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Update 11/28/2020 - Got an Anemone, got over some of the issues I've made it through the issues I was having. I did some proactive things to help fight off the dinos. I also went through a bout of green hair algae, then cyano. Thankfully things are nice and clean. The cycle went from snot like...

Even though my no3 and po4 are down near 0? I do have some chemiclean I could throw at it as a first measure though. The tank has a ton of flow as it is at the moment I feel - maybe I could throw another small powerhead in there. One of the reasons I am leaning toward dinos is because the way...

So it is time for an update. Unfortunately I find myself fighting back dinos. What I initially thought was cyano, turned out to be dinos I presume. I would go through the entire process of getting a microscope and trying to confirm, but at this point I am just going to go the route of the...

I am holding off on getting it at the moment. For now, I think I have the lights tuned to where I like them and I have a decent formula setup for figuring out the PAR at certain points. I may get the Seneye for the spectrum reading it gives though. I've always been curious what mine looks like...

Gotcha - makes sense. Did you get the whole webserver version? I was messing around with the idea of getting it but for the webserver it seems more expensive than it's worth. If anything, $200 for a PAR meter is worth it to me lol.

Did you use it for all the features? Or was it solely for the PAR meter?

It also looks like you may need more rock.. To keep a successful SPS reef you will need great filtration - with that little rock, there will be few places for beneficial bacteria to grow.

Check out the video of how he suggests to use it. Long story short, you want the most surface area available to you when the bacteria is colonizing the tank. Any sort of pre-filter (filter floss or filter socks) should be removed since those are things that you will be changing out during...

This sounds like a nice sized tank. Please post some pictures if you have any. I agree yellow tangs can get stressed if not in a longer tank. That being said, some people buy them small with the intention of rehoming them to a larger system or upgrading their current setup. Probably not the...

I am really noticing that LEDs in general are much stronger than they look. Eyes really aren't a good indicator on how "strong" the lights are since our eyes auto adjust. Renting a PAR meter was a great investment, these corals would have been fried if I were judging off my eyes. I am even...

If you were stirring everything up, might want to plan a large water change in case the levels got thrown out of whack. Pics of the new layout?

Looks good. That first clownfish photo almost fooled me, looked like it was out in the open ocean lol. How long has the tank been running?

It worked surprisingly well. Considering the light was a lot stronger than I knew - without it I would have been frying corals left and right lol. In fact, the preset light schedule the lights have in their program would have melted a bunch of my corals. Would have been around 400-500 PAR on...

So, some of the issues I've had so far are chalked up to not knowing the intensity of this light. I've bleached a couple SPS frags (nothing has died yet thankfully). This led to me renting a PAR meter from BRS and doing some tests on the light. This was the grid/location of the par...

Some of the frags in the tank at the moment: