Hi my name’s Ellis,
I’ve recently gotten into the saltwater tank hobby and would like some people opinions on my setup I’ve had for around 2 months now. I’m probably doing some things wrong and I always like to hear what other people have to say. I’ll post a pic or two for reference. It’s a 6 gallon setup with 3 corals (2 Soft and one Monti) and one electric blue damsel. CUC includes 2 astrea snails, 2 nassarius snails, 1 hermit, and 1 bumble bee snail.
Parameters: nitrate- 5.5
Alk dkh- 9.5
Phosphate- .03
Salinity- 1.025
PH- 8.2
I still need to test calcium and magnesium but I’ve been feeding benereef powder coral food that has some in it so I just kinda assume there’s some in there, plus I only have one small monti the size of a quarter so I don’t think it’s taking up much calcium.
My ultimate question for y’all is if my lightings really at all sufficient for the monti to grow, the max par reading you can even get from my light is 50 par but I have the tank in a spot that gets pretty good sunlight throughout the day. If it isn’t good enough it’d be cool if I could just slap another one of the same lights on it but I’d just like to hear other people’s opinions first.
I’ve recently gotten into the saltwater tank hobby and would like some people opinions on my setup I’ve had for around 2 months now. I’m probably doing some things wrong and I always like to hear what other people have to say. I’ll post a pic or two for reference. It’s a 6 gallon setup with 3 corals (2 Soft and one Monti) and one electric blue damsel. CUC includes 2 astrea snails, 2 nassarius snails, 1 hermit, and 1 bumble bee snail.
Parameters: nitrate- 5.5
Alk dkh- 9.5
Phosphate- .03
Salinity- 1.025
PH- 8.2
I still need to test calcium and magnesium but I’ve been feeding benereef powder coral food that has some in it so I just kinda assume there’s some in there, plus I only have one small monti the size of a quarter so I don’t think it’s taking up much calcium.
My ultimate question for y’all is if my lightings really at all sufficient for the monti to grow, the max par reading you can even get from my light is 50 par but I have the tank in a spot that gets pretty good sunlight throughout the day. If it isn’t good enough it’d be cool if I could just slap another one of the same lights on it but I’d just like to hear other people’s opinions first.