Recent content by rwesurfn

Electronic ballasts cost less to operate but, will not fully drive some bulbs. If you have a place to easily remote mount your ballast I would go with the magnetic ballast. some electronic ballasts dont do well with certain bulbs as far as driving them properly. on the other hand some magnetic...

yes.... the pc's are in an ultimate reef hood from pet supply liquidator that i have suspended over tank. Didnot want to go with the typical enclosed wooden hood because od the heat issue

Is a 250 watt mh too much lite for a 29 gal?? I currently have 165 watts of pc. 2-10000K and 1-50/50 and everything seems to be doing great. I am an electrician and seem to have a few 175 and 250 watt mh ballasts that were "leftover" from jobs I did and ended up at my house....odd huh? Anyway...

for the most part Aquaticreefsystems and airwaterice seem to be the top 2 preferred companies on most of the reef boards i frequent, .....did a lot of research before i bought mine... and if you just want fishy water take a look at the typhoonIII from airwaterice

if you have a family and your drinking water is rather suspect and you want ro/di for your reef tank then you cant go wrong with the home/reef from airwaterice http://www.airwaterice.com/home_reef.htm your family and tank inhabitants will love you for it. took me less than an hour to install...

I live in springdale and have not seen it here....I was at my dads house the other day and noticed a bag or 2 of tropical play sand.....but didnt look any closer at it. I had already given up on finding and went with aragonite..........high dollar let me tell ya. I will check out the bags at his...

yes...i own the dual home/reef system from airwaterice.com...it is great. it was much, much easier to install than i thought, and helped the taste of my drinking water tremendously, also got the icemaker hookup. total installation time was less than an hour including drilling the sink. I would...

I am relatively new, but would agree whole heartedly not to add anything that you can not test for

I just got my ro/di from http://www.airwaterice.comwas well packaged very easy to install and works totally awesome. I got the dual home reef system, optional icemaker hookup and TDS meter. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking to buy an ro/di system. ordered last tuesday, received...

try http://www.airwaterice.com/

well...was doing some rearranging last nite and rock fell onto my toad stool, it didnot open back up last nite....this morning polyps came out but not all, and are not extended as far as normal will it make it??? is there anything i can do to help it?....will post before and after pics if you...

look to the left on this shroom.....it almost looks as if something is trying to grow out of it, what is it doing?? and what kind of mushroom is it? Thanks,

tank is just a few months old, how do i get my alkalinity down?.....do not have a calcium test kit yet yes i measured in meq/l could it be from my tap water? PH is about 8.1 salinity is about 1.023

also alkalinity is 6.5.....is this good, bad???

i have a fairly new tank, 29 gal 30 lbs. LR about 3 inches oolitoc aragonite 1 inch or so of live sand rock was cured at LFS and has lots of coraline algae bakpak IIR skimmer fluval 304 running carbon only for a few days (normally run it empty just to help w/circulation nitrites 0 nitrates...