI water and a salt mix, they could have real probelms with "stuff" that could be in ocean water. On the other...

plum, I do regular 10% water changes for the reason you mentioned...you want to make sure you're regularly replacing lost trace elements. It's also a good way to export nitrates. I don't think there's any choice between ocean water and using RO/DI water and a good salt compound like IO. Can...

From the picture it looks to me like mushrooms. Mushrooms will move around to find a comfortable spot. Jim

Right there with you ReefNut!! I did exactly the same thing on my tank. Jim