thank you for the reply! I don't understand the spectrum, but its at 15k. I've messed with it a little, but I was having bad algae on the glass at 60% so the LFS said to drop it to 40% I will jump it up and see what happens. when I had the Kessil, my friend said since I have softies, to keep it lower. Maybe since they are 2 different lights, there is different technology??
I really just have softies. Zoas, a couple leathers, and mushrooms..I have bought a couple hard corals not thinking, and they started to die, so I quickly gave them away. My perimeters were good, so I was a little confused. so you would say start the lights at 8 am, be at the peak at 9, stay at the peak till 4, then off at 5? Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it!
Just softies and Zoas should be fine at that low level of light for awhile - although I would aim to raise the light percentage once you get algae under control. No reason you can’t run those lights at 100% - 15k spectrum preset eventually.
At that time the tank, sand, and plumbing was about a month old. All rock was established. I had never run GFO before, but the LFS recommended I did. I also add phosphate stuff to lower the phosphate.
Thank you! Are you saying feed the fish every other day? Right now I’m feeding rods mix of herbivore, and original blend once a day, and later in the day I do s few pinch of new life spectrum. I see what you are saying about the pellets falling to bottom. I do have 2 anthias. They always look so hungry! Haha. I will check out that link, thank you.
tank sounds pretty new. the rock was established in a previous aquarium with fish? or just bought as live rock from a LFS rock tank? rock that has been used to a certain bio load will do fine. but if its just rock in a tank with no fish then it may not have enough beneficial bacteria to sustain a certain number of fish. but if its only the 2 anthias then you should be fine. tanks will go through a ton of ugly stages over the first year or so. maybe upload a pic of the current tank and list your current filtration equipment. any testing equipment? my tank is roughly 2 years old. went through a bunch of ugly algae stages even with nutrients controlled. all i did was starve my corals and made their colors pale chasing nutrients to low levels. i purchased a bunch of herbivores (snails, a tang, and lawnmower blenny) and up'd the nutrients. colors are all good and no algae other than scraping the glass.
Run them at 100%! Here’s my schedule.
