So I started this tank a little differently than I have in the past used XLM bacteria it cycled pretty easily I'm about half way through stocking it (40 breeder about 55 pounds of marco rock and a 4 gallon refugium) numbers looked good last time 0/0 maybe 0/10 on nitrite and nitrate. I reverse cycle my chaeto so keep the ph swings minimal and pod population looks booming on my glass.
I threw a few tester corals from wwc $5 rack in a few weeks ago and there not thrilled and I haven't pinpointed it yet as to why they weren't exactly in great shape when i got them hence the $5 rack but still they've lost color or otherwise receded.
sps has lost a bit of color and lack full polyp extension the one was already bleaching when it went into the tank so can't really say thats gotten any worse
acans arent as fluffy as they should be
flow is a jebao ow-10 and 25 on w1 the 25 running about 40-50% and the 10 running about 80% 1/3 down from the top in dueling position both with a curve to the surface it should be turning the tank atleast 60 times
photonv2+ lights top rocks are getting about 300 par with the light diffuser on mid day to keep the fish in i run about 75% on the blue channels and 20% on the others
The only thing I've noticed is with this flow I still accumulate a ton of crap on my live rock almost like theres low flow. I was considering switching the vortech mp10 instead of the ow25 but didn't wanna throw $300 at this for no reason
I was curious if anything else could be a little less obvious and maybe theres something I'm just missing
I threw a few tester corals from wwc $5 rack in a few weeks ago and there not thrilled and I haven't pinpointed it yet as to why they weren't exactly in great shape when i got them hence the $5 rack but still they've lost color or otherwise receded.
sps has lost a bit of color and lack full polyp extension the one was already bleaching when it went into the tank so can't really say thats gotten any worse
acans arent as fluffy as they should be
flow is a jebao ow-10 and 25 on w1 the 25 running about 40-50% and the 10 running about 80% 1/3 down from the top in dueling position both with a curve to the surface it should be turning the tank atleast 60 times
photonv2+ lights top rocks are getting about 300 par with the light diffuser on mid day to keep the fish in i run about 75% on the blue channels and 20% on the others
The only thing I've noticed is with this flow I still accumulate a ton of crap on my live rock almost like theres low flow. I was considering switching the vortech mp10 instead of the ow25 but didn't wanna throw $300 at this for no reason
I was curious if anything else could be a little less obvious and maybe theres something I'm just missing
