samdaman
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You might want to upgrade your lighting a bit, about how many watts does it put out?
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You might want to upgrade your lighting a bit, about how many watts does it put out?
10K/7100K combo lamp 105 watts
tbh not really sure yet. haha still relatively new to the hobby. im partial to xenia though and mushrooms/brain
samdaman
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Yeah, Well look up pictures, there are literally thousands, Xenia are cool, I like em, but ive gotten a love for stony corals..
cool yeah i will definitely plan ahead, i really dont want to overstock just want everything to be vibrant and healthy/happy. ill probably hold off on new coral atleast for a few weeks see how everything does. havent had any major pitfalls as of now all my readings are spot on do w/c once a week. although i have a slight hair algae problem, any ideas? i already am cutting back on nutriants
samdaman
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Yeah No rush, hear it will look nicer if you take it slow. For the hair algae, you can get some blue hermits, a lawnmower blenny, both of those do good at removing it, do you run a skimmer, the GHA is there because of excess nutrients, as you already know..
just cut the lights back from 9hr to 7hr aswell, dont have a skimmer the weekly W/c should be enough correct? also stocking for this size tank with hemits ive read that its roughly 1 per 5g that would put me at 4-5 total i currently have 1 blue 2 reds ideas? just need more hermits/snails? i already planned on getting some margherita's or nerites 4 more would put me at 8 total that enough iyo?
samdaman
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Yea that will help too, you could also remove manually, but make sure you take it out, if you leave it in the water column it will just attach wherever it lands.. Yeah a WC once a week is good, but just remember this is normal in a new tank. IMO the blue ones just eat GHA, the red don't. those margaritas and nerites will be enough for now.. once you start adding more stuff you can probably get more, I have more snails than that, IMO you cant have too much, unless there is no food and they are dying
cool yeah ill pop 2 more blue hermits and 4 more snails in friday, guess ill go get to taking some of it out by hand thanks for all the quick responses.
samdaman
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No problem buddy, hope that nuisance goes way soon
i just stired my sand bed and blasted down my dead spots and rock looks like a nutriant sand storm. lol new weekly habit i need to start.
thanks agian.
lol you can vacuum your sand bed weekly instead
i vaccum once a week but i dont think ive EVER blasted off my rockwork haha looks pretty nasty
