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yeah its for a 175 mogul socket....

Im going to purchase this HQI 400w PFO ballast & im wondering about the wiring. I currently have a pendant that holds a 175w bulb and i want to know if it would be easy to wire these two together(the ballast and the pendant)....im not too good with electrical stuff hehe...any advice would be...

would anyone happen to know if there is anywhere i can order some? Maybe a concentrated bag almost like the brine shrimp ones ?

sniffing a dead snail in the shell when i already knew it would stink like hell....and letting my boyfriend take care o my tank while i was away(oh gawd!)...

no effect on alk at all at least IME after adding the sand.

its a 50/50 bulb and it was listed as it being a real actinic instead of the "blue" CSL look and its supposed to have a purp/bluish hue but its more like white/blueish and looks more like a 10k im sure ZigZagZombie would agree. Heres the site to give you an idea of what im talking about... "so...

its a 50/50 bulb and it was listed as it being a real actinic instead of the "blue" CSL look and its supposed to have a purp/bluish hue but its more like white/blueish and looks more like a 10k im sure ZigZagZombie would agree. Heres the site to give you an idea of what im talking about... "so...

So basically all these bulbs are the same its just that some brands are modified to give out a different look?

has anyone ever had or seen this bulb?....i bought a 10k/actinic03 power compact bulb and the actinic part doesnt really look like an actinic...i dunno compared to the blue7100k i've seen it doesnt look as intense nor as blue looks more like a 10k...is this how its supposed to look like or did i...

U know the best overflow box is a hang on the back filter like the penguin biowheel for example. Just drill a hole the same size as the siphon tube below the filter compartment and you have yourself an overflow box that you dont have to worry about flooding because as the power goes out, the...

seaclone is the best skimmer ever HA!!

your Ph is higher at night thats weird? You can do a coral dip after you cut the bleached part off just to see if that helps. I dont know too much about infections of sps though...

Soft corals dont need any calcium....try iodine supplements....also leather corals are sometimes like that..they dont swell up for a while. Give it a little more time.

Use lots of activated carbon in a mesh bag and change the carbon every 48hrs....

how long has your tank been up, how long have u had the sps corals and what kind of lighting do you have? Whats your PH/alk? Have you properly acclimated the sps to the lighting? Is your temp too high? There's a lot of reasons why sps bleach(turn white). The best you can do for now is to...