Up until now I have run 10k bulbs in my fixtures... it has resulted in amazing growth but the colors arnt as nice as before and its time to buy new bulbs. I will be going with either a 14k or 20k bulb for some nice colors but I want high as possible par for good growth...
Which would be the best...
Today I did some reartanging in my tank and accidently knocked a rock over and broke off a few peices of some of my SPS corals. I have since crazy glued them to small rocks and put them in my sump. I currently only have a 65k CFL on my turf scrubber in my sump and thats it for lighting...
I have...
I am already running sump which is covered with a scrubber so there is already alot of evap from that...
another point that was brought up... i am constaly battling salt creep... will that stop if i go topless?
I need to keep it covered as I have a huge issue with humidity in my apartment... and having no top on my tank with all tht water movement will release alot of unneeded moisture into the air
its 24" deep. The 10k bulbs come with it but i would prob buy 14k when i went threw all 10 10k bulbs
How much heat to MH give off? Would I need to space them above my tank?
I just sold my paintball gun(FINALLY) and have a bunch of money to upgrading my lighting...
So the time has come to choose between a brand new 8x54 T5HO or a used "need to modify to fit my application" 3x250 MH hood w/6 10k bulbs.
They are about the same price by the time I finish buying bulbs...
Today I picked a few more hammer corals to complete my color collection but i am also running outta room bewteen others... SO what will there sting kill? All the others are hammers, frogspawn, zoos, xenia, kenya trees and ricorias
So after a out break of ick lead to velvet and eye infections which killed off all my beautiful lionfish I have a empty reef tank and I am afraid of this happening again...
What is the best and most sure fire way of getting all the parasites out of my system for good? DO I have to leave it...
I only intend to use the LR until my homemade biofilter is up and running then it will be dryed out then put back into my sump.
And the way I see it, if I put a fish in a QT it could be in there for 3 weeks before it shows anything at the point I might have put it into my DT... why not hypo it...
So after going threw 2 huge parasite outbreaks and losing BOTH of my huge lionfish... All cuz I dont run a QT...
I learned my leason...
1. Always have a QT running...
2. Dont assume someone else can maintain a stable emergency QT...
So I have a simple question... Can a few peice of live rock...