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Welcome to 3reef! What are your livestock plans?
Not at all! Supposedly the reef only gets about 9 total hours of "useable" light each day. Regardless, people have been maintaining reef aquariums...
Do not try to hit a certain #; instead aim to maintain one. Around 8.1 or 8.2 is still perfectly acceptable!
I wouldn't think barebottom would stress it out. What are the details of the tank (size, equipment, parameters, live rock, places to hide, etc)? Or...
Agreed, I don't think that is too much flow. I have (2) Koralia 450s in my 28 nano along with the return pumps (around 250 GPH). With the way my...
Wish you the best of luck. There are a number of fish who will hide for the first few days or even a week+. My sand sifting goby hid under a rock for...
Odd way to phrase that, but most run between 10-12 total hours of lighting, including just actinics.
+karma for this :)
Just curious, what part of water quality is "bad" when not pulsing? Higher nitrates, lower calc, mag and/or alk? Just curious as like I said I had it...
Yes, sounds like diatoms. From what I have read, they need lighting so that may be the only spot you will see them. Unfortunately, with such a small...
Thanks! We were amazed to find such a cutey buried under all that snow :cheesy: And yes, VERY thankful we did not lose power. I have a generator,...
Well good stuff, I will be following along to see your growth with the lights. Unfortunately LPS growth can easily vary by how much they are fed. I...
I have had a RG in my 55 for 7 months now. As expected, he spends most of the day hanging out in one place or another (sideways behind the overflow,...
+1 As long as the heads stay open, I would not be concerned. If they are staying closed, or even partially closed, then yes I would start to be...
I am going to order a retrofit kit for my JBJ 28 CF Quad, but would like some help on picking color combo and which should be on what driver. The...
I run a check valve on my return line as well. They are not a waste, however they should only be used when you know that if they do fail, it will not...
Sorry to hear about the Flame Angel. I have had terrible luck with them. I have tried 3 different times with them, and all 3 never made it out of my...
Indeed; in that case we are 100% in agreement ;D And for skimmers, I can not help here besides saying you are going to need a "big" one :) There...
Pictures so we can better understand?
On my 55 I have (2) 1050s and (2) 750s, all controlled by my Reef Angel's built in wavemaker. Lots of flow obviously! I would say if you do go with...
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