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My First Marine Tank

Started by Bowdy, May 24 2012 10:43 PM

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#21 dazzabozza

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 10:31 PM

Nice lil money pit u got going there

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#22 Bowdy

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 10:35 PM

hehe cheers dazz

hey riggs i put the original tube back in because the new one was to blue and i hate blue lights

would plant light tubes work as well i just want white light that will grow corals ect.
cheers

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#23 dazzabozza

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 10:41 PM

Good reading here re: actinic (blue) lights - http://www.internati.......ost&p=24855

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#24 Mattymak

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Posted 31 May 2012 - 12:00 AM

Tanks looking good man

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#25 Bowdy

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 09:02 AM

Cheers Matty.

The light tube in it is 18W 10000K half white half actinic blue. I bought a 24W marine aqua one but both tubes are blue so I have to look for a 24W half white half blue tube.

These are the tubes that fit it.

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#26 Mattymak

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 09:19 AM

No worries mate (:

I'm actually thinking of starting a small one like yourself but worried I'll fail haha

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#27 Krystal

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 09:26 AM

If its an 18w ballast in the light unit (it will be if the stock globe that came with it is 18w) then you cant use those 24w globes. The ballasts are electronic and will not handle that......jus saying

We can get you 18w power compact globes that are 50actinic/50white.....the same combo I used to have in my setup.

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#28 garlic shrimp

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Posted 03 June 2012 - 10:33 AM

Nice set up Bowdy

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#29 Conda

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 03:32 PM

your xenia looks a bit sad!

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#30 Bowdy

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 05:13 PM

Ye the flow was a bit high where I had it. Now it's huge and looking awesome.

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#31 MilkyJoe

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 05:16 PM

Great looking tank bowdy! Hows the puffer doing with the tank size, is he as big as he'll grow?

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#32 Conda

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Posted 06 June 2012 - 07:42 PM

QUOTE (Bowdy @ Jun 5 2012, 05:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ye the flow was a bit high where I had it. Now it's huge and looking awesome.

thats great you got a picture ?.....

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#33 Bowdy

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Posted 06 June 2012 - 08:02 PM

the puffer is doing great mate getting around loving life.

il get a pic up for you soon blade

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#34 Bowdy

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Posted 07 June 2012 - 02:55 PM

Update guys.

Cheers for looking.

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#35 Conda

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Posted 07 June 2012 - 04:03 PM

sweet!

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#36 Neakit

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Posted 16 June 2012 - 11:31 AM

ok Ive just come back from the mines and im reading this, Please SLOW DOWN. For your pockets sake and for the sake of the inhabitants. But other than that nice also live rock doesnt need light to stay live. Its live because of the things that live on it and in it.

Light spectrums, you can quite successfully grow coral under 6500K globes, the reason people use atinic globes is purely for looks, The coral doesnt need atinic light there is enough in the spectrum of a normal globe.