Recent content by lbonser

really i figured they would have used stainless or some other non rusting metal in the screws I will have to try that next time. since i had power strips and timers it was not possible to keep the "neat " appearence of the self contained unit, so i just put the ballast in the drawer on the...

I use two 36 watt cfl , but I put the ballast external with the timers etc my biggest issue was screwing the cover back over the bulbs arrrrgghhh i dropped the screw about a dozen times Leop

I got one of those the cubes a few weeks back what light did you shoe horn in there?

hmmm my nano cost lets see 89 + shipping (I think we bought em from the same guy) had spare heater, power head, timer, all in a bucket in my garage sand and rock from my existing tanks mushrooms and polyps from my existing reef total cost about 115 I now have a mini reef in my office...

I recently moved and picked up a larger tank, I have a lot of white specs on the glass of the tank.... not coepopods... under magnification, they have small tentacles, I was wondering if that was a free floating stage of coral or tube worms that settled on the glass? or something more...

I have recently upgraded from a 29 reef where I used 3 timers and 4 powerheads to generate random current ( worked well) to a 65 gallon where I installed a red sea wave maker. On the 29, I knew that each of the powerheads ran for 25% of the day. Does any one know where the specs for the red...