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so, i have been hearing good things about led panels from china. theses black boxes seem to be doing well for an affordable price, especially when i am told i would need 6 maxspect mazzara panels (60watts each), so i have a tank that is 29 deep 72long and 24 wide, mixed reef mostly dominated by...

Just got my frogspawn, it's awesome 7 heads violet and green tipped tenticales an already starting to open up after about 3 hrs in its new home, this is my second colony but first one in this tank, any ideas on how to get it to open up sooner or fuller?

so, i have a 215 reef tank with diy mh and t5 lighting, around 1000watts (a bit more actually) however it is one hard core eyesore and i am looking at getting a full led lighting set up like the ai sol or maxspect mazarra, or maybe ecotech radion? any one know how much led power i need? i want...

so i am re-building my light fixture, i got it with only one 400watt metal halide and 3 sockets... only one ballast works. you see the issue. and i have a solution, i have 2 more mh400watt systems coming this weekend. they each have individual parabolic reflectors and the one that came "stock"...

So I upgraded to a 215 and it crashed when I moved it. Kicked up a lot of waste and detritus which spiked chemistry leading to my tank move crashtastrophy. SO... I find this little guy in my old tank on some of my established live rock. The last tank was 8mons old( pulled rock from the old and...

So I move my 215 gallon tank. It loaded up with about 4 years of corals mostly softies a chalace and a few Lps. All the coral was doing fine during the trip even though the temp was in the high 90s that day. I even had my zoos opening in the rubber maids along with my giant Kenya tree opened up...

alrighty, i am upgrading my system( around 2500 bucks! new apex controller, vortech ecotech mp40w, lighting more rock, etc. wifes going to flip sh**!!!!) and im looking into getting the kessile a150w, but i dont know the PAR values or lumen values, i am thinking 2-4 for my 120, from what i have...

so i got this little guy as a gift from my dad, he is moving and taking his tank apart in order to make a 2000 gallon monster, will try to get pics and post build, however, at the moment, he gave me one of his fish that he cant remember what it is. he had a fish only tank i have a reef tank, but...

i found this panel on ebay, it has a white and blue spectrum and 225 i beilive 1watt leds per panel. i am using this idea to buildmy own, however using two watt leds and using less. (less holes and or bus bars for me to work on, plus relativly the same cost at wholesale) if you search ebay it...

So I am moving to norfolk in early dec, i t was sprung on me by the navy. Lol so, the real question is what to do with my fish corals and all the others?

So I am moving to norfolk in early dec, i t was sprung on me by the navy. Lol so, the real question is what to do with my fish corals and all the others?

So I am moving to norfolk in early dec, i t was sprung on me by the navy. Lol so, the real question is what to do with my fish corals and all the others?

i am looking into getting a UV for my system. light bioload in the tank, a few corals. i havent really had any water issues except cloudy water here and there. lately i got another bacteria bloom due to a timer going out and leaving lights on for 2X longer than normal. upgraded to digital timers...

Thus maybe the wrong foroum for my first question, I have 3metal 250watt metal halides at 20000k. And 320+ watts of power compasts. Astheticaly I love the blueish spectrum, actually looks like diving in the ocean back home. I shorted out my night lights and heading out to solder the connections...

so heres my idea, i have turbid water, and thats my only problem, ph and all other levels are perfect, my corals are growing like crazy(as much crazy as corals do) nothing is dead, except a snail that the hermits are currently eating, along with a little nassarius snail. i cant tell if the...

Here is my issue, I have a regal tang and coral beauty that have ick, my snowflake eel does not at the momement from what I can tell. What do I do, I have had this tank for about 4months and I used 90lbs of live substrate and a holy crap ton of live rock, along with a xenia zoo and mushroom or...

I added about 15 gallons to my 125 display and the water got cloudy, all my inverts and fish are fine, all the corals sre doing well, I just dispise :flame: the cloudy water. How do I get rid of the cloudy water with out hurting my corals and other animals? Its a relativly light bio load, about...

so many diffrent ideas on quantity and types of clean up crews, i just wana compile a list of all the diffrent options a reefer can have that work effectivly. some thing that i read was about 1 cleanup type snail per 2-3 gallons once its established, (mix and match the available species, like...

i am upgrading, more like rebuilding a 120gal tank. i need to decide on lights because i want corals this time around and i cant remember if the general rule is 3-5wats per gallon. plus i hae a deep 120, its 60x18x"24ish" its got the same footprint of a 75 regular. heres my options: 1) fixture...

Well after my lion fish just passed this snail appears on an ornament. Whelk? Conch? or whatand is it a good or bad animal to keep in the tank? Pic in next thread. Phone is not working.