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    Annoyng scarlet cleaner shrimp.

    Had the same problem with a skunk, I would just feed him first then feed everythng else. Though he did learn a quick lesson when tried to steal food from my flower anemone. He got hit antenna stuck in the tentacles. Took him a bit to get it out.
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    Elevating Lights

    oh yeah, so my hood took a little swim while I was working on raising it. Everything works except one of the fans. Can I just trace back the wires and check for corrision or do you think it is something more?
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    Elevating Lights

    I just used eye bolt, eye screws, and some cable. Cost me a total of $1.20 I think make the actually suspensin parts. The shelf itself would have been the most expensive part, but luckily my old boss owed me some money and gave me 82 lbs of live rock and a shelf with brackets. . It is up...
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    Elevating Lights

    I was just on the PFO page and they have a wire suspension system for them
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    Elevating Lights

    ok, the eye bolts make sense. I was think about doing something similar with the shelving too. Normally I can at least think throgh DIY project but I feel brain dead about this one. What are your thoughts on a material to suspend?
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    Elevating Lights

    hmmm....intestering. That should work I think. I am tall enough to be able to use the shelf too. Now the trick is going to be find a good hanging setup
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    Elevating Lights

    It doesn't matter but I don't think I will have much of a choice. The tank is setup, and I don't want to move it.
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    Elevating Lights

    Sorry, didn't make myself clear. Those need to be mounted on a stud correct? Then the plan was to basically hang a chain from the bar coming out and attach the chain to the hood. Well, if I need to hang them on a stud it is going to be offset a bit.
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    Elevating Lights

    I actually think I may have one problem doing it. I went and found the studs behind the wall that they were to hung on and they don't match up with the holes on the hood. Any suggestion on how to deal with this problem?
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    Cool picture, how'd I do it?

    Yeah, I am pretty sure that is the order of things when that pic was shot. What do you mean 2 or 1 point click?
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    MH and Corals

    Well, the original plan when I bought these light is that they would not be on a 125g forever, probably not even for a year (upgrading tanks will be the plan). Not mention that 3x400w MH was only about $80 more than 3x250w MH. So what possibility of problems could you foresee happening with...
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    MH and Corals

    The VHOs are merely there for aesthetics (offset the generally yellowness from a 10k MH bubl), and that is pretty much my understanding of all actinic bulbs anyways. On the bright side electricity is cheap here, $0.065 a KWH. Anyways, can you out compete mother nature? I bow to your knowledge...
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    Cool picture, how'd I do it?

    That would certainly be an interesting illusion if that was the case but it is not. Not that good with photoshop either so. I know it can be done (obvisously) I just don't know how to blur the foreground and focus the background with a camera when I want to, though I am not sure why exactly...
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    Elevating Lights

    Well, I will do it this weekend and post pictures to show everyone how it turned out.
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    parenting advice 101

    I am no parent and don't plan to be for awhile. But I will offer what has been done to me, and I was quite the defiant child when I was younger. Try taking away certain privillege maybe. I was brought up being spanked and I don't nessarily beleive in it now, but for me it never really hurt...
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    Elevating Lights

    Not a bad idea Reefdaddy. Would they be strong enough to support them though? The unit it self does not weigh that much but it isn't designed exactly to support the weight in that way. Still one the best yet. Krish, what do you mean make them out of plastic? I am assuming you don't mean...
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    Elevating Lights

    That is it.
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    Elevating Lights

    As far as I know they don't make legs. The sell a kit for hanging I believe but that is it. How would you make legs?
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    Elevating Lights

    Those are really freakin' cool, but out of the scope of my handyman abilities. One guy I talked to last night suggest just building two L's and hang it from the a chain that way. It isn't a bad idea but I was looking for something better. Doesn't have to be too pretty. I don't have an photos...
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    Caribsea PurpleUp

    I have been using it for awhile and I just use it by itself. Works great. Took about 1.5 months before I started seeing results but I really like it.
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