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    Anyone use 20k Ushio's?

    It is that time of the year again and I have just added a third 250W MH so I can get a 20K bulb back in for some better coloration. I saw that Ushio now has a 20K and was wondering if anyone has used it and how it compares to the 20K radium. Let me know your experiences. Thanks. Chris
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    MH lamp placement

    I just got my third MH to add to my tank and now I have to figure out how to fit them in. Right now I have the two of them so the lamp is parallel to the longest axis of the tank. Should I try to fit all three this way or should I turn them all so they are purpendicular to the long axis of the...
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    Santa's present for me

    Congratulations Gabby, why wife is now nine weeks along with our first! :) My wife would understand what you are going through with the morning sickness, she has had that nauseated feeling almost all the time for the last three or four weeks. Again crongrats. Chris
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    How about this ID?

    i agree with Rusty that they are tunicates also know as sea squirts. Chris
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    Spray bar placement

    I have a pentagon tank, so it is in the shape of a diamond to fit in the corner and I am going to put a spray barb or two in to bring some flow from the back. My question is do I run them along the sides of the tank or do I run them so they are parallel with the front glass and put them...
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    New light setup for my sps tank.

    Thanks for the advice. I already had to do some surgery on the existing reflectors becasue my vho's wouldn't fit in properly with the halide reflectors. I agree with your thoughts of the 2 14K and a 20k. I hope the 20K will cover enough of the tank to keep up the colors. I have actinic...
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    New light setup for my sps tank.

    My tank is 150 gal pentagon about 22" deep and 38 -40" wide from front corner to front corner. My main concern is if one radium is going to be enought to keep the colors or would I be better with two, and in that case is one 14K going to be enough to keep the better growth? Always more...
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    Baking my rock

    No I wasn't going to power wash them I was going o scrub them before they go into the next tub of saltwater to bake some more. Chris
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    New light setup for my sps tank.

    I currently have 2 250 watt PFO HQI mh halides with 14k hamiltons in them. I use to run radiums, but couldn't afford them last time I replaces my bulbs. I am now adding a third 250 Watt MH and was curious with good combinations of bulbs for color and growth? I was considering 2 14k hami's and...
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    cl plumbing ?

    Well let me tell you from my recent personal experience if an elbow or hose lets go there is nothing you can really do. I had a hose pop off of one of my lower outlets in my tank about 3 or 4" off the bottom fall off and I lost a 100 gallons. It didn't help that my sump pump kept pumping the...
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    Baking my rock

    That sounds like an idea I am going to have to try it. Thanks Chris
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    Baking my rock

    Yeah it is wirey, I knew this couldn't go that easy. :)
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    Baking my rock

    I would not neccessarily say it is a problem with an improperly run tank. I have a fifty gallon sump with refugium, I only feed every other day only what the fish can eat in a minute. For flow I had an ampmaster 3000 on there with a genx pump that produces around 1400 gph. So that is 4400 GPH...
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    Nitrates Finally Gone!

    I never answered your question nikki about how much rock and what size of tank. I have a 125 gal pentagon with 250lbs of rock. It was stacked in there pretty tight so that could be par of it. The flow may have never had a chance to pass over the rock and remove the waste. Chris
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    Nitrates Finally Gone!

    Well for all the time I have been having problems with algae I always thought that maybe it was a problem with phosphate. AHHHHHH, wrong answer. I bought a test to see and I tested four times and it every time it came up 0. The search goes on. Chris
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    Baking my rock

    Well, I just changed the water in the baking tub for the third time and I noticed something kind of wierd. All of the hair algae is gone, but the was a tough red string short algae that really hung on to the rocks that is not going away. Also, I thought for sure that the color on the coraline...
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    Disaster Strikes!!!

    That is true. I have about half of the rock out right now and I actually like the look of it now and it looks like there is actually more space to put frags. Chris
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    Disaster Strikes!!!

    Yeah it was definitly nice of dean and chuck to try and save some of my pieces. I don't know any other hobby that people would be willing to do the same thing in an emergency situation. Chris
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    Disaster Strikes!!!

    Just a quick update, the GARF purple bonsai that chuck tried to save is gone along with the few other nice colonies he also tried to save. I lost three or four of the corals that dean tried to save, but there were several other frags that he was able to save that are doing good. The rock I am...
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    Sea Swirl Wavemaker

    I have two of the 3/4" on my 125gal and I love them. Chris
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