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  1. Electrokate

    T5 Lighting recommendation

    I think I got the actinic white confused with the superactinic as others say that is a pink bulb. Sorry about by confusion, and especially sorry if it led to anyone else being confused. Thanks for the link to Grim's thread, it is great! I can't search reefcentral so rarely use it. When I try I...
  2. Electrokate

    T5 Lighting recommendation

    Just figured out the UVL SA is the pink one I hate. hahahahahahaha Is it not pink on your tank? Almost ordered it too! URI and UV are the same company. Go figure. The URI actinic is ok, but weak. I am very picky about color so may be impossible to satisfy, actually. I want the coral to have...
  3. Electrokate

    T5 Lighting recommendation

    Thank you, par is not my only consideration but that is very very helpful. I am wishing I had written down which bulbs were on the tank before I started my experiment, that was when my tank was at Susie/Tangee's house with Vickie's borrowed fixture, and the color was amazing. Night and day vs...
  4. Electrokate

    T5 Lighting recommendation

    Having used both T5HO and PC I can say you would be far better off with T5HO (not t5 NO-normal output-which are ok for freshwater but not reef tanks). PC bulbs will work well the first few months, then turn your corals brown, and after a year they are garbage, at which point they go pollute a...
  5. Electrokate

    T5 Lighting recommendation

    Do you guys have a bulb preference for T5 HO? Since they last so long I don't want to buy one that will not really cut it especially for actinics. My corals are beige with my current lighting. Growing like mad but pretty dull. Thanks, Kate
  6. Electrokate

    How much is your electricity bills.

    Portland OR 960 sf 1950's era house with no storm windows... winter will be interesting. Currently we are at 120 a month gas and electric together. We bought the house in march so don't know winter costs. I am running a 55 reef with 4 t5 ho bulbs (corals doubled in size in 6 months with this!)...
  7. Electrokate

    New to Dosing Kalkwasser

    I have always wondered... when you mix up kalk some settles out once the solution is saturated, the settled out part is discarded and the clear solution dosed. From my limited recollection of high school chemistry in 1987 I recall you cannot dissolve any more of a chemical after saturation. So...
  8. Electrokate

    Electrokate's 55 and 50

    55 is back My 55 is back and thriving thanks to Susie and Josh, who held the tank while I was in Hawaii. Josh got out of the hobby and Susie came to the rescue, taking my tank home for many months til I could come get it, and I owe her bigtime! Can't wait to help her set up her new huge tank...
  9. Electrokate

    Chocolate Tang/ Acanthurus Pyroferus

    I have one, it's very skittish. A friend got if for my tank a year ago as he swore they are the only tang that would eat bryopsis. I have a little niger trigger in there, he eats bryopsis so I can't tell if the chocolate also does. I can say mine is super mean so do take care with them. But I...
  10. Electrokate

    Australian acanthastrea on ebay legal?

    Nice looking stuff there, great photos too. I don't know about if this ebayer has the papers but it sounds like it is possible this is legit. It's interesting that Australia allows any coral out. The laws there on wildlife trading are very strict. Kate
  11. Electrokate

    Australian acanthastrea on ebay legal?

    It is someone in the US... probably just bought some indo stuff and relabeled it (: Kate
  12. Electrokate

    L.E., Tyree, true, fake and what not :p

    Wellllll.... I can add you to the list but there are some people ahead of you who are really important at least they feel they are since they are on the list so I guess that would be... 3 years? Price did go up slightly though to 72.99 a polyp. It's worth it though, because if you frag them you...
  13. Electrokate

    Anyone familiar with Brightwell Aquatics products?

    I actually dislike flash abuse. Does not help that am related to not one but 2 obsessive infomatics oriented software engineering perfectionists who apparently have gleaned from extensive study the "correct" way to set up a website. This ideal does not involve any flash or java, that's all I...
  14. Electrokate

    Australian acanthastrea on ebay legal?

    Hi, I got online looking for local sources of aquacultured coral on ebay and found a guy selling what he calls Australian imported acanthastrea (and other "rare" corals). My question is are there any legal issues with imported australian coral? I read the Borneman and Calfo articles on...
  15. Electrokate

    L.E., Tyree, true, fake and what not :p

    I just renamed my ordinary brown button palythoa type polyps "Kate Breimayer Cocoa Medallion Supreme Excellence" and the ones with green in the middle those are "Electrokate! Radiation! Superstar! Doubleplusgood!" Oh and can I name aiptasia and manjano too cause they don't have a special polyp...
  16. Electrokate

    Anyone familiar with Brightwell Aquatics products?

    Hey, A friend asked me about the product line by Brightwell Aquatics. I can't judge much by their website (other than that they have an excessive fixation with fly animations) Can anyone report anything on them? http://www.brightwellaquatics.com/ Thanks, Kate B
  17. Electrokate

    Power outage

    Glad to hear everything is ok. Guess if it was me I would check for ammonia and maybe plan a water change some time soon, but sounds like things are ok. Between UPS and air pumps that is a hard call. Air pumps work longer and we are entering storm season-last winter power was out for days in...
  18. Electrokate

    Power outage

    Last winter my friend kept his and my reef tanks going 7 days without power and this happened twice in a month. I think he lost just the red sea xenia, but everything else was fine including sps. He put blankets on the tanks and cranked up the woodstove for heat. His tank he stirred with his...
  19. Electrokate

    Birth of Dwarf Seahorses

    Great pictures! I love how the females are immediately checking out the newly available male (: Kate
  20. Electrokate

    Recent Photo's of my 180 :-)

    Hey, how is the red coris doing? Is it eating corals? Nice tank and photos! Kate
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