Recent content by hawaiiguy

Thanks for all the suggestions!... I finally figured it out and I am rather embarrassed :oops: After spending hours taking apart the hood, cleaning the contacts, changing bulbs, looking at the JBJ site, forums, etc here's what happened: apparantly my 2yr old daughter went into the tank stand and...

I have a 6 gallon modified JBJ nano tank (with 3x18 watt PCs) and one of the bulbs burned out. I went to the store and picked up a Coralife bulb to replace the dead one but it was slightly bulkier than the original. When I replaced the plastic cover, the gasket didn't fully seal around the...

well, the problem is that this was from a little mom n pop store which I trust very much... this was a little more my fault because when I bought her, she had just came in the same day and normally the store owner wouldn't sell unadjusted fish like that but I kinda talked him into it :oops: Oh...

I've had her about a week. The only reason I'm a bit concerned about an infection is because a few others from the LFS with her came down with some kind of infection and a few died. The LFS owner isn't sure what it is.

She's got something growing around her mouth... It showed up the day after I rearranged my live rock. I think all the detritus and pollution that was stirred up when I did the rearranging may have triggered it. At the moment she's in a quarantine tank and I'm slowly lowering salinity. It's...

The reflector doesn't actually touch the bulb but it is close all around it... I'll bend it back so it's not so close and maybe install a fan to keep it cool.

Well this has been a bad couple of days for my tank... I just discovered my poor firefish goby half dried up on the ground about a foot from the tank... :cry: Poor guy probably didn't like all the fiddling I've been doing with this stupid light and just wanted out! I think what I'll do is...

you can see the black powdery stuff on the left side and the white residue on the glass tube that encases the bulb. The outer casing also has a thin crack along the far right edge which happened when I installed the bulb. The crack did not affect the inner bulb, just the outer tube. Was that...

Well, after this whole incident I shut the bulb down for the day. Now, this morning the bulb wouldn't turn on at all; it just flickers for a second and then stays off. So I looked at the bulb and this is what it looks like:

I just had a serious tank disaster! I have a 250 watt double ended MH bulb (14,000K) that is in a homemade "pendant". I decided to use pyrex as a uv shield, so I cut the bottom out of a baking dish to fit the cover. Well, it was on for about 5-10 minutes when I hear this explosion above my...

Ok, I've read threads that describe the use of calcium hydroxide (usually neutralized with acetic acid). I'm a big fan of DIY so rather than by a calcium reactor, I like the idea of a homemade source of Ca(OH)2. I went to my local hardware store to check out their lime mix and here's the...

copepods... whew! I figured that's what they were but I thought I'd be sure. I read about those scary isopod fish parasites once and panicked when I saw these little guys. Hey seven, what do you mean the best is yet to come... what should I be watching for? Oooo I'm sooo excited! (not just...

My 65 gal reef tank has been cycling with live rock for about a month now. There are no fish yet, just crabs and snails. I just noticed that there are thousands of tiny little critters swimming about in my water. If I had a microscope I could describe them more thoroughly... they are smaller...

I just ordered a bunch of Astrea's, scarlet hermits and blue hermits. Most are spoken for by others but I won't be able to deliver for another 3 days. There's 100 Astreas and 120 crabs. The scarlets don't really move much. Will they be ok for that long in a 2gal rubbermaid with a heater and...

I need a reef crew for my new tank (set up for about a month) but I'm wondering if the aragonite crushed coral fragments are too big for Nassarius snails to bury themselves in. Do they only do well with a sand bed?