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·This isn't really a dart frog question, but I thought you guys may be able to help. I have an 18g via aqua reef tank that came with a 36 watt cf fixture.
About a month ago the lights started coming in intermitently(sp?), sometimes just the acentic and sometimes just the regular, or none at all. I thought this was just the bulbs, as they had been used for about two years, and I purchased some new ones. I put the new ones in and they seemed to work-for about one or two days. Then the same thing started happening. I thought, again, that I had some bad bulbs, and exchanged them. And again I have the same problems.
It seems that when I dissemble everything and take the bulbs out and then put them back, they will work for a little bit, but then they always stop.
I did have a ballast issue a year and a half ago, but I exchanged the ballast, and since the lights do work, when I first put them in, I don't think that the problem is with the ballast.
There has been some salt spray that gets on the light housing, but they are fully enclosed.
I just don't know how to proceed, and I don't want to have to buy a whole new set up.
Any ideas? Thougts?
About a month ago the lights started coming in intermitently(sp?), sometimes just the acentic and sometimes just the regular, or none at all. I thought this was just the bulbs, as they had been used for about two years, and I purchased some new ones. I put the new ones in and they seemed to work-for about one or two days. Then the same thing started happening. I thought, again, that I had some bad bulbs, and exchanged them. And again I have the same problems.
It seems that when I dissemble everything and take the bulbs out and then put them back, they will work for a little bit, but then they always stop.
I did have a ballast issue a year and a half ago, but I exchanged the ballast, and since the lights do work, when I first put them in, I don't think that the problem is with the ballast.
There has been some salt spray that gets on the light housing, but they are fully enclosed.
I just don't know how to proceed, and I don't want to have to buy a whole new set up.
Any ideas? Thougts?