Coral growth and placement questions

[human]

I'm going to guess that Fluval light isn't going to support any high light needing corals such as SPS, but should be ok for lower light corals such as mushrooms, some zoas, bubble corals and other lower light specific corals. Canister filters and bioballs can be nitrate traps if not cleaned on a regular basis, they trap detritus which continue to break down causing issues. Not sure how often you clean those areas. Now my suggestion to you would to get a PAR 38 led with a spectrum between 5500K-7000K and replace the bioballs and filter pad with a ball of Chaetomorpha to help absorb excess nutrients. Stability is the key to reef keeping and your setup is going to cause you to have swings in nitrates, and ammonia just from settling detritus. Pick up an API saltwater master kit, it'll give you the basics on what you need to test for or take a water sample to your local LFS and get the results back to us and we can go from there to help get you on the right track.

 

[Duke4Life]

A lot of people aren't going to waste their time giving advice to someone who has clearly ignored advice in the past. Sorry, but it's frustrating from both angles.

I totally understand because I often feel the same when I see some post, possibly even part of this 1. Ever owned an eel? I do and luckily I've had people look past an eel is an eel and still offered me advice on fish I look at adding, without them looking over the eel and giving me advice, my tank would be a war zone.

This is is directed at the forum:
I know it's hard when you don't agree with what someone's doing to offer advice, but by not offering what's on the tip of your tongue if it can help is worse, you never know when that other person can help you when you need it. ( think I'm starting to get soft in my older years)

 

[human]

I totally understand because I often feel the same when I see some post, possibly even part of this 1. Ever owned an eel? I do and luckily I've had people look past an eel is an eel and still offered me advice on fish I look at adding, without them looking over the eel and giving me advice, my tank would be a war zone.

This is is directed at the forum:
I know it's hard when you don't agree with what someone's doing to offer advice, but by not offering what's on the tip of your tongue if it can help is worse, you never know when that other person can help you when you need it. ( think I'm starting to get soft in my older years)

The way I see things is even if someone is doing things completely wrong bc they think they know, if they're asking for advice I'm still going to help them regardless. Maybe it'll open their eyes to the fact that what they know is wrong and possibly save them from making that same mistake in the future. There is tons of bad advice out there, especially coming from LFS trying to make a buck. I cringe at some of the things I've heard at the stores I visit. I've been in this hobby since I was a little kid, I'm no expert, will never claim to be, but I know what won't work and what does. I try to help the inhabitants of the tank rather than tell someone to get rid of it, bc most are reluctant and the critters will only suffer more bc that person will ignore your advice the more you push the fact that certain fish don't belong.

 

[nport19]

Luke5694- I get were your coming from. I am looking to get a bigger tank in the future. I can't afford to just go out and buy new tanks left and right if you know what I mean.

 

[nport19]

Update. I just got a reef foundation pro test kit Red Sea to test for ca,KH, and MG. I have no idea how to read the numbers from the test results. Anyone have experience with this test kit? Also I have fewer fish in my reef tank currently. I also now have a refractometer. Found a better home for the tang. Now I'm down to my two clown fish, a sunrise dotty back, a yellow tail damsel and a jaw fish. The new light will be arriving in the next week.