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Ha! Your early years were pretty fun too....;)
Mine are VHO and I burn them 16 hrs a day so I get by with only running my MH's 7 1/2 hours. That is about a 1/3 longer then most people burn the...
I use Outlook every day so I set a reminder every year for the MH's and every 6 months for the actinics. Only way this old brain can remember...
Each is different but I never turned any lights on until week 8 and then I only burned the actinics. Then week 11 or 12 I started buring the MH's for...
Welcome to 3reef. I am surprised you have time to post on here with all of those tanks to keep up with. ;D
Keep them off for a few weeks.
Just take it slow and turn the lights off if you have them on. That is only adding fuel to algae right now.
Does anyone use any type of Fluidized Sand Filters for their tanks? I have a small one but have been pondering making a larger one. Anyone have any...
Take it slow and try and quit testing the waters so you can dump livestock in it. I let my tank cycle for 12 weeks...yep you read that correctly 12...
You would probably push water out the other side of the tank. ;D
So does a 1k tank...:P That looks like it will work great.
Thats not fair, I want your SPS's. :P I feel segrated now...;)
Let us know how things go. :)
I use Outlook everyday so I just set a reminder every year for the MH's and every 6 months for the actinics since I burn them 16 hr a day.
Cyano break out is caused by lack of water flow in certain areas in the tank.
That is very true. Most people will just go to the LFS and buy on impulse and bring home a fish they know nothing about or have an aquarium suitable...
You can have a 200g sump if you want, it will just give you more water volume. The one thing you need to keep in mind is what ever size you go with...
But it works and didn't cost that much to build. ;D
Well at least you didn't cook the hole tank. Thanks for keeping us informed so we can watch out ourselfs.
He had quite a few, the smalles being on the back of a 180g being the length of the tank and the dump tray was about 10 to 12" wide. Now the ones in...
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