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    One more week

    until i have saved up the $550 needed to buy all the remaining parts to the 7 x 60" T5 retrofit light on 3 Icecap 660 ballast i am building. i have only been saving up money since late June.
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    Great use of my tax money!

    about a month ago at the Meijer i work at we hired a kid (23 years old) to work out in the garden center. after two weeks of getting him through the paper work and computer training. on his first day of working in the garden center his ex wife comes to the store and starts a fight with him...
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    Stay away from South Pacific Sunlight (SPS) Power Compact bulbs

    i bought 4 of their bulbs for my light fixture about 2 months ago and yesterday 3 out of the 4 bulbs blow out. the glass seems to be thinner that other brand of bulbs and the ends are soft and brake easy. so i'm not vary happy right now because i had to go to my LFS and buy two Current USA PC...
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    Ice Cap T5 ballast?

    what wattage does the Ice Cap Ballast push 36" T5 bulbs at?
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    Does any one use 60" long T5?

    I'm thinking of getting 3 sets of 2x 80 watt 60" Tek retrofits. any one use them? are they good or bad?
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    My girlfriend thinks i talk more to people on SWF than her!

    What on earth gives her that idea?
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    Pet store expects fish shipment, but gets corpse

    From Yahoo.com http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/...e_human_corpse PHILADELPHIA – Employees of a Pennsylvania pet store expecting a shipment of tropical fish and salt water got a man's dead body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in northeast Philadelphia, where the mix-up was...
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    Options needed lights for a 72" L 125G tank.

    i bought a 125 gallon tank last week with my tax return money and i can not decided what light to get for my tank. one of my favorites so far is three Current USA SunDial HQI Pendant 1x150W 10K HQI / 2x32W Dual SunPaq Actinics. for around $230. does any one have one of these? or can some one...
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    Any one use Catalina Lighting?

    i can buy a 3 X 175W HID MH Retrofit for a great price of about $300.00 i really like that they are made in the U.S. but does any one know how good they are?
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    T5 Bulbs with Internal Reflector?

    has any one used them? like UVL bulbs.
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    Spectrum Brand fills for chapter 11!

    that company owns Tetra, Whisper, Marineland, Perfecto, Jungle, Instant Ocean, Visi-Therm. that would be a huge loss to the aquarium trade.
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    Help me pick new Power Compact Bulbs!

    so trying to decide what bulb set i should go with. i need 4 new 65 watt bulbs. 2 Blue Life USA SPS Power Compact 65W 10000K - Square Pin & 2 Blue Life USA SPS Power Compact 65W Actinic - Square Pin or 4 Blue Life USA SPS Power Compact 65W 50/50 - Square Pin or 2 Blue Life USA SPS Power...
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    what do you feed your fish?

    Flakes, pellets, frozen, or live food or even seaweed. i feed my fish a combo of 4 things through out the day. i use feed frozen food once a day normally in midday. i use larger pellets for my Sailfin Tang, Hippo Tang, and Fox face. but both my cardinal fish like the large pellets. and my...
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    Since when does ***** sell Brain corals?

    they can't keep fish alive but yet they think they can keep corals alive.
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    150 watt or 250 watt metal Halide?

    i want to put metal halide on my 55 gallon tank because i have a couple corals in my tank under 260 watt CF but i want more and better corals. so i decided to go with either 48” SunPod 2x150W HQI Fixture by Current USA or 48” SunPod 2x250W HQI Fixture by Current USA. the price...
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    any one know any thing about Aquatic Life HID Lighting System

    they had a ad in the tropical fish magazine and i was wondering if that is any good. i found one on the line for $799 for the 48 inch 2-150W HID, 2-T5 HO and 4 Lunar. what type of corals could be kept under that?
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    Best place to buy Frags?

    any one know of any good places on line that i can get good low priced frags for under $20 each?
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    going to be restocking clean up crew

    in june i bought 55 snails to go into my 55 gallon tank and 10 hemit crabs with 20 empty shells. one cleaner shrimp, one fire shrimp, and one black cucumber. today i have 5 crabs and 6 snails, and my black cucumber. so im going to restock my clean up crew. im thinking about buying 10 Nassarius...
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    Anyone use a Nitrate reductor?

    and if so does it work? i want to make sure it works well enough to justify me spending over $300 on one.
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