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01-12-2008, 08:11 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 45
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|  Don't forget to change those bulbs
Just changed my 110W VHO Super Actinics. WOW!!!  Can really see the difference. The spectrum shifts over the course of about 6 months so I add that to my scheduled maintenance. I change my Halides for the same reson about once a year.
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180 Gallon Reef, 150 lbs of LR and 4" LS. 4-175w 10k MH. 8-110 W actinic VHO, 2 Wave2K, LifeReef Skimmer . A 90 gal sump, Top-Off. 2Mag 9.5 return, Life Reef CR LCR-1. 1 Cin Clown, Bub coral, Xenia, Purp Tang, Yellow Tang, Pogoda, 4 Gobies, Niger Trigger, Angel, Brittle Star | 
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01-12-2008, 08:12 AM
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| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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my old compact fixture had old bulbs also. I had cyano eating the tank alive........now with halides, i have none  _________  | |
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01-12-2008, 08:13 AM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Great reminder dador.
Thanks 
Matter of fact I just ordered replacements for my fixture this morning. | |
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01-12-2008, 08:16 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Don't forget to adjust light period back significantly after changeing to new bulbs.
I did not do enough a couple of months ago, and my anemones bleached out. Still not recovered.  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") | |
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01-12-2008, 08:22 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NC Age: 24
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yea good call man i just ordered mine thats for the reminder!!!!!!!!
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24gal nano, xenia, green plate, orange zoos, orange spot gobie, 4 turbos, 4 scarlets
New tank 150 gal show tank, hippo tang, yellow tang, snowflake eel, 2 clarks, cardnial, toby puffer, dwarf loin, anemone, starry blenny, 4 blue chromis....im sure i left someone out.... | |
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01-12-2008, 09:02 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007
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That's for sure. It does make a big difference..... | |
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01-15-2008, 06:45 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Age: 45
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Thanks Omard! Good reminder! | |
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01-15-2008, 06:50 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
Posts: 4,069
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It is a big difference.What I do when I change my bulbs is I write the date that I changed it on the new bulb. _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew  | 
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01-15-2008, 06:55 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 3,284
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_________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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01-15-2008, 07:04 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
Posts: 1,158
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Believe me, I can't remember what I had for dinner last night. LOL...I bulb changes on my calendar in my iphone...There would be no way I would remember otherwise..  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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