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a normal week for me is 10 gallons, my total water volume is approx 125 gallons, during the summer i was battling a dino outbreak and trying to keep my ph high, the only was i could do that was to run a box fan over the 36 and was using a kalk stirrer for makeup to keep my ph around 8.4. I was...
They are mandarins which are dragonetts. Beautiful fish, pod eaters. Their mating ritual is second to none. The male and femal will show their flags to each other, and if she's feeling frisky, they lock fins and do a twirling dance upward. Our scooter dragonettes used to do it almost nightly.
on the water, to help keep it cool. I run clip fans on my reef tanks and they make a noticable diffrence, just have it set to come on with your light. You will evaporate alot more water, I would try it without the fans first and see what your temp fluctuations are. If it is too much then use...
only iron, but there is alot of fish in there,I used kitty litter for the substrate, took days of gravel vacuming to remove all the silt but was worth it in the end.
not halogens, but led. i think they are 18 watts each. as far as plants, i dont know i got a bag of plants from the lfs and spent hours separating them out.
just hang a couple of par 38 LED lights over it. about the same par as the MH without the heat. I found some that are dimmable locally for like 40 apiece, woot woot score! plants love them.
depends, the way i understand it if you plant very heavily from the start and with this much light you would want to supplement co2, otherwise your gonna have an algae problem. You could also raise the light higher if necessary. of course this is all assuming this is a mh fixture. I have a 250...