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04-21-2009, 08:03 PM
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Can you try cutting back your lights on time to around 6 hours with the whites...and have the actinics come on an hour earlier and stay on for an hour later.....so the total lights on will be around 8 hours.
Also can you check your phosphate levels. When the tank was first started up....did you notice a tank cycle.... 
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04-21-2009, 08:25 PM
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I didn't actually 'notice' a tank cycle but did not test daily either. LFS has said that is pretty normal., but also said to keep the salinity at 1.023. Would the tank have not properly cycled with just LR? As I had mentioned, I do have 3 LPS corals that are living still and look totally fine. Should they be fed every few days with the foods I was sold for them or can they survive longer periods? Would they not survive on a tank that has not cycled?
As for the other questions, I clean my sock under the tap by hand and throw them in the wash every 4 weeks or so without detergent or anything. The snails I believe were Astreal (sp?) and bought 10.....six are easily visible at any given time. They obvioulsy move very slow and so they even have some algae growing on them  The 10 hermits I had I cannot see anymore (either all croaked or in the LR), but the cleaner shrimp is quite active and looks healthy. So 2 things: I should cut back lights to 8 hours a day total, say noon to 8pm and get more of a clean-up crew?
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04-21-2009, 09:39 PM
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how much do you feed your fish? do you dose anything?
had this problem when i was loading my system with nutrients. just watch how much you feed your fish and cut down your photoperiod to 8 hours... and keep scrubbing.
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