Sir Alex
Dragon the eel (below)
I had always though that my lights where a bit on the white side... I have a radion in my house since it'll be going on my grandfather's cube, which has been running on the eel tank for the last couple days. They seemed REALLY nice and blue. Today I tested the unit over my reef, and too my great surprise, even at 14k the radion didn't look as blue as mine. At 10k which was surprising blue on the eel tank, it looked fairly yellow on my tank. So I'm thinking it's actually my tank that's white/yellow not the lights. All the rocks started as dry rock 4 months ago and hardly have an corralin. I think I might have some minor diatoms (I've had no algae problems whatsoever), which are making the rocks a little bleehhh. Nitrates > 2 ppm and phosphates are about 0.1.
I'm thinking a few different solutions... All I have for a cuc is a turbo snail and 7 hermit crabs. Maybe it's time for me to actually get a cuc?? And maybe a phosban reactor, since I was thinking about getting one anyway to run carbon..? And something else that would REALLY help the looks of my tank is if I had more corallin!! I put three small corallin covered rocks from the eel tank in there. All the corallin disappeared off those rocks after being in the tank for a couple weeks. Could it have something to do with my magnesium level? With the red sea test kit it reads 1600 ppm+. But it also gets that reading the eel tank which has decent corallin growth.
Help appreciated!
I'm thinking a few different solutions... All I have for a cuc is a turbo snail and 7 hermit crabs. Maybe it's time for me to actually get a cuc?? And maybe a phosban reactor, since I was thinking about getting one anyway to run carbon..? And something else that would REALLY help the looks of my tank is if I had more corallin!! I put three small corallin covered rocks from the eel tank in there. All the corallin disappeared off those rocks after being in the tank for a couple weeks. Could it have something to do with my magnesium level? With the red sea test kit it reads 1600 ppm+. But it also gets that reading the eel tank which has decent corallin growth.
Help appreciated!