Opinion/Finger pointing!
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Sorry, but no. It's a problem we've all had at one point in time, and ranges from "What do you mean this isn't a good skimmer?" to "Huh? That cute little black and white spotted panther grouper gets to be HOW big?"
It sucks.
Sorry, but no. It's a problem we've all had at one point in time, and ranges from "What do you mean this isn't a good skimmer?" to "Huh? That cute little black and white spotted panther grouper gets to be HOW big?"
It sucks.
When you recommend 4W per gallon, do you only count the actinic? or do you count the 10.000k plus the actinic total watts?
As I mentioned, I have two 65 watt 10,000K and two 65 watt True Actinic, so that would total 260watts or 3.46w per gallon wich is pretty close to 4w like you recommend.
Pretty awesome of everyone to answer as quick as you do, thank you!
Nick
As I mentioned, I have two 65 watt 10,000K and two 65 watt True Actinic, so that would total 260watts or 3.46w per gallon wich is pretty close to 4w like you recommend.
Pretty awesome of everyone to answer as quick as you do, thank you!
Nick
Total lighting, but I prefer to have only 30% of the total lighting actinic--the brighter lights are more beneficial to photosynthetics, IMO. 4WPG is still a bare minimum--I had xenia that would live, but seldom pulsed and never spread under 5.5 WPG. Moved up to MH, anbout 8 WPG total, and now it pulses constantly and spreads all over. Corals that had limped along, now are huge and healthy--the importance of lighting can not be underestimated.
Check the DIY forum--you can buy it peicemeal and assemble for cheaper.
For FO, or FOWLR, you'd be fine. The live rock won't have quite as much encrusting life, but it will color up and work biologically. It's when you start adding corals that the lighting is so important.
For FO, or FOWLR, you'd be fine. The live rock won't have quite as much encrusting life, but it will color up and work biologically. It's when you start adding corals that the lighting is so important.
I'm not sure where I heard this so I could be making it up but:
I heard that if you have a rock with good coraline algae and you scrape some of it off with a butter knife (very lightly, not huge chunks of it) it spreads around to the other rock. AGAIN, not sure where I read it. It might also spread it to the glass which would look quite nice if you lived IN the tank but probably not trying to look through it.
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I heard that if you have a rock with good coraline algae and you scrape some of it off with a butter knife (very lightly, not huge chunks of it) it spreads around to the other rock. AGAIN, not sure where I read it. It might also spread it to the glass which would look quite nice if you lived IN the tank but probably not trying to look through it.
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I'm not really sure how you ****** the lr up. But then, after reading the above posts, I realized I might have ****** mine up too, without knowing it. When I started my tank, I only had about 20lbs of lr. Needed at least 50 more lbs for a 75g tank. Anyway, to get to the point, I cycled my 20 lbs and by the time I was able to purchase more rock, my tank had cycled and was home to a couple of damsels (IMO... horrible fish, really). So my "new" lr was purchased via the internet. When it arrived, it was covered with really nice purple coraline algae. I cured this rock in a large trash can with a couple of power heads and a skimmer. I lost a lot of the algae (mostly from the shipping) but over the following months it returned more brilliantly than before. I agree that you need better lighting, but I read in a couple of books, on websites (and talked to others) that curing lr in low light or total darkness was the way to go... that's the way I did it. Not saying I'm right, but that's the way it went and I can't complain. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Was I deceived about curing lr without light? It's too late to worry about it now, but I would like to know.
btw, I didn't "brush" the rock but used a suction tube to remove the dead film (white stuff... kinda like a spider web) from it. I was confused on that part. Some say brushing is good, others say it's bad. I went with the majority and chose not to brush. I guess I'm a follower... not a leader.
btw, I didn't "brush" the rock but used a suction tube to remove the dead film (white stuff... kinda like a spider web) from it. I was confused on that part. Some say brushing is good, others say it's bad. I went with the majority and chose not to brush. I guess I'm a follower... not a leader.
