Recent content by golfish

I've been in you your shoes before. It could take months to sell the live stock at those prices. The corals might be worth $ but not the fish. Like mentioned, I'd sell it all or split up the live stock and the equipment. It takes some talent to move a whole live setup like that.

There's a large green slimer on the top of this tank. I used to break hand size frags off for reefers back in the day. It really was a fast grower. Half of the corals in this tank were started from frags. I think this was taken in 2002..

Saltwater 1986....reefs since 1998

It's too bad. BRS doesn't have the best customer service. I think I'll go back to using Premium Aquatics..

Hey all, I'm going to move my chiller out to the garage and I'm using my old AM3k for sump return. Its about a 7.5 foot rise to the crawl space, about 7-8 feet parallel over to the chiller, through the 3/4" fittings on the chiller (why does Aqualigics do that?) then back to the tank..I've had...

your right...I'll call PFO on Monday. I just replaced my HQI ballast with a standard ballast and the bulbs work just fine......I'm thinking the capasitor needs to be replaced?

I'm running 400 watt 10K XM bulbs (3 months old) on a dual 400 watt PFO HQI ballast (4 year old) I noticed a few days ago that one of the bulbs was dimming and in a matter of 2-3 seconds it would go bright, This cycle lasted all day. I swapped it with the bulb on the other side and the same...

Bob, Kudo's for you, I'm glad to see that you stopped spreding your **** on the newbie forums...or did the mods do that?

FWIW, I've ran a few of these pumps since they came out and I had one burn up a few months ago. It didn't pollute the tank like my Rio did when it bruned up but never the less it did burn up. 3-5 months isn't all that great for a 50.00 pump..

AM3K running for 4 years now...I did have to replace the seal due to restart problems after the first year. Because of the lack of and out right nasty customer service I wouldn't buy another one. I've seen a few Sequence pumps in action, I like em..

That'll be enough of that :lol: My TDS reading is 160 :D

Is it the heaters that fail or is it the contollers\built in contollers...I think we'd all like to be like beaslbob (NOT) and not have to use heaters but for some of us, even in So Cal our tanks need them.. IMO, its the built in contollers that are failing. I'm looking at one of these in the...

Gee, you'd think you'd be happy your getting some replies...I guess we could just let this thread die, sink into another world and you'd be stuck with my and only my advice. :cry:

Chris, Its the ceramic shafts that are the worst. I have the same problem with my MJ PH's, it just takes them longer to loc up cause of the SS shafts. Then again I have a Sedra that drives my Euro Reef (ceramic) that sucker will run for ever and startup every single time. I only clean it every 6...

Chip, we disagree again :D I've used the 400 watt Sunburst and thought it was way too blue and too dim. My Radiums are white compared to the Sunburst bulbs.