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They are kind of like Women...Hard To Understand, Not easy to keep, Hard to find a good one, and they sometimes go crazy and leave you.
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Originally Posted by Reef264 View Post
They are kind of like Women...Hard To Understand, Not easy to keep, Hard to find a good one, and they sometimes go crazy and leave you.
..and should always inspect both closely for crabs and/or bugs....
I can't comment on the lighting as I'm not very familiar with t5's. I use halides. But as far as adding a ATO and a skimmer, I would highly recommend both. In my opinion a skimmer is an absolute must to reduce waste from the water. Softy's like the dirty water a skimmerless system provides but not sps.
And an ATO is great too. Speaking of stability being important. Me and the girl went to NYC Christmas weekend, left friday night back monday night. During that time my refugium got clogged, overfilled, and ATO pumped in fresh water to make up for the displaced water and dropped my s.g. My salinity had been rock solid 1.025 and fortunately only dropped to 1.023. All my corals are fine, fortunately.. luckily really. But a few have lost the bright color they had. I've since added some reinforcements to my refugium filter so it shouldn't be a problem again. Point is that if you have an ATO (and don't mess up like me) it would keep you s.g. rock solid. Without it, you'd likely have a daily swing in s.g. (like I did on one day), and be wondering why you can't keep sps. Stability.
Man That's a bummer!Just Wondering For Future Reference, what exactly Clogged it?