wargeneral
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Hi
I have a 220 gal 30 inch high reef with about 100lbs or so of live rock. It has about 30 corals and about 15 fish. This has been setup for a few years now. I am having issues with SPS with getting the light to them. I have a few of them about 17inches from the my 150w metal halides w t5's. That being said some of them are bleaching from the bottom and others peeling. Not sure if this is a light issue or flow or phosphate issue. Most of the soft corals are doing fine. Cept a bubble coral which I think was just a placement issue. My mushrooms maybe don't seem to like the flow of the tank. Most of them are closed.
My phosphates from my crappy api test kit hard to tell. Look like .05 or .08 or 1.0.
My flow if 2 Mag 5's and 2 other Korial 800gal per hrs pumps. Seems like plenty of flow to me.
So if it's not the phosphates I was thinking about the light. I can't get the sps's any higher. So I was thinking about getting more rock. I was looking at my setup and no of my rocks are glues or mounted in any way. So it's a pain sometimes putting corals in. I also haven't glued any of my corals down.
So I was thinking should I resetup the tank to do this. Which would be a pain.
I'm not sure. What would be the best setup? Some people have pvc drilled into there live rock.
My setup
220 gal with 10yr water.
Cpr large refug with calerpa and mangroves with a small sand bed. 10k bulb 32watt
4-5 inch sandbed a few years old
1- 550 Phosban Reactor was running chemipure elite. I shut this down waiting for a shipment of phosban to come. As I think it leaching phosphates back into the tank.
1 - 150 Phosban Reactor running the same only because I had so much of the chemipure.
1 - Turbofloater Protein Skimmer rated at 250 gallons
1 - Corallife UV 18w - I run this only when needed.
Water changes once a week with Coral Life Salt or Instant Ocean. Switching to Reef Crystals.
Current Outer Orbit fixture 3 mh 150w 14k Current-us bulbs 8 39w T5's Antic's
(I might change this fixture for 3 mh 250w with t5's)
I have a 220 gal 30 inch high reef with about 100lbs or so of live rock. It has about 30 corals and about 15 fish. This has been setup for a few years now. I am having issues with SPS with getting the light to them. I have a few of them about 17inches from the my 150w metal halides w t5's. That being said some of them are bleaching from the bottom and others peeling. Not sure if this is a light issue or flow or phosphate issue. Most of the soft corals are doing fine. Cept a bubble coral which I think was just a placement issue. My mushrooms maybe don't seem to like the flow of the tank. Most of them are closed.
My phosphates from my crappy api test kit hard to tell. Look like .05 or .08 or 1.0.
My flow if 2 Mag 5's and 2 other Korial 800gal per hrs pumps. Seems like plenty of flow to me.
So if it's not the phosphates I was thinking about the light. I can't get the sps's any higher. So I was thinking about getting more rock. I was looking at my setup and no of my rocks are glues or mounted in any way. So it's a pain sometimes putting corals in. I also haven't glued any of my corals down.
So I was thinking should I resetup the tank to do this. Which would be a pain.
I'm not sure. What would be the best setup? Some people have pvc drilled into there live rock.
My setup
220 gal with 10yr water.
Cpr large refug with calerpa and mangroves with a small sand bed. 10k bulb 32watt
4-5 inch sandbed a few years old
1- 550 Phosban Reactor was running chemipure elite. I shut this down waiting for a shipment of phosban to come. As I think it leaching phosphates back into the tank.
1 - 150 Phosban Reactor running the same only because I had so much of the chemipure.
1 - Turbofloater Protein Skimmer rated at 250 gallons
1 - Corallife UV 18w - I run this only when needed.
Water changes once a week with Coral Life Salt or Instant Ocean. Switching to Reef Crystals.
Current Outer Orbit fixture 3 mh 150w 14k Current-us bulbs 8 39w T5's Antic's
(I might change this fixture for 3 mh 250w with t5's)
