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I know to a big extent this is personal choice but I wanted more feed back.
I'm currently using coralife aquapro 72" w/3-150 10k bulbs and 4-96 watt actinics.
I was thinking of going all t5's like 8-54 watt fixture.
now I'm thinking 2-250 watt pendants 16x16x7.5 with parabolic reflectors and...
I'm about to buy a new housing for the DI and add it at last stage. those smaller diameter ones for some reason the water does not flow evenly thru them and color changes quickly in the di. also a bypass is another item I want to add. I would never use tap water. even conditioned
The reactor looks good. Im not sure what to recomend on media. I use phosban and carbon in 2 seperate units. some guys like chemipure. Is there something you are trying to correct in your tank?
I've had my 2nd tank set up for 5 months and I'm still tweeking little problems which caused the salinity to fluctuate. If I had expensive corals in there its a good chance I would have lost them and that's heartbreaking. also one of the reasons some people give up.
came from MikeM he has 250's I have 150's
so it was used to more light not less and had bubbles in his tank.
but it sounds like this is normal behavior.
don't know about Jim but I have 2 cleaner shrimp and he never bothers them. also snails and hermits. same thing. Jim could have had small ornamental shrimp?