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Had a blast the last couple of days putting 220 watts of power compact lighting in my community tank and retrofitting the 17 watt strip light over my ghost shrimp tank to run a 55 watt power compact bulb! It all looks great!

I now have a bunch of baby ghosts. I found a place called aquaBid and am thinking of adding a dozen rcs. It is really fun to watch the shrimp they r so active

That would be funny in an aquarium! The light kit I found looks well designed I can hardly wait to put them up. I may l finally post some pics maybe. My little 30 gal ghost shrimp tank is gorgeous. Making so many little ghosties now.

The wrap says these r for freshwater, planted tanks or reefs I am thinking they may not be old school at all

Lol it is power compact not compact fluorescent. I am the confused one here sorry!

Thanks guys. So I gather these r kind of old school out of date tech. Sounds right up this old guys alley I think I will put up 4 and see how they look found a nice bright kit with good reflectors and electronic ballasts online. I am definitely going for it.

Hi jeffp. Sorry I thought the initial post said but I will read off of the box Realux professional lighting systems 55 watt plug in u-bulb Daylight 7100 k Bias t-4 4-pin Rapid start 21 inches It is a thin twin bulb with 4 straight pins on one end and a couple of connecting points between the...

So 220 watts of 7100 k in a 125 gallon tank is super low lighting? I guess the two 30 watt normal output lights I have now must qualify as super duper low lighting! Come on already! My moss, and sword plants are doing well in what I have. Seems like an upgrade to 220 watts would be more than...

I stumbled into a bunch of 21" 55W 7100K Realux brand daylight compact fluorescent bulbs. I couldn't pass them up at $4.99 apiece at a surplus store. I keep a 125 gallon community tank with Java and Christmas moss and a bunch of Platy's, and some other community fish. What I need to know...

So sorry about your Bettas! I hope they all survive. I have a male and felale in my community tank and they are my favorites!

Just an update on my shrimp setup. The tank is covered up now with little ghost shrimp. I think it is because of the large hung of Java Moss I put in it a while back. Oh and the Garni bag I wrapped around my hang on tank intake was a bad idea. It dissolved in just a week slowing filtration...

Amazing deals Huh?

I want to thank everyone for the advice. I haven't lost any more fish and my tank's ph has recovered to 6.4. I am feeding sparingly and watching my ammonia. I feel confident the tank is going to stabilize and am loving having the big tank in our living room where we can enjoy it more.

I've got a post under Dr Bombay emergency come right away

I will try that I,ve got about 20 platys 2 Corey cats 2 bettas 3 oto's and a big pleco

No I've never used buffers. My ph runs about 7.4 and I thought that was okay for a community tank.

so do you not think the carbon dropped my ph?

I moved my community aquarium inhabitants into it 6 days ago. Tank now crashing asking for help

I've really screwed up and need some help. Already lost my clown loach and want to protect the rest of my guys. 6 days ago I moved a 75 gallon tank to a 125 gallon tank. Previous readings were PH 7.4, nitrite 0, nitrate 40, temp 76F. After carefully moving my livestock to buckets with siphoned...

Craigslist rocks but u have to be patient. I have been looking for months. The trick is to go to pets then click on all for sale/wanted. Pulls in everything. Sergie that is a great deal! Congrats!

I just ended up junking it. It wouldn't stay in one place and got all over deverything

I just picked up a 125 galllon 5 year old tank, stand, lights, top, lots of accessories including a nice clean and fill apparatus with 40 feet of hose and a Rena XP3 canister filter, river rock, and several large artifical rock pieces all for $300.00. The tank came from Petco and is 5 years...

Danged spell check. I mean Platy fry not platypus .

It may be hair algae but I don't think so. MIT is a large free floating mass I could toss out easily if wanted. It's pretty and great cover for my Platypus fry I just don't know what it is

just some random shots of my tanks