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Old 11-20-2008, 10:50 PM
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ahah who gave the 3 star??
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Old 11-21-2008, 12:32 AM
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ahah who gave the 3 star??
haha I think someone had to 1 star cause it was 5 stars before and it takes the average.
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Old 11-22-2008, 12:30 AM
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Well pulled out the small heater since it wasnt keeping the temp or even close to were i wanted it. I placed in a mini 100Watt heater I had kicking around. I came home from work and the temp was still room temp. The light was on and everything so i cranked it up to 90 and came back into the room an hour or so later to find that the tank temp was still sitting at 70... I then pulled the heater out and to find that the element was shot since i was holding it and the indicator light was on but it was producing zero heat. I then went back to the endless pile of used equipment I have to find another heater. with no luck on finding another small heater I was forced into placeing a full size 100watt heater in the tank well the water level in the back of the tank was right on the min line for the heater. I awoke this morning to find the tank at 87..... so me being cheep (lol) screwed me once again... So i brought the water level up in the rear chamber now by about half an inch thus covering the thermostat ( i think ) so the temp is holding steady at 79. if it works I will have to look the value up of the heater i know on jl and use 3/4 of but I want to see if this works.

another flaw I have had now is that I extended the wires on the lightbulb so I could hide them through the back of the stand. But when i went to fire the bulb it would just flicker. I have no put them back to the standard length and she fires everytime Im thinking that the amps were dropping by to much.
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Old 11-22-2008, 12:34 AM
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Any recent pics? I'm really interested to see how the HID's work for lighting.
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Old 11-22-2008, 04:54 AM
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I will just went and got a desktop since my laptop found a new home.......... so i now have to by a card reader since i was sure to take my camara with me when i left the house. i will try to have pics up by the end of the weekend
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Old 11-22-2008, 10:51 PM
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I have read that price increas thread so please correct me if im wrong I have 390.00 to play with now !! ????

whats the set price on a frag of a single head hammer / frogspawn and a two headed one???
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Old 11-22-2008, 10:53 PM
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to be exact $395.45
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Old 11-22-2008, 10:54 PM
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whats the set price on a frag of a single head hammer / frogspawn and a two headed one???

Hammer, torch, frogspawn, Bubble coral.. stuff will long polyps that reach out:
- $15 Small <3" (Skeleton @ Widest part)
- $20 Large >3" (Skeleton @ widest part)

It goes my size, not number of heads I believe.
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Old 11-23-2008, 02:04 AM
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I have read that price increas thread so please correct me if im wrong I have 390.00 to play with now !! ????

whats the set price on a frag of a single head hammer / frogspawn and a two headed one???
$95.45 added to the original 5.5 budget.
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Old 11-23-2008, 02:10 AM
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So..........how about those H.I.D's? I found a 110v version and am eagerly waiting to hear about how yours work out for you
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