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    Instant Ocean vs. Reef Crystals

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    Try not to over complicate it just do smaller but more often water changes with switching to IO. It’s cheaper, has all of the same stuffs in it, maybe just a tad less. Just monitor the big 3 during transition keep them on track and you will be fine. If you dose regularly and see a number creeping down a tad fast then just dose more of that to try to keep it in line. I don’t think trace element is anything to worry about until things are so overgrown.

    Lightning suggestions for a 60 cube.

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    I have two kessil over my 65g they are growing acros nicely. I have to run them full blast to keep par at 200. Had to buy them because of the shimmering Looks awesome

    In my dark living room. If price isn’t a factor and don’t give a darn about shimmer get radions as there is a lot of forums out there on settings for acros. Proven fixture for sure

    Jason Fox's different approach

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    · Edited by gmerek2

    All you read about is people bragging about their high par but I also have difficulty doing it. If things are 100% happy it’s achievable in my tank but if they aren’t up to 100% on the health meter I feel like they can’t handle it. The high par definitely brings some extra colors out I have not seen in my tank though. As far as the blue goes I don’t run my tanks all blue as it bothers my eyes and I don’t like the look as much. So the only opinion i have on that matter is that there is more than one way to skin a cat. The acro colors are close to where they need to be if not spot on so there is no need to adjust to more blue spectrum

    Anemone and Mandarin Dragonet

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    · Edited by gmerek2

    Buy the captive bred biota ones they come wired to like both pods and pellets and may quickly learn to take frozen. Mandarins In a 45, especially a pair will lose weight quick. The captive bred ones will be your only chance :( unfortunately I added a pair in my 65 and they had the pod population wiped out in a week. Removed them to my larger tank when lateral line showed first signs

    Of weight loss, to keep it on track my tanks both have 1 anemone

    Low dKH and high calcium

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    add some alk dude. Something is using it up without using Ca.

    +1 Yea this might be a situation to not over think it. Just slowly slowly raise the alk. Everything is constantly slowly adjusting and changing as things grow. It’s good to consistantly test and adapt with it

    TrueTricia's Beachside Build (size TBD)

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    · Edited by gmerek2

    The only problems I have had with the fish you listed were my CBB requires fresh frozen food and requires it often. Paying a fish sitter to come by for me and drop in a frozen chunk once per day while I’m gone gets a little costly for a $40 fish (once a day isn’t enough in my tank but enough to keep it alive while I’m gone) also the other thing I’m struggling with is mandarins. I had rescued 4 of them looking so skinny and showing lateral bone line at LFS they are rarely fat at LFS anyhow as they quickly deplete any pod population in the 10g LFS and are purged of food at supplier. So long story short I got them skinny, they fatten up quick and grow well in my pod loaded tanks and then some went MIA for no reason. The good news is that two are still alive but it’s only been 6 months. So if you are set on them despite the warnings like I was I recommend buying the captive bred biota mjandarins. There is really exciting talk about them eating pellets and being all around stronger. I also recommend buying a used CBB as I had a ton of trouble finding a healthy one then had trouble getting it to eat frozen. I hate to start off so negative but my CBB has consumed so much of my dang time I just had to go on a rant about it lol. Anyhow Welcome back! To Wamas at least! Just follow your dream build, work out the kinks and go with it. Most importantly thank you for your service!

    Black Storms to Host?

    in General Discussion

    I probably should mention though, seems to me Clowns will host anything they can adjust to and is close to where they call home. I had a set host frogspawn then moved on to torch after(2 BTA were in tank) Again though that’s great that they are hanging around the BTA as I think they are just “testing the waters” lol

    Black Storms to Host?

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    · Edited by gmerek2

    If they are hanging around it like that they are going to host it when their slime coats adjust and it starts to feel like a back rub instead of stings. Mine hung around for several months also before they started hosting (regular clowns)

    How many fish in a 265?....

    in General Discussion

    I’m so a fan of small bio load and large water I agree with reef bum. It makes it easier in the long run for controlling algae during the new tank years. Right now my tank runs to clean but it’s loaded with corals up taking nutrients and only has 14 fish in 240g

    Ecotech Radions

    in General Discussion

    Based on my experience acros can take more par with T5. If I turn my ocean revive up passed 250 par I see problems. My Kessil tank grow acros just as fast but I lost a lot of time fine tuning them (run them full blast) So my opinion wrapped up into a quick sentence: LEDs have a learning curve with all the adjustability but can be just as good as T5, where as T5 is a set it and forget it. Now I have never owned radion and there is a lot of info out there on them so that will be the way to get out of the adjustability learning curve.

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