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Width, front-to-back?

You guys have the Actinic, not the 50/50, correct?

Cool. Thanks,Ty!

Anybody have a picture or video of what this light fixture looks like without any other lights on? YouTube wasn't helpful. Looking to add some 'pop' and pondering this fixture vs actinic T5s.

Big shout-out to nori4dori for the awesome frag-pack! FYI, if you were considering buying his ASD Jawbreaker Monti frag and passed, you can start kicking yourself now. 😆

I posted this pic a couple of months ago, after the 1st incident.

I thought I'd share an interesting experience I've had with pods and newly-glued SPS frags. With the last couple of SPS frag packs I've purchased, I've had a lot of death within 24 hours. I chalked the 1st time it happened up to different tank parameters. With the 2nd pack, I lost 6 out of 10 overnight, with the remaining 4 on life support. Water testing showed no issues. Then, I remembered something I had observed previously. Whenever I glue new frags, the pods (big amphipods) are all over them after lights-out. Could they be attracted to the glue and, as a result, stressing the frags? I tested this theory last night, after I received another SPS pack. I put 8 newly-glued frags up high on a frag-rack instead of on the liverock. I also glued a couple of empty plugs to the rocks. Result? After light-out, the empty plugs were swarming with pods and the frags were clear. This morning, all frags are alive and looking great. Coincidence? Anecdotal evidence? Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think so.

Thanks!

Hi, everybody. My 135g reef has been on the decline for several years. My wife gave me an ultimatum in December: clean it up or shut it down. So, I started the clean-up just before Christmas and now I'm hooked once again. The tank only contains two tangs, which I've always kept fed. The rocks were covered in hair algae. After about a week of cleaning and new aquascaping, the tank looked much better, so I tested at that point with Salifert kits. Phosphates were at 0.5 (can't imagine what they were prior to clean-up). I decided to try NO3PO4-X and I have to say, I'm impressed. I haven't done any water changes since I started dosing over a week ago and phosphates are down to between 0.1 and 0.25 (Hannah checker is next on the order list). Algae is starting to peel itself off the back glass. Dosing is very simple, so I'll probably continue a maintenance dosing regiment going forward.