Recent content by Thumper

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Add a couple fans to help lower the temp and you need to get some water movement going, I would go with 3-4 maxijet 1200's aim a couple power heads at the surface to get the water moving and since I assume your still cycling your tank dont sweat the ph to much right now but after your cycle you...

However I'm sure they work ok, it's only adding a band aid to the problem you have. Need to find the source of the no3 and cure the problem rather than just patching it up for a temp fix. List your set up and lets see what we can do to help out.

Sound like he about summed up how to solve your problem. No3 is a offspring of amonia breaking down. A good skimmer will help a lot to remove it from the tank.

Do you mind sending them to me pm. I plan on doing this within the next month. I allready have most of the equipment needed to run the tank, all i really need are the lights. How many corals could you raise in a 40-50 breeder tank. would 50-60 frags be possible in a tank this size.

Sounds like a flood waiting to happen.

Ok, so I'm not the only frag freak around here,lol Thats what I was thinking, plumbing it into my current system,

I run my vho's with mh with all actinic bulbs but I can assure you that you'll be happy with your light set up. Everyone has their oppinions and I'm not saying that theirs not a difference but for the price you cant beat what you purchased. Lighting set up's are not an exact science and I love...

I run 750 watt's mh 8 hours a day and 440 watts of vho 11 hours a day.

Who has a frag only tank. I was thinking of adding a frag tank to my collection to help offset some ofthe expense of my main tank by selling a few frags, nothing extreme and not trying to make a serious profit, just something to play with and make a little on the side to help out with the main...

I added a Tunze t24 kit as well. You can set the flow at your desire and change it up in a ton of different ways not to mention I can turn he tank over 40 times per hour if need be. I have it set at around 25 times per hour right now not to mention my mag 18 return pump. However you only need to...

Well honestly most of my algae problem was taken care of by adding the Tunze's and getting the flow up. I'm going to add another ph and aim it at the point of impact for now and see what this does. I'm going right now to turn the pumps to wide open which will be around 6000 gph and see what this...

Ok , i have a rock that has cyno on it and it's not going away, All my other algae problems are gone except this, how do I get rid of it and remove it from this rock. I've never dealt with cyno before and it's time for it to go as well. thanks for your help.

Whats the best going chiller in the 1/2 horsepower range.

20 times per hour on a reef is real good. Any hard corals are better off with more flow than 10 times per hour, faster growth.