Tuesday, March 27, 2007
As again, everytime I meddle with the tank, something falls apart. (Yes yes, you win, Yx) If you can remember, the last time I made my own lighting hood using plywood, I idiotically mis-calculated and ended up with 2 halves of a hood instead of the single piece I was thinking of. And the last time I meddled with the tank, the front half fell apart.
And guess what just happened?
The back half fell apart this time. After trying in vain to hammer and drill nails into the goddamned thing, I threw the entire load of tools aside and decided .. heck. I'm off to buy a lifetime's supply of L-brackets now, time to make a bullet-proof back half.
Had to meddle with the tank, since I'm in the midst of installing a new set of lights - the left lamp was 250W Radium while the right was 150W Iwasaki 20,000K which looked oddly lopsided, and in any case the Iwasaki is refusing to strike now. So I took a trip down to Reef Depot at Thomson Road and bought a new XM 20,000K bulb (Radiums were out of stock) and also an algae-scraper (another horror story, saving it for later). They only stock the IceCap e-ballasts, which way too extravagant for me ($300 for a bunch of metal??) so I made my way down to Janet's.
Phew, Janet saves the day! Got an Elbiru e-ballast for cheap, and bought a couple more supplies at the same time.
Wenky
4:19 PM
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