Light and flow help

[reefingformysons]

I looked at your light online.....You're not getting enough spread for sure.

Is there a light you’d recommend for this tank or better just grabbing another xr15?

 

[Uncle99]

What do you mean by fluxes sorry? It’s about 8/9 months old

Fluxes are key, more important IMM than levels within reason.

So, as an example, for me.
Alk is 160ppm and flux is 5ppm measured every 24hrs for 3 years.
Nitrate is 11ppm and phosphate 0.16ppm measured weekly for 3 years.
Temp is 77.7 to 78.1
Salinity pinned at 1.025, no variation.

I am not in anyway doubting your chemistry but, is that 8 to 9 months stable, or X months fluctuating and X months stable. Can be huge difference.

I can see softies in the pics which don’t require much flow at all. Your light should easily handle these coral types.

But they love nutrients and can mop them up fast.

Your 5.8ppm nitrate is fine.

But phosphate at 0.04ppm is low IMM, if your test was off just a bit, it could also be 0.00ppm which starves everyone and makes corals unhappy.

You could easily run 0.1-0.2ppm in a softy environment.

Then if test was off, would clearly not be zero.

 

[MrGisonni]

Is there a light you’d recommend for this tank or better just grabbing another xr15?

Probably just another x-15 to cover the entire tank.

 

[MrGisonni]

Wow those x-15 GS pro lights are expensive I hate to tell you to spend another 500 plus dollars on lighting

 

[MrGisonni]

 

[MrGisonni]

Yeah I don't know depending on the shape of your next aquarium and your goals there, I might use the Radion on that 30 gallon and then get yourself two AI primes 16 HDS to run on this aquarium. I have two prime 16s on my 30 gallon long aquarium mounted about 9 in off the water in my mixed reef and I'm packed full of corals. Now, that being said, some of my acropora would certainly benefit from more light to grow faster, but they are growing. My lights are only running at about 65%