It almost feels wrong counting days of the 215g temporary tank. The 400g ran for just over 13 months when it sprung a leak, and that mental counter was discontinued. In order to fix the tank, it needed to be emptied, and eight days ago I was able to squeeze a loaner aquarium into the fishroom to hold the livestock. As soon as everyone left, my cold kicked into overdrive and I ended up trying to will away the flu with all the meds I had on hand. It took a full week to get back on ...
hey all, i have a 55g reef tank and im currently using a single mp10 to create the flow in my tank for a long time i used it on one end of the tank and it kinda left the other side of my tank dead, i intend to purchase antother one when i get a chance and find a good deal on one. anyways i recently moved the vortech to the back of my tank and about 6" from the surface of the water and dead center in the tank, it seems as of right now that this is the optimum placement for my tank, along with ...
I decided to treat myself for my birthday. At MAX a few weeks ago, CAD Lights (www.cadlights.com) was displaying their new multichip LED fixtures. Reef Builders blog covered them here: http://reefbuilders.com/2012/04/06/c...ulti-chip-led/ After talking to Eddie from Cad Lights about them, I decided to go with the middle model, the 50w multichip (62 total watts) to replace my 250 halide over my frag tank. The claim is the 50w replaces a 250w halide, the 100w replaces a 400w. By the ...
I finally did the one thing with this hobby I swore I would never do. Not that what I did was a necessarily bad thing but I just had a hard time convincing myself that it was worth it. What exactly is it you might ask? I finally broke down and purchased a Vortech Mp40. That's right I swore to myself that I would never spend that much money on what always amounted in my head to a very expensive power head but, as I have gained a very generous promotion at work and would like nothing more but to see ...
In my previous blogs I have mentioned that I would be upgrading my system from the crappy LED's and Sea-Clone protein skimmer that I have. Slowly but surely as of last night the new Protein Skimmer was added (although it might have been way overkill haha) but thats what you should always do with any aspect of your tanks filtration. The lights have been on for probably 2 and a half weeks now and coral growth has been ridiculous since that time. (as far as my Chalices and Acros are concerned) ...
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