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He has no fish load so not need for much bacteria, put in 40 fish and see how he goes with that much rock.

I don’t think it is a matter of how much rock you need but I have found that if you have too little rock then it is hard to have many corals as the rock allows you to fit in more corals. I feel corals would add more waste than rock as they are shedding waste all the time. The golden rule is balance, take out too much nutrients and then you also get problems. If it was that simple by keeping less rock and going BB , then every BB would be spectacular, as yet I don’t see many.

There is your answer, Aihua are not good bulbs, that is why they are so cheap. cant find the par rating on them but they are so dim you can look at the bulbs while it is on.

what bulbs where you using?

It was under some mushrooms. it must have grown quite a bit as i doubt i would have missed anything that size.

you do look stupid

how did i miss that, must have grown from the rock. how big was it when you got it? it could be a subergorgia looking at my books.

looking good. one thing i hate about the closed loops is if the pump breaks you could will lose all your water.

as i have been saying for the last 100 years.

In two weeks your rocks should turn to gold.

CORNULARIA

http://www.miniriff.de/Szczyra/szczyra.html Another stunning german reef tank. 19x80w t5s 1500w of light

same

one thing i would change is my iks computer as i want a updated controller, harry up layton.

I am pretty happy with my set up. it has everything i want . only think i would change is my lighting would remove 4x400w and change to 8x250w or 150w. spread of light would give better results.

fish get mysis shrimp, flake, bannana, nori, salifert pellets,marine A, Only feed once a day during the week and twice on the weekend. Corals get reef roids, reef booster, amino acids I try to stay away from frozen foods as they do contain high po4.

4x 70w de 50000k

most will use 250de and 150 de. I use 4x 400w se.

Some new pics. Corals are growing very well since checking my Kh/Cal. Kh runs at 3meg/l and cal 420ppm. Another change of bulbs as not happy with the SPS bulbs. New bulbs going in will be reefluc 12000k , hopfully will be brighter with a small amount of blue, par ratings look good.

Indeed iron base removers will also remove organics other than po4. Still bottom line for me is i cant get away from only using a skimmer to remove po4. Rowaphos it is until something better.

nice clear pics.

cookie had a book on it.

Must be a good question

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