Coral placement/ growth

[OGReeferTY]

I’ve placed the corals at random spaced out. Growth seems minimal. I got this devils hand coral two weeks ago. Doesn’t seem to open much. And I also moved my wavemaker to the left. My phosphates were high but I’ve been adding phosguard. Went down from 4- .25 currently. Running a marine 3.0 light as well. Any other things I should be looking out for? Just started getting back into husbandry. Cleaned up most of the GHA. Also only have one fish so I feed once every 2-3 days.

 

[MoshJosh]

Just aim for keeping your parameters on point consistently. I am not terribly surprised you have not seen much growth given how new the corals are to the tank, and considering there have been parameter fluctuation during that short time. Seems like you are on the right track just gonna take some consistency and time.

The light you have is not overly powerful but the corals you have are high light corals so that should be fine. I will say in the photos your spectrum looks very purple. Not bad per se, but curious what your light settings are.

 

[OGReeferTY]

Just aim for keeping your parameters on point consistently. I am not terribly surprised you have not seen much growth given how new the corals are to the tank, and considering there have been parameter fluctuation during that short time. Seems like you are on the right track just gonna take some consistency and time.

The light you have is not overly powerful but the corals you have are high light corals so that should be fine. I will say in the photos your spectrum looks very purple. Not bad per se, but curious what your light settings are.

Hard to find light settings to use on the fluval marine 3.0. Any tips would be appreciated

 

[MoshJosh]

I will try to get a screen shot when I get home, but off the top of my head I think I do 1 hour ramp up, 1 hour ramp down, no other variations, 12 hours a total. Think Blue 90% purple and cyan at 75% white and red at 45%. . . or something like that. I grow corals but I am by no means an expert so take my parameters with a grain of salt.

 

[OGReeferTY]

I will try to get a screen shot when I get home, but off the top of my head I think I do 1 hour ramp up, 1 hour ramp down, no other variations, 12 hours a total. Think Blue 90% purple and cyan at 75% white and red at 45%. . . or something like that. I grow corals but I am by no means an expert so take my parameters with a grain of salt.

I appreciate that. I kept reds down because I’ve heard they’re not the best to have higher. Don’t know where I read it, I read a lot of things

 

[MoshJosh]

I did for the longest time as well but I saw a few people boosting it so I am giving it a try:

Fluval marine 3.0 lighting settings

I don't understand the sporadic points you guys run, it's to mimic the sun not a disco.. First is my 75g display mixed reef tank, second is my planted freshwater 49gal bowfront, third is my 60 g long cichlid tank

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[OGReeferTY]

I will try to get a screen shot when I get home, but off the top of my head I think I do 1 hour ramp up, 1 hour ramp down, no other variations, 12 hours a total. Think Blue 90% purple and cyan at 75% white and red at 45%. . . or something like that. I grow corals but I am by no means an expert so take my parameters with a grain of salt.

did you ever get that screenshot of your marine 3.0 settings?

 

[MoshJosh]

here are my most current settings: