AquaJohn

You might want to pm wysiwyg in the sponsor sec he was making a few tanks and taking custom orders. I priced one and it was VERY reasonable.

If you go to the sponsors section its a buisness that recently opened up and the grand opening is today.

wysiwyg is the first letter of each of the following words what you see is what you get and is a common word used to discribe a picture of an actual coral you are purchasing and not just a pic of the mother colony

Rca usualy has them in there fridge.

If you have not downloaded the unofficial guide please do so it gives step by step instructions and is a very good read.

http://reeftech.webs.com/

its free but if you find it useful they do take tips.

My tank is not big enough to hold all the frags it would take

Meh its not the supercharged z06

Its just something that was on my bucket list.

Now that I have had it a while its time to trade it on a ctx

If you closely read the club bylaws, if you have a 'vette you are precluded from winning any contests, because you have already won at life.. .

I know it sounds crazy but a large ziplock bag 3/4 full of tap water just hang it close to where you want to keep the flys away. Its an OOOOOLLLLLDDDDDD school thing that works for some or is it just an old wives tale .

definatly cheep to try tho.

if its a new marineland led it should be plug in and turn on if not return the defective unit for a working one. Thats the advantage of buying and not DIY

Hey dont knock all of us Cali transplants there are some cool people there just hard to find us :>

ok so touching the black probe to the ground and the red probe into the socket I got 122. On the canopy and lights with the black to ground and red touching in multiple areas the meter was at 0.

putting the red pobe in the tank resulted in 2 so that should mean I am not gona nuke myself right

Also I did not get any tingles so I hope that the new grounds and replacing the burned out led fixed the leak.

None of the eq is DC I looked at the tags on them to make sure. I also made sure everyting was on even the heaters.

Thanks for the help

My internet was down all day so I did not get a chance to read the posts and try and fix the problem.

I do not think its in the tank itself I think its in the canopy. I have stone flooring and am usualy bare foot when working in the tank. After reading I may start slipping on some rubber boots before sticking my hand in lol.

So to test I take the multi meter and test the outlet the lights are plugged into I assume an open port on the power strip is good enough and I dont have to un plug the lights. Then leave the one probe on the ground and place the other probe against the metal canopy to see if there is a short ? then place the same probe into the water to see if there is a short in the tank some place.anything over 8v is bad.

I think I have or had some kind of voltage leak in my canopy. Its DIY all aluminum and holds several fans my led's and 2 48" t5's and misc other electrical dodads lol.

Some times I would get a tingle if my arm rubs the frame and my hand is in the water. Its not always and its not bad <yet> I am not even sure if its really a tingle or of its just from rubbing the metal but I want to be safe and not sorry.

This weekend I removed it from the tank to replace a led that went out and went over all the wires for nics or bad connections and did not find any.

Is there a way to test the monstrosity with a volt meter ? to see if there is in fact some extra voltage coming from something ?

I am not real worried about it nuking the tank its Isolated from that but I would prefer not to fry myself.

and if I find a leak is the best way to find to sorce to just plug in one thing at a time till it shows up and if so how do you fix it ?

As a safty I ran a few more wires to each section so I know its all connected to a ground now for sure and I have not felt the tingle after reinstalling to this AM.

Lol what good is a rubber 1 million dollar check gona do me

err well I duno you maby it would be good

05 Dark Blue Corvette

Not that anyone would ever be in Burnet LOL

just so you know right below the for sale section there is a WTB section

you do know that corals use alk to grow right they can use several DKH a day. Thats one of the reasons you need to add more to the tank its a good thing.

there are calculators out there to show how much buffer to use to raise it and you may have to do that daily or get pumps to dose it for you one of the joys of a growing tank.

Oh ya how many people knew they were talking about Shane before they posted the store name LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think what Shane was saying about sand is that crushed coral is a better substrate for your tank, When I was starting thats what he pushed on me. If I recall right it was something about the sand beds will solidify into a large solid brick where with crushed coral you can just use a stick to stir it up weekly and keep the "crud" suspended and let your filtration do its work.

I kind of thought well if you can stir crushed coral why not sand but I just smiled and said thanks for the info. He does have a wealth of info but its kind of like what my dad says take in what everyone says and use the good info and toss the rest .

And he is right about the internet in general you can basicly find strong cases for both sides of any argument. And alot of info out there is YEARS old and not the only way to do things anymore.

Anyways I still have a sand bed and all my criters like it. Also you don't get to have cool sand sifters if you dont have sand

what size tank were they on ? and do you feel they covered the length of it well ? How deep of a tank do you feel they would work on ?

ya he would like the looks of the fish in your tank too

He has been poked

I will poke him with a stick when he gets to work today.

Pm sent

I have a friend with a 72X20X26deep tank he wants to make into a fresh water fish and plant tank. He wants to do LED lights and I told him I did not think he needed the high dollar radions

What led's would work well for plants and fish on a tank that size and he is not a diy type so just wants to buy premade.

I liked the 20K after they had "broke in" for the first week or 2 they were more yellow than I liked.