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Looking to buy some ecoxotic LED stunner strips. Anybody have any suggestions or recommendations on which of the four colors to get? my tank already has 150w metal hallides (20K) and some actinic t5's. The corals are growing but my corals still aren't just 'popping' out at me....

thanks for any help

I can't think of a suitable title for my blog so I will write my 'inane scribblings of a lunatic' then think up a title. At present I have 2 small quarantine tanks and no display tank. I had to shut down my 4'x2'x2' due to moving to a flat with wooden floors. I will be moving again in the next few months hopefully to ground floor accommodation. Not only do I want a larger system again I'm disabled so stairs are a problem. A flat is what we Brits call an apartment. so, why am I on an American ...

I recently purchased a custom Marineland (Perfecto) 120g. This time, I decided to deviate from my norm, the painted black background, and try an interesting concept that I have seen posted in various reef forums. The purpose of the shadowbox is to have it back-lit behind the tank, and painted to give the illusion of depth in your tank, as in looking through the tank into the ocean. I've read threads on peoples different shadowbox creations, and took some info from different ones I saw, and created ...

First day of vacations, not feeling well, spent most of the day either at the bathroom or sleeping.... at night I was feeling a little better, so I decided to work on the Arduino sketch, try to finalize v1.0 of it. Testing was still needed, so I proceeded with the test generating sample light curves for the various day types. By day type I mean "clear day", "cloudy day of various intensities", "thunderstorm day", each defined by an Okta number from 0 to 8.
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Two weeks ago I had the impression my hammer coral (one ployp) was getting fatter.... well, today I am pretty sure it is splitting into two polyps! That might seem "so what?" to you, but feels very rewarding to me. It is the first stony coral in the tank that not only survived in my water and lighting but is also growing (had one Acan polpy that died, three Trumpet polyps that also died and another hammer polyp that got eaten by a rogue peppermint shrimp).

Must be a sign ...