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Thanks for all the help !

Followed all your suggestions and colt is picking up . Thanks Alot

LawnDocter - do you know any of those websites URL's ? Also i would have to say that my star polyps in my tank not doing as well as they were with no plexi on the tank. I think this could be from a number of things : 1) Excess heat traped in tank causes temp to rise. This is happening - tank...

Cool. The colt is drooping on some mushrooms - will this be bad for shrooms ?

2 10,00k MH bulbs 1 -175 W / 1-250 W - Plenty of blue baby - Iwasaki Bulbs - Never had Actinic Lights on my tank - You can check out my lights, setup, and coraline color atAJ REEF. My server is down just today though - check it tommorow

OK more input needed please ?!? But on another topic how close can my 32 W PC bulbs be to the water, how much does splashing effect the bulbs !

Just picked up new Colt Coral- kinda grayish purple - and it's not doing great ? My tank is a 90 Gal with sufficiant skimming, good levels, no bio-balls ! or sillyness, lots of rock, water flow , and excellent lighting. The rest of my colts, young, and similar soft tissue corals are doing fine...

Should I remove the 1/4" plexi-glass top on my tank and go with nothing. My reservations are : the risk of shattering my bulbs. Also I will have to clean them off once a week due to salt build up. Questions: Does the plexi glass cut the good ( right spectrum)light out significantly or is it...

I have a Sony Cyber shot 2.1 Megapixel camera ! It is awsome check out some pics it tookof my reef tank with hardly any light in the room ! I took pics camping at night with camera and they came out excellent too. Camera take video. I paid about $425

I know that Custom Sea Life sells a retro- fit product in 32 watt PC and up. Ask LFS (local fish store) if they can get you one ! Mabey 2-55 watts would be better - if affordable , but 2-32 watt PC's will do. Shop around Custom sea life has a web site at "www.customsealife.com" satrt there, and...

NICE SETUP !!! Only thing I would have done different would have mounted pump higher so there was less head and more power. Also there is little room to remove pump for servicing, a higher installation would have made that job easier. Otherwise perfect ! AJReef.html

TRY Power Compact lighting for now and when you buy your MH setup ,eventually, you'll have something to supplement some actinic lighting. Power compacts are cheaper than MH and will do the trick with enough wattage, about 3-4 watts a gallon. You can get a P.C. retrofit kit with ballast and bulb...

Anybody ever heard of these flourescent bulbs ? " Moon Tubes" - They are supposed to be true actinic and they simulate the "Moon" Light corals recieve at night. You are supposed to keep these lights on at night when your regular reef lights are off. Sounds cool ,but any benificial value other...

You have to upgrade at least to small Power Compact unit, very cheap under $200 for your tank. ( Small investment ) Unless you'll be stuck with feather dusters and fish and mabey some shrimp or crabs. Remember though that any Reef or semi-reef tank requires a nice balance of macro algae growth...

Get a little high rpm fan from radio shack meant for cooling a cpu. Adapt it as needed. Mabey a transformer will be needed. Then lace fan between tank top and lighting unit. And place those PC's as close as possible with a peice of glass or plexi over top of tank to stop splashing. The Lights...

I have a buddy who made a big 20 Gallon DIY Kalkwasser dumper as he calls it. He adds kalkwasser all day via a float switch in his sump. Any evaporation is filled automatically with Kalwasser. The "dumper" stirs the kalkwasser twice a day then lets it settle. During stirring he closes the float...

Thanks Guys, I appreciate all the help. I have a chart in the Delbeek & Sprung Book "The Reef Aquarium vol 1" that says 1 -32 w PC is equivilent to 3 - 24" Flourescent bulbs - does this make any sense ! The chart is calculated using ( K - color temp as I understand it and microwatts - wattage...

A reef book that actually has even a handful of the corals out there.

no, green star polyps , at the bottom of the tank center in top pic !

I have 2 - 250 W MH German 10,000k bulbs about 12 "'s above my 90 gal high reef with a home made hood hanging from the ceiling- no cover or canopy what so ever and it works fantastic ! I hang a peice of plastic siding to help keep glare from blinding people- Check my site out you can see what I...