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Originally Posted by brad4racer How Did You Lower Your Cal Level? Mine Is 540 And Cant Get It Down. I Did Three 20% Water Changes In Last Month. i just did plenty of water changes

hay great tank! do you have any progress pics of you setting up the frag tank in with the rest of the system?

Originally Posted by jetskiking I agree, there is alot to be learned from people taking PAR readings. Problem is PAR meters are expensive. luckily i know a few people and our local club owns a couple. is there anyone in your club or that you know that can throw up some more info on this forum?

Originally Posted by tank a holic out of curiosity what is your calcium level? its now down to 460 ppm

Originally Posted by jetskiking Oceanic 30 cube is 20x18x20 high. AGA 120 48x24x24 high. I ran the fixture about 15" off the water on the thirty and about 5" off the water in the 120. The 120 has two fixtures of course but the exact same everything. The PAR readings are about the same at the...

Originally Posted by jetskiking I also have a 120 that runs the same fixtures and the par is about the same. The fixtures are closer to the water than they were on the 30. PAR is more about depth than actual gallons. what are the dimensions of the 30gal and the 120gal?

anyone else want to share?

Originally Posted by Nick76 Do a google search, they look like tiny grey pyramids with holes in the top. But even soon I have a lot of them and still have plenty of coraline. i have a # of them in my sump but not the main tank

+1 on pics!! i want to see too

can a moderator move this to the lighting section please

Originally Posted by jelly-shrimp are those stars good then? Or are they pretty much pointless? i was told they were beneficial and help to keep the tank clean if you have enough which i have tons!

Originally Posted by Nick76 I dont think those stars are a problem I have tons of them, harmless they are. Your calcium is high so I would rule that out and you replaced your bulbs so its not low wattage thats doing it, hmm... Have any limpets? I have a bunch here n there that eat my coraline...

excellent this is what im talking about may not be a flop after all

ok this might end up being a total flop but here goesi see now that light watts per gallon is hit and miss and light par is what we need nowbut some people dont have the money for par read outs which ive been reading and i think its supposed to be about 100 par at the bottom of the substrate...

this is going to be a great project im tagging along! and a BIG welcome

well its been a few months i got new lights and still not hardly any growth at all im still thinking it might be a bad mix of oceanic salt i have some new tropic marine pro reef on order i will give it some more time and see if i notice any change

Originally Posted by goinbroke how do you guys get your pictures so big? i upload mine to photobucket and paste the link in the insert picture box in the menu above the type message box

what the hay i will play not as good looking as other ones here but im proud of it

Originally Posted by mantisman51 I have alot of small stars like that, but not any coraline being eaten. I had a couple purple urchins that left rows of coraline eaten like that. Do you have any urchins? nope im betting its the lights

Originally Posted by salt210 whatever is doing it is doing a clean job at it lol tell me about it!