AQUEON Optibright led 30-36 inch, the guys at my local store said it would be plenty enough, temp 78, salinity 1.024 ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate around 4ppm. Tank has been running for around 4 months (40 gallon breeder)
My nitrate is not zero? Any suggestion on what I should do if anything, will be doing more research for lighting.
Yes I do use RoDi. It doesn’t seem unhappy to you? He’s shrank up a little bit before and will return regular within a hour or 2 but I’ve read that’s normal but never this much.
Can't judge a nem by things they do day to day. Sometimes mine are the size of a dinner plate and others look like chewed up gum. Take note of long term trends. Growth, less inflation, constant moving. Those are better indicators. When a nem is outright dying, there's no mistaking it. More often than not, in an unhappy environment, there's no growth and they seem to inflate less and wander.
Unfortunately your light is not going to be capable of keeping anything alive. Those lights are more for viewing. If it is only rated for low light plants, it’s not going to work for coral and especially a Nem
Not necessarily. I've had some that like to be up in the light and flow with the H. Mags.
Definitely going to get a new light for the tank tomorrow, I have Sicce voyager stream pump 2 on one end of the tank but didn’t think it was enough so I found a marine land maxi-jet 400 laying around the house that I had used for a freshwater years ago that’s on the other end of the tank (40 gallon breeder) “OP Can we see an FTS?” Not sure what this means still new to this stuff but the nem has came out more since posting this earlier
Baseline for flow should be no dead spots anywhere in the tank while not strong enough to blow sand around. Also while providing surface agitation.
