Recent content by plectastic

Cheers bud. Went for some more T5's in the end. Has helped no end. Not ready for LEDs yet!

Mmm interesting. Thanks guys.

Does it? Where did you read that?

I could fit reflectors quite easily tbh. The problem is the space is adequate length wise no doubt but it's fouls massively on the width!

Hi, I have a 300 litre marine tank with the original heavy duty wooden top on it. Looks like this:       It came with 2 far too short T5 bulbs and a Arcadia ballast. I've got 1 white and 1 blue running but it's not enough.   Initially I thought about more T5 lights, another ballast or 2 etc...

Yeah sure.    I'll probably go for a medium budget T5 twin controller. Not a bloody Hagen Glo this time though.   If the ballast unit doesn't fit in the space I'll probably mount it on/in the back of the cabinet and run the wires up into the original bulb fittings (which I already ripped out)  ...

The problem I see with many of them are the fan units stuck on the top. I'd need to mount it to the underside of a big wooden lid. Hmmm. Ideas?

Thanks for that mate.   Well I decided to get a hagen glo T8 twin ballast set and eneded up ripping out the original T8 fittings and all wiring. All was ok apart from it not fitting in the space very well but it has just stopped working. Pretty gutted.   I shall try replacing the whole thing...

Can you mount any of these on the underside of a canopy rather than hanging? Probably 6"+ clearance before water.

Should make a thread about these GLO ballasts. Mine went pop after 2 weeks for no reason.

Nah. They're not hard to maintain. Had my 50L running for a year now. Just always get good advice from LFS, the best salt pre mix, and put a bigger external on than you need loaded with live rock, Purigen, phosguard. Never had any problems.

Haha sorry. Yep I'm not that stupid thankfully. Fuse changed! Will try new bulbs.

Soooo I may have overflowed my tank slightly when doing a WC!   Anyway, it was fine surprisingly and then it died the next day.   I've cleaned and dried it all out, cleaned up all the contacts etc but no joy.   I then bought 2 new specific starters online for it but still dead.   I don't know...

That's because they're going down the pan sadly.

Be careful, my LFS (www.fish-fish-fish.com) really doesn't rate these. You really get what you pay for with externals.