Recent content by bill0298

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Welcome, nice to see there are others here in Iowa... :)

That's kinda what I was thinking.. I wanted to catch as much of the spectrum I could. I ordered the lights today. Thanks.. :)

I have had 12k XM 175's in before and that seemed like it was too much blue...

I have a oceanic tank, both of mine are adjusted all the way up as high as they will go.

For what it's worth, I put my 150 over the basement up against the wall and sandwiched my osb beams under the tank with 3/4 plywood to stiffen them up and added a 4x4 support column in the basement.. **Please understand that I'm not a structural engineer***:rolleyes:

Hello all, I am in the process of replacing my lights on my 150gal reef tank. Currently I have three 175w MH 10k XM bulbs, one URI 50/50 160w bulb and one corallife 160w actinic bulb lighting the tank (I would like just a little more blue). Currently I have a few LPS and soft corals, but no...

Hello, I need some advice.. I have a 150gal tank that I'm in the process of setting up. Over the last two weeks I have added all of my live rock from my old tank in Okc, I now live in Iowa. Of course, I'm having some die-off from the rock that was just moved. I bought a Turbo Flotor 1000...

me too.....

It's the same activated carbon that is used in tropical tanks. You can buy at wal-mart in the fish isle. Just get a filter media bag, fill it up with carbon, and place it in an area of water flow. :)

I was able to break a piece of the rock of with the good zoos on it, however the rock they are attached to was not that dense. I have in the past removed zoos from a rock by scraping them off with a razor blade and then super glueing them to another rock, I've had about a 90% success rate with...

Hmmm........ That makes sense..... I fragged a healthy piece of the blue zoo colony just before it melted down and that frag seems to be doing fine.... Does anyone know of any medication that would correct this problem? Yesterday I cut the piece of rock that the dying zoo's were on and moved...