Recent content by singlejm

nice lighting change and flow rate

you need to put those SPS like that acro ALL the way at the top. You might keep them alive but their color and growth aren't gonna be good in a tank with just power compacts

ignore the baby snails on the glass and tell me what the white filter feeder is on the rock and is it harmless cause there multiplying pretty quickly

12 gallon nano multiple shrooms Red, Green, Green and Pink spotted. Unknown leather, green star polyps (frag) Maroon clownfish tank raised Dose Bionic 2 part 1 a week and target feed corals 1 a week with phytoplankton, cyclopeeze, and oyster eggs

found some of these in my filter now they are attaching to some base rock

Tank: 56 gallon column tank Lighting 1 250 watt DE metal halide 20000K Aqua Medic Livestock: 4 green chromis and 1 6 line wrasse Corals: green maze brain, hammer, candy cane, several zoanthids and mushrooms, encrusting gorgonian Filtration: 20 lbs of aragocrete from garf as base, 40lbs of...

I am considering 500 watts of halide over a 75 gallon tank is this completely crazy. 2 250 watt aqua-medic DE bulbs. This is about 6.5 watts per gallon. Will i be able to keep any soft corals and lps. or can i just keep stonies?

I'm am considering adding a refugium to my 75 gallon reef tank. Plumbing is a serious weakness for me in this hobby so i need some advice. I need to know how big of an overflow I should get since my tank isn't pre-drilled. I am considering using a 29 gallon for my refugium but don't know how...

I just ordered a aqua medic 250watt 20000K HQI pendant and have a few questions. Will these kelvin rating inhibit me from keeping certain corals since it is extremely blue. I really don't have the ability to supplement actinic so that is why I opted for the 20K vs. the 10K. My tank is 56...

keep me posted cause i was considering the same thing. 4 of those fixtures is like 144 watts i believe and i found them for 40 bucks a piece on the internet .My only ? is is it one reflector or individual lamp reflectors, cause individual seems like it would reflect every bit of light. But...

thanks for the advice

the wattage seems so low on t-5's. i not really familiar with them. how do they put out more light than pc's, and what wattage would you recommend

I' have been looking all over the net for a lighting solution for my new tank. The problem is it's 30' long but 24' deep and the only lights i can find in 30" are 2-65 watt pc. I've seen some halides for 30" but my center brace will block some of the light. I don't neccesarily need mh but 130...