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My local lfs has a hagen t5ho 2x54w retrofit kit. comes with everything besides bulbs ad reflectors. If i hooked up 24 inch bulbs instead of 48 inch bulbs, would it be the same as over driving them? Would they even work?

I want to get locline for my return cuz im tired of the pvc pipe being in the water and distracting me from everything else. But my problem is i dont know what i need. I have 3/4 inch pvc coming up over the edge of my tank and back down. What exactly do i need to buy to use locline?

Im moving my 55 gallon to my place from my dads house on thursday and i have some questions. I have a shallow sandbed right now, made up of black argonite sand, and I really need to avoid a cycle becuase of not really having a place to put fish till it finishes. So what im thinking of doing...

Ok im moving into a trailer in the next couple days and i know fire and trailers don't mix at all, and saltwater and electricity easily causes fires...... so im looking at getting some gfci outlets. Now since im really broke after all the bills plus deposits today (got paid today... $1875.00 and...

Ok so as the title says, im thinking of UPGRADING to an ---- hqi fixture. i know lots of people say they are junk and dont waste your money, but its the only thing i can find within my budget that will work with what i want. Currently i have a 55 gallon with a 20" pc 50/50 light on the left hand...

Lol i was looking around at freewebarcade and found this game. Not sure if it is ok to link to somewhere else in the aquarium forum, but here goes. http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/kaleidoscope-reef/ Pretty fun game for the first ten minutes, then gets kinda annoying. But the point is, more...

Ok so my sand is getting outa control. It looks like hair algea has been rolled in sand and left on top. I want some stuff that will get my sand back to clean. I know there are certain snails that will clean sand, and there are some fish that clean the sand, but i don't know which ones. They all...

Ok so the other day a really nice guy from a local forum gave me some zoas. My first corals actually. He gave me an orange one (sorry i don't know the names) with something like 21 or 22 heads, a pink one with like 10 heads, and a kinda ugly brownish green one with long flowing strands coming...

I dont remember who told me this, but I found it here a couple months ago and figured this is good information, might as well share it. If you happen to know who thought of this, or you are the person who thought of this, post up and ill give you credit for it. Till then.... its all mine...

Ok so alot of you have probably read my thread about sugar dosing. In that thread i started with nitrates that were darker than what the card would read. I started dosing sugar, and saw definate results with it, but nothing too extreme. I ordered a reefmasters test kit, and it came with another...

That I love reading the diaries of peoples tanks, and I love seeing pictures of equipment (especially lights), but once the tank is done and cycled i just scan through all the pics quickly? Like when i go to a LFS, i always check out there equipment before the livestock. And i really want to try...

So my LFS just started carrying a t5ho retrofit kit from hagen. Its for 2 54 watt t5's. It only costs 55 dollars. Comes with ballast, endcaps, and all the other stuff. So the only other cost i would need would be 2 bulbs. I can build my own individual reflectors out of sheet aluminum. So what do...

Ok so i got myself a sump and fuge combo so i could keep a mandarin goby. its been up for about 2 months with the fuge, almost a year without. I have about 65 pounds lr and not alot of sand. water perameters are decent, little high nitrates. i have a yellow tank, sixline wrasse, lawnmower...

Ok well im moving out of my dads house next month, and i have to take my tank with me. The problem is, im moving into a mobile home, and im worried a 55 gallon in a old mobile home is asking for problems. So im thinking about downgrading to a 20 gallon and making it a reef. I have a 24" t5 ho...

Um.... ok lets play a game. You tell me wats growing in the overflow box. No prizes, no vacations for two to jamaica, none of that stuff. Just a thank you from me. I lifted my canopy today to do a water change and clean up my overflow box and found this nasty purplish brown..... goop. Thats the...

Yesterday i put the first months rent down on me and my girls first place. Its out in the country where there isn't a dedicated trash pick up, so you either have to take it out to the dump yourself, or you have to burn it. So while we were wondering around the property (2 acres, but situated...

Ok so about 2 months ago, i put a ziplock bag stuffed full of cheato in my sump. I have my stand light on 24/7. My nitrates are high off the charts, but thas another thread. My question is, why is it my cheato doesnt want to grow or help out with nitrate exportation? I have a quiet one 2200...

Well im tired of having high nitrates and my live rock and chaeto isnt working enough to reduce it. ill be the first to admit im horrible about doing my water changes, and im the kind of guy who will look for the easy way to get things right. seeing as i have a fowlr tank, the water change isnt...

A couple weeks ago i noticed the left side of my stand was literally coming apart. So i drained the tank, i set up tote bins for my fish and LR. I fixed the stand an put it all back together and then had to wait for the cycle again. Well i was looking at the stand today and the other corner is...

Ok so i started this tank back in febuary of 08. It was origionally a 30 gallon with hob equipment only. Just a clownfish, damnsel, and some clean up crew. Well after finding this site, a 30 gallon was just too small for me. I had to upgrade to at least a 55 gallon...... but (always gotta have...