Rozzys Reef
New Member
Hi everyone My 1st marine tank must of been around 13 years ago, it was a second hand boyu 125 and not using the internet much then made some really dumb butt mistakes, the one that’s really drilled into my head from that tank is just dumping around seven snails in (1st cuc) no acclimation needless to say they didn’t live long.
Over the years I’ve had a few in between a loverly 4 foot sumped tank but due to financial situations had to get rid. But that must of been 8/9 years ago and even then I was missing some major information (like the importance of alk) plus I’m sure nitrates to 30ppm was acceptable, anyhow explains why I couldn’t keep sps. After a long gap (kept nsw inbetween) I came bake to tropical marine as that’s where my real passion lies, after an incredible amount of reading and the brs videos (which I love) I slowly set up a old Red Sea max 250. I still struggle with many things as there’s so much to learn but research, research, research before making any changes and when I do there are slow. (No more lobbing in snails) the main issue I have at present is lighting, I don’t know what to do for the best. It’s a six t5 system at present I have 4 blue led t5 and two white led 5 I did have 3 of each but change a white out for a blue hoping for better spectrum and more par for corals but par has dropped and two weeks on sps are fading one in particular is brown on its highest part with polyps in where it’s browned? So two days ago I’ve moved it up higher to see if that makes a difference. (Nothing yet but I’ll leave it a couple weeks) so now I’m thinking do I go back to 50/50 or do I need even more ratio of whites to keep sps. Bear in mind as I understand it the marine whites are more in the blue spectrum. Insights would be really welcome as I’m not sure what todo.
Over the years I’ve had a few in between a loverly 4 foot sumped tank but due to financial situations had to get rid. But that must of been 8/9 years ago and even then I was missing some major information (like the importance of alk) plus I’m sure nitrates to 30ppm was acceptable, anyhow explains why I couldn’t keep sps. After a long gap (kept nsw inbetween) I came bake to tropical marine as that’s where my real passion lies, after an incredible amount of reading and the brs videos (which I love) I slowly set up a old Red Sea max 250. I still struggle with many things as there’s so much to learn but research, research, research before making any changes and when I do there are slow. (No more lobbing in snails) the main issue I have at present is lighting, I don’t know what to do for the best. It’s a six t5 system at present I have 4 blue led t5 and two white led 5 I did have 3 of each but change a white out for a blue hoping for better spectrum and more par for corals but par has dropped and two weeks on sps are fading one in particular is brown on its highest part with polyps in where it’s browned? So two days ago I’ve moved it up higher to see if that makes a difference. (Nothing yet but I’ll leave it a couple weeks) so now I’m thinking do I go back to 50/50 or do I need even more ratio of whites to keep sps. Bear in mind as I understand it the marine whites are more in the blue spectrum. Insights would be really welcome as I’m not sure what todo.
