dr.diggler
Aquarium Advice Activist
My pap last night handed down his tank to me. I have been taking care of it for a bit now. Its a 75 gallon tank. I added my 34 lbs of live rock from my 28 euro bowfront to it making it around 70-80 lbs of live rock.
Light Question: He has a 175 Watt Metal Halide flood light on there that he bought from grainger and removed the base of it.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/productdetail.jsp?xi=xi&ItemId=1611635207&ccitem=
-I am going to buy another metal halide light and two atinic lights and make a aluminum hood for it. Is that sufficient light for a 75 gallon reef tank?
PowerHeads: I have 5 powerheads in the tank now. I am going to buy the coral life power strip that you can set to 15 minute intervals. Would there be a issue with this many powerheads in one tank and what is the best practice with powerheads and reef tanks.
He has a Fluval 304 on there with a wet-dry sitting in a box which will be going together real soon. My question is the wet dry came with bio balls, I posted on another thread about this and I was told to use live rock rubble and not the bio balls because of the debris that can collect on the bio balls. Good idea?
One last qustion, what is currently in the tank are two tomato clowns and a hippo tang. The hippo tangs color is almost a faded blue. Besides pellets what would be good for color enhancing.
I will post pics of the tank tommrow, his tank is to the left of the 28gallon in my pictures.
Light Question: He has a 175 Watt Metal Halide flood light on there that he bought from grainger and removed the base of it.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/productdetail.jsp?xi=xi&ItemId=1611635207&ccitem=
-I am going to buy another metal halide light and two atinic lights and make a aluminum hood for it. Is that sufficient light for a 75 gallon reef tank?
PowerHeads: I have 5 powerheads in the tank now. I am going to buy the coral life power strip that you can set to 15 minute intervals. Would there be a issue with this many powerheads in one tank and what is the best practice with powerheads and reef tanks.
He has a Fluval 304 on there with a wet-dry sitting in a box which will be going together real soon. My question is the wet dry came with bio balls, I posted on another thread about this and I was told to use live rock rubble and not the bio balls because of the debris that can collect on the bio balls. Good idea?
One last qustion, what is currently in the tank are two tomato clowns and a hippo tang. The hippo tangs color is almost a faded blue. Besides pellets what would be good for color enhancing.
I will post pics of the tank tommrow, his tank is to the left of the 28gallon in my pictures.