Recent content by thomshap

I converted mine as we got fed up with the noise of the fans in the hood, I put one all white and one all blue where the existing T5s were - very quick and simple job, but insufficient (partly because they are tucked up inside the hood so not benefiting from the spread) so I put another all...

you are nearly there, where you put 'mb' paste in the link to the pictures, so (without the stars!!)

I'm thinking of an anemone for my 34g tank that is nearly a year old but lit with 3 x Aquaray LEDs (that provide enough light for all my corals including a frogspawn). I keep reading that they need strong lighting, yet in the wild I have rarely seen them above 60 feet and often down at nearly...

I put my CP-E in a Seachem media bag which helped.

For sure, I just swapped out all my halogen spots for 5w LEDs and they are fantastic, give off a very nice light without messing with your eyes like the regular low energy ones do. I've been running just Aquarays for a couple of months now without any side effects, maybe you just need either...

I changed mine, mainly because the stock skimmer is so noisy, it's also nice to have some room in the back for other bits and pieces.

Charterhouse are at Waltham Cross, not too far.

I too went for the 130d because of it's looks, even though I know I would end up swapping out most of the bits, however if I went bigger I'd go custom, the 250 is just too expensive to be throwing bits out, for the money it would have to be 100% perfect in every way.

In the UK there seems a completely different attitude towards UV for removing ws and much support for it. For most of us without unlimited resources and limited space an outbreak of whitespot is the end of the world, fitting UV as a precaution helps enormously.

I nipped into my LFS today to get a bit of coral and a couple of cardinals I'd seen earlier in the week. In one tank we noticed a regal tang with a bad case of whitespot (I know they are prone to this) and looking pretty unhealthy but was sharing it's tank with other healthy fish, we then...

We must get better stuff over here then ;)

My tank was a clear as a bell then I bought a tub of bad RedSea Coral Pro and in one water change it went cloudy, I then tried everything to mix a clear bucket and failed - seems I had a bad tub that moisture had got to and my leather corals hated it. I now use Seachem Reef Salt and not had a...

I just found this thread: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/red-sea-max-owners-club/55084-rsm-130d-4-aquarays-all-done.html Some brilliant info there.

If introduce a gobi then don't have any rock lying just on sand, support it all with something, I used small pieces or 2" plastic waste pipe, and lots of them. I had to remove all my rock bit by bit and support it all as the gobi was tunneling under everything, better to do it now rather than...

No, at the moment I have 2 Aquarays that sit where the tubes were, but I have ordered a third which I will fit either on the flap or on the back of the hood - I think if had bought a combination with more white LEDs then I could have got away with just two strips, but I quite like the ability to...