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Just though I would document my little betta setup I just... set up. It is a Red Sea Candy Combo that I had sitting around. I put a thin layer of soil under a thin layer of small gravel. I planted a nice healthy Anubias barteri var. nana. I will be picking up a little bit of duckweed...

:opps ... I should have read the whole thing. Still, those lamps are not going to put out much usable light. I say this for a couple of reasons... one, they are only 8 watts each. two, they do not have effective reflection to get the other half of the ligh down into the tank. Three, they...

could it be allelopathy between the separate colonies? Jesse

There is no way that those are T5 lamps... maybe they meant T8. Those things are pretty beefy! Plus, 24 watt T5s are 22" long. Add to that thee lamps are no-name and probably dont have as high of output compared to higher-quality lamps. Personally, Id save another $20 or so and go with a JBJ...

They wont get lonely. If I recall they should also be housed in large tank... how big is your tank? And if your tank is less than a couple of months old, let it just run its course. You will be amazed at want can happen when you just allow time to do its thing. HTH, Jesse

Maybe a bristleworm?? :welcome to nanotank.com! Jesse

WOW! :shock: Nice additions John! I saw some pictures of the Dr. F&S thing and it looked amazing. Jesse

Mercury vapor and HPS (high pressure sodium) are not going to give off the proper spectrum and their ballasts wont work with MH lamps. I would check out illuming.com for some good quality MH retros. I have a 70 watt illuming retro that I can sell you if you would like. It comes with a 3 month...

Sounds good! If you wanted to spraypaint the casing you can use the high heat spraypaint designed for barbeques and such. Jesse