Tank fun lately

So early december my powerhead went out in my 12 gallon tank, this is followed by my metal halide dying in my 24 gallon, noticed it seemed bluer the week previous and got the point where it just shut off as soon as the bulb lit up completely. Ballast? Don't know but I didn't pay much for the light and didn't really want to put more into it. We planned to just hang the panaroma fixture over it, it's been lighting my freshwater tank until now. Hanging won't work. Moving the tank not an option. So instead we ripped apart both fixtures and slapped the modules onto the sunpod. I bought a blue/purple modules to go with the blue/whites we had so it wasn't so white, couldn't fit the one blue/white on there but oh well. Now last night I realize one of my freshwater tanks heaters is way too warm and the other is dead. Time to buy more fish stuff again...

Things have finally stopped dying off in the tank which is good but still pretty cautious about keeping an eye on it, need to restock some items but not really sure about the led lights or how they will do yet. Tank looks empty.

Ghetto panaroma setup lol

That thing could win a ghetto award if I knew anywhere that had such a thing! LOL

Sorry about the troubles and I hope things turn around for ya soon!

Hey Cami have you tried room temp tanks? I have had so many heater problems. So my Bio cube I just unplugged the heater. Thermometer shows 68 degrees, (we keep our home cool) The clowns, anemone, goby, 6 line are all well and thriving. Many oceans, heck even the gulf of Mexico get to 60 in the winter. So far so chilly good. (Been a year now since I unplugged) It got mid 70's last summer.

Been there done that. I just lost two of the multilight led big bulbs, the ones that run $120. Stands just tipped over and sploosh!. Fortunately I was home and managed to leap up and jerk them out. I've lost so much stuff and livestock to operator error and such.
Great looking light, maybe we can have you teach us how to "rig" lights.

Nick, I've not done a room temp tank. I think our temperature would swing too much for that.

Goingpostal, how are things going now? How is your diy light working for ya?

Hope that light does good for you!

Light is doing ok, one went out for a bit but bad wiring on James' part so it's back up and running. The change in spectrum seems to have caused some lovely algae issues though and I would like it to be a bit more blue. Not sure how to fit another strip on there though. Jodi I know you had stunners, do they show up well along the stronger ones? Debating if I should invest in a more expensive strip or the stunners, I don't know if more light is needed really but would like more blue tint.

The stunners, honestly... sucked. They didn't add any actual light

Ok well that's what I needed to know lol, don't want to waste my money. I bought the 3 cord adapter so I can potentially add 2 more if I can figure out how to place them on it.

Yeah. They were great for sunup/sun down, but they just didn't give off enough light to effect the visual colors. Although they helped a little bit, just not nearly enough