revaltion131
New member
Hello all. My question is pretty simple.
My first SW tank is really coming around, all params are great besides the nitrates being high (10-15 ppm) and I'm working on bringing them down slowly. I used my tap to fill before thinking to do a test for nitrates. The tap itself tested out to 20 ppm, so I'm very slowly lowering them by doing 10% water changes every couple of days with RO/DI water. It will probably be at least another week, more than likely 2-3, before I add my first coral, but I'd like to do all my research in advance so I can have whatever additives and food ready before I buy a coral.
My tank is a 34 gallon all-in-one, so there's not actually 34 gallons of free water. I have ~35 lbs of LR with a 2" deep fine LS bed. The rock was cured at the LFS for three weeks before I bought it. The lighting is a 150w MH pendant.
These are the three I'd like to choose from, and would like to know what you all think would be a good choice. First is an open brain, second is torch, and third is hammer. From what info I have found so far on the three, I may need to tuck the coral back in a "cave" in the rock or on the sandbed (the brain) so they aren't under too much lighting.
Hope I provided enough info, feel free to ask for more. Thanks in advance!
My first SW tank is really coming around, all params are great besides the nitrates being high (10-15 ppm) and I'm working on bringing them down slowly. I used my tap to fill before thinking to do a test for nitrates. The tap itself tested out to 20 ppm, so I'm very slowly lowering them by doing 10% water changes every couple of days with RO/DI water. It will probably be at least another week, more than likely 2-3, before I add my first coral, but I'd like to do all my research in advance so I can have whatever additives and food ready before I buy a coral.
My tank is a 34 gallon all-in-one, so there's not actually 34 gallons of free water. I have ~35 lbs of LR with a 2" deep fine LS bed. The rock was cured at the LFS for three weeks before I bought it. The lighting is a 150w MH pendant.
These are the three I'd like to choose from, and would like to know what you all think would be a good choice. First is an open brain, second is torch, and third is hammer. From what info I have found so far on the three, I may need to tuck the coral back in a "cave" in the rock or on the sandbed (the brain) so they aren't under too much lighting.
Hope I provided enough info, feel free to ask for more. Thanks in advance!
You can probably get a hammer/ frogspawn frag for $10 if your local store sells frags or you have a local club. Once you see it growing going ahead for the higher price brain. The torch is also a possible frist choice, but they are sometimes hard to find in my area. BYW, If the hammer/frogspawn starts to have a big bubble in the center it is splitting to form a new head.
