Little White Flies In Fish Tank

With new corals, fishes, and other invertebrates hitting the market on a regular basis, we are constantly tempted to add new animals to our systems. High tech protein skimmers, filters, and various additives often provide the hobbyist with a false sense of security, lulling us into believing that our system can handle an absurdly high biological load. Despite our best i

Sticking a couple of quarters under one corner of the tank to level it means you are concentrating much of that one ton on a small part of the bottom of your tank and it will certainly crack.

You can shim a tank between tank and stand but you must be very careful in order to avoid unnecessary stress on your tank bottom. Therefore, this is generally not recommended unless you are good at making large perfect wedges.

It is better to level you tank by shimming underneath the stand. Here again, you need to avoid concentrating one ton in just a few

T-5 indicates a lamp of 5/8 diameter; T8 means the lamp diameter is 8/8ths or 1; a T12 means 12/8ths or 1.5 inches in diameter. This may be followed by ballast requirements such as HO or VHO. Lamp Kelvin Temperature may be noted as 30 (or 3,000K), 65 (6,500K) and so on. Osram/Sylvania lamps often have D8 immediately preceding the color rating.

Example: URI FR30 T12

URI is the manufacturer; FR designates t

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