Hello everyone.... Replaced my T5's (had 4 over my tank) I had over my tank... with Corallife (4)T5 HO w/ lunar lights just looking for how long I should run the lights after I have them up to "full time use" right now I have them at 2 hours each day only had the light for a few days. My tank has mostly LPS and softyies and 2 SPS corals. Thanks for the info. Chris
I've had this coral for about 3 months and it was doing great. I fragged a piece off and it was doing good in my tank too. In the lastfew days I've noticed that it started to slump over and it's stopped opening up. This morning I found it like this. I tested my water and everything is fine; pH is within range, ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0, nitrate close to none, and phosphate is 0. The salinity is also within range though I've never really had problems with that. There is some discoloration happening ...
On February 6th of this year, I started running 2 liters of Vertex biopellets in my system, and over that 7.5 month period I was able to maintain zero nitrate and zero phosphate. Granted, my system has a DSB, live rock, a skimmer and a refugium, but so did my 280g reef. I've not had to dose Phosphate Control nor use GFO once with the new tank. And no vodka dosing either. I've only done a handful of water changes in that time. Maybe 600g, possibly. Two weeks ago, I hooked up a ...
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