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11-27-2003, 01:50 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: california
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What to do with a 3 gallon Eclipse?
I have a 3 gallon eclipse that has been running for about 6 months. It has about 3 lbs. of live rock and a crushed coral base and that is it. Does anyone know if there is a retrofit this small or have any lighting ideas? If not how about some ideas to make use of this little guy? 
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6 Gallon Nano reef
6 lbs. fiji live rock, Sand base, Green star Polyps, Button Polyps, Elagance coral Sun coral, Mushroom rock, Feather duster, Ricordeas
Fire shrimp, Maroon clown
Emeralad crab, Brittle Star
Red Flat Fromia Starfish?,
Sand Sifting cucumber,
Long tent. anneome,
flame coral, asort. zoes,
Yellow & Orange sponges
(3) Blue leg hermmit crabs
(2) Margarita snails
(3) Astrea snals
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11-27-2003, 09:02 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2003
Location: SAN DIEGO
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dude by 3-13 watt pc retros and mount them you could do 4-13 watt but would lose the ability to use the feeding door. Also your going to need a fan to keep things cool 40-60 mm. cheers- post pics
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11-27-2003, 10:30 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: california
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Thanks for the tip. I will get some photo asap
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6 Gallon Nano reef
6 lbs. fiji live rock, Sand base, Green star Polyps, Button Polyps, Elagance coral Sun coral, Mushroom rock, Feather duster, Ricordeas
Fire shrimp, Maroon clown
Emeralad crab, Brittle Star
Red Flat Fromia Starfish?,
Sand Sifting cucumber,
Long tent. anneome,
flame coral, asort. zoes,
Yellow & Orange sponges
(3) Blue leg hermmit crabs
(2) Margarita snails
(3) Astrea snals
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11-27-2003, 11:04 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: california
Posts: 21
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All the room I have is 10x4x2. All I can find is a single 13 watt pc.
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6 Gallon Nano reef
6 lbs. fiji live rock, Sand base, Green star Polyps, Button Polyps, Elagance coral Sun coral, Mushroom rock, Feather duster, Ricordeas
Fire shrimp, Maroon clown
Emeralad crab, Brittle Star
Red Flat Fromia Starfish?,
Sand Sifting cucumber,
Long tent. anneome,
flame coral, asort. zoes,
Yellow & Orange sponges
(3) Blue leg hermmit crabs
(2) Margarita snails
(3) Astrea snals
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11-27-2003, 11:27 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2003
Location: SAN DIEGO
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where in cali are you? my brother has the eclipse 3 w/4-13 watters and he's using a aq200 for circulation.
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11-27-2003, 01:13 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Marietta/Auburn
Posts: 180
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Hey, I am having the same issue, but I found this site and it has every type of lighting imaginable. Try www.hellolights.com, I found a corallife 18 watt setup. It includes an 8 watt of each spectrum all fit into a custom enclosure. Both Sprayin70 and I are running bow 2.5s and I think that this will work great. |
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11-27-2003, 03:24 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: california
Posts: 21
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I am in nor cal. Where did your brother get his lights?
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6 Gallon Nano reef
6 lbs. fiji live rock, Sand base, Green star Polyps, Button Polyps, Elagance coral Sun coral, Mushroom rock, Feather duster, Ricordeas
Fire shrimp, Maroon clown
Emeralad crab, Brittle Star
Red Flat Fromia Starfish?,
Sand Sifting cucumber,
Long tent. anneome,
flame coral, asort. zoes,
Yellow & Orange sponges
(3) Blue leg hermmit crabs
(2) Margarita snails
(3) Astrea snals
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11-27-2003, 03:32 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: california
Posts: 21
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Whitten thanks for the link.
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6 Gallon Nano reef
6 lbs. fiji live rock, Sand base, Green star Polyps, Button Polyps, Elagance coral Sun coral, Mushroom rock, Feather duster, Ricordeas
Fire shrimp, Maroon clown
Emeralad crab, Brittle Star
Red Flat Fromia Starfish?,
Sand Sifting cucumber,
Long tent. anneome,
flame coral, asort. zoes,
Yellow & Orange sponges
(3) Blue leg hermmit crabs
(2) Margarita snails
(3) Astrea snals
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11-27-2003, 07:32 PM
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lazy reefer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: MI, clarkston
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cal has a place close to you called http://petsupplyliquidator.com/
and they are nice and they can build custom hoods.
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12-24-2003, 12:51 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2003
Location: SAN DIEGO
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he bought the ballast from homedepot for $3.50 each, made his own sockets from molex connectors $.70, and used zip tie mounts for bulb mounts $2.00 for 4. bought the bulbs and walla-
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12-24-2003, 02:15 PM
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Heterandria Formosa
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Bloomington, MN
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Here is a retro kit, that comes as a 9 or 13 watts setup. I think these might be the only size that will fit in a 3 gallon eclipse setup, but then again, i could be wrong This is from www.hellolights.com
jim
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01-08-2004, 02:51 PM
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Summer's Daddy
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Lawrenceville, Ga in a van down by the river
Posts: 2,674
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I had to use 2 13 watters and just keep shrooms and softies in my eclipse.
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01-08-2004, 03:32 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: california
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I bought the 13 watt set up from hellolights. I got a little crazy with the silicon trying to seal it up, so i hope it works.
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6 Gallon Nano reef
6 lbs. fiji live rock, Sand base, Green star Polyps, Button Polyps, Elagance coral Sun coral, Mushroom rock, Feather duster, Ricordeas
Fire shrimp, Maroon clown
Emeralad crab, Brittle Star
Red Flat Fromia Starfish?,
Sand Sifting cucumber,
Long tent. anneome,
flame coral, asort. zoes,
Yellow & Orange sponges
(3) Blue leg hermmit crabs
(2) Margarita snails
(3) Astrea snals
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