Mits

I want a lighting upgrade and was thinking of starting toward a DIY LED setup, but it may be a while until I can afford to put it together and I think that new items and ideas are going so fast that I'd be better served to let it play out a little more. I'm currently running 2x250w MH SE bulbs with parabolic spider reflectors and I can get a couple Lumenbright minis for about $88 each. I know it would focus a lot more light into the tank and I'd need to acclimate, but will it increase heat or ...

I have tons of copepods in my refugium, it's to the point that there are little clouds of them swarming all over the place. It's pretty amazing, I can just stare at them and all of the other stuff in there as much as the display tank. I just don't see them in the display. I'm trying to figure out if they are numerous enough to add a mandarin. The tank was upgraded from a 2 year old 55 to the current 120 last summer, and the only other place I've seen copepods as dense as mine is at Inland Aquatics. ...