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I figured the light wouldn't handle SPS but wanted to be sure. My old fixture on my 50 was a t5/halide combo and it did well, guess ill have to put in some time reading on the latest and greatest to see whats the LED's have to offer.

I lost my tank years ago during hurricane Sandy, never rebuilt it with a pending marriage and moving at that time. Years later I have some time again and have been researching and found the Fluval evo 13.5 the youtube reviewers seem to like it, and you can add the purpose built protein skimmer into the overflow area. Having never owned fluval equipment I wanted to get anyone who has experience with this tanks opinions on how well it runs and especially on the light situation. It comes with LEDs at 14k and i think it might be ok for some zoas and other softies but I was hoping to do some LPS and eventually SPS in the tank as well. I guess if i need to remove the pretty hood and get a new light eventually not a big deal but being out of the hobby for so long LEDs are something i know diddly about.

So during the power outage I lost most of my contents of my 55gal reef. I sold most everything off but still had an rbta, a piece of singularia and some random zoa/ricordea shrooms. I had an evolve 8gal sitting on my desk at work that i intended to do a low light planted tank in but brought it home and made a nano tank out of it while i tore down my big tank. Now i find my self needing some kind of a stronger light fixture to clip onto this tank to support some life that rbta is not looking good but i have not found a buy for it yet and dont want it to die. does anyone have a recommended light that would work but wont break the bank? Or maybe someone local who is good with LEDS and could take the current led fixture and add some some hoped up bulbs to make it acceptable?

I just saw some of the traps i had a few minutes so i was doing some reading on them. Btw i have not put that ballast in so i may call you for some guidance as saturday when i finally get a chance to tear apart my fixture.

I was in my kitchen last night an looked out to my tank and saw something out of place as i approached i got close enough to see a bristleworm very thin maybe 4inch exposed out of a rock crevice. I have no experience with them, he retracted back in before i could get a pic for an ID. It was very slender smaller around than your average drinking straw, pale in color with the tiny tufts of bristles. I have never seen him before until last night, i know they can cause damage. Any advice on what if any action i should take toward removal ?

When i was running T5s as my light source my coraline on my rocks spread and encrusted everywhere, i had red, 2 shades of purple and green all over my rock. Since i have switched to MH system my coraline has bleached. Now only near the bottom of the tank and some at the top still have nice color. I assume the MH's are maybe to much for if? i still do my calcium, and trace elements etc like always. Everything else esp my lps, sps and zoas are spreading and growing like crazy.

I will accept that as my Bday present on Feb 8th.

Thanks for the info everyone, i will know in next week or two if they are going to give me the go ahead. If they do i will be going after a min 75gal pref 100+ depending on what they give me to work with price and space wise.

My work is expanding and remodeling our lobby and my self and some others suggested a large tank for the reception area. I can set it up my self from scratch but i do not know if they are going to want to have a empty tank with rock sitting there curing for months. So i was wondering if there was a place that has rock and sand that is cured in tanks and ready to go so that when the systems is set up with in a week or two there could be live stock added. Alternatively if there is a reputable retailer or service provider who does this commercially that is another option. Thanks for any input or ideas. TJ

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Yea i replaced both bulbs with no results, i opened up the light it takes a workhorse 5 ballast. I am going to call blue ribbon today and see if they have any. I have a dual t5 set up at the house that was my old light system but i dont want to scavenge a perfectly good light set up.

I have not checked the bulbs, but for both of them to die at the exact same time sounded fishy (lol) to me. Which is why i was thinking ballast. I have 2 t5s i can toss in tonight to test that i know work from my other fixture just to make sure.

Unfortunately i am located near Hyattsville, MD. A long ways off from Gainesville Va. I do plan to make a trip to woodbridge this sunday probably to see my dad and pick up a corral that i have on hold from a member if he is available so i could bring the system with me.

Hi All, I have a 2x 250w MH lighting system with 2x t5 built in from aquatinics. I got this from steveoutlaw and he recommended i post up on here for some help. About 2 weeks ago i came down stairs and i noticed the hue of my tank was not as it should be, upon further inspection i found both t5 bulbs which hold my atinics to be doa. I am not great with electronic repair i would guess that it is a ballast issue as they both died at once but i am not sure. Is their anyone who is good with electronics that i could take this to or have look at on the forums? Thanks. TJ

I fraged my bigger rock on the right and they seem to be ok for now, and i trashed both rocks.

Is it feasible to put the rock with them in the corner away from everything else and be safe? Or would this require complete annihilation?

Hi All, I recently purchased a nice MH lighting set up from Steveoutlaw ( it works awesome), as a result i have some clove polyps that are spreading like wild fire in about 3 weeks to a month they have spread from a nickel sized colony on one of my rocks to covering about 3inches and are starting to smother out other items i have on the rock (zoas, mushroom, etc all low lying softies) and i dont want them to die. Is it safe to pull the rock out and scrape the cloves off the rock, or should i attempt to relocate all of these small colonys it is not a large rock maybe slightly larger than a baseball around and 4" long but it has alot of stuff on it from the previous owner. You can see the clove palys on the front middle rock, when i cleaned the tank that rock was moved a lil closer to the rock on the right which is the one where they are spreading so quickly. Most of the zoas on the front of the rock are closed in the pic as it was right after i turned on the lights, the pic was taken about 2 days before i put the new lighting system on the tank so it doesnt show the clove coverage but they have covered the whole front 1/3 of the rock on the right in a thick blanket.

i have a 55 gal standard tank. I was not so much concerned about clouding as i was possible adverse affects of new live sand being introduced and spiking numbers.

Hi All, I have been battling some cyano lately and i have been syphoning it out of my tank with a tube into a bucket. I have lost some sand and was wondering what the best way was to reintroduce some new sand to fill my sand bed back out with out shocking the system? Could i add like a cup or two every week ? Thanks.

Well everything seems to be returning to normal in my tank, i still am seeing some stuff on the rocks but i am cleaning them off with tooth brush and turkey baster , although when i was siphoning up cyano i came with in about 3 inches of my fav ricordea mushroom that had recently split in two and it went flying into my hose and was mangled pretty badly.

Ok, i went to the store and found some bags of activated carbon meant for a canister filter and rigged it up to sit in my pre filter spot before my carbon filter so i have an extra 200grams of carbon in the tank that it has to filter through for now. I also bought a ph buffer and added some to the tank and scraped all the cyano out of the tank that was visible taking part of the sand bed with it to try to get as much as possible. I will let it rest for a few days and do a test and see where i am, and hope everything turns out well.

Awesome, i appreciate the info. This is my first tank and i feel like i had been lucky so far that nothing strange has happened. Thankfully this doesnt seem to be to bad and i can remedy it with some changes to water and siphoning and a reactor. Any recommendations on a better hang on skimmer? i was looking at CPR and a few others.

The ammonia was only slightly up, the nitrate and trite were showing the complete bottom of the scale on my test kit. I figured the skimmer was not the best, could i add carbon to my prefilter? or maybe double up the filter cartridges. i do a 5 to 10 gallon change every week, depending on how much time i have to make ro water my unit is only a 50gpd so it takes a lil while and my weekends are fairly busy. and my tank is a reef, 70lbs live rock, assorted zoas, torch corals, green star polyps some ricordea and regular mush rooms etc. and 1 tang and 2 clowns. 55 gallons total.

I dont have a very complicated set up, i have a seaclone 100 skimmer and an emperor 400 bio wheel on my tank for filtration. i change the filter cartridge every week or two, and i have a foam pre filter. i did recently add fish to the tank, i have 2 clowns and a yellow tang. could it be that i over fed which caused it to show up? My lights are not quite 6 months old, t5's 10k day light and a 6.5k actinic i think it was. As far as carbon goes the only carbon i know of is in my filter cartridges. Is there any way to get rid of the cyano?