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Just want to make sure I'm treating my little guys right. These are my specification.

56 Gallon tank.
Adequate live rock per pound.
Cycled water, 5 months old.
Coral life skimmer rated for 90 gallon tank.
Penn Plax Cascade Canister Filter for 65 gallon tank.
Ammonia .25 or less.
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0
300w LED description below.
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I can't hang the light so I have the blue at 80% from 7-9am then I turn my whites on at 30%. Then I turn my whites off at 5pm and turn off my blues at 7pm to keep the 12 hour light rotation. I feed everything every 3 days with some calcium for the corals.

Please correct me on anything I'm doing wrong and stuff that can help me make my little guys happy to grow and blossom.

2 clown fish
Yellow tang
3 sand sifting starfish
3 turbo snails
2 cardinals
5 hermit crabs
Fire shrimp
Toadstool leather
Pulse coral
Torch coral
Long tentacle anemone
Carpet anemone
Rose bubble tip anemones
Light blue bubble tip anemone
Assorted Zoas,
Hammer branch coral.
 

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My filter and more pics around the tank. Thank you for your time trying to help me! I'm new to the hobby so any advice will help!!!!!
 

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Everything looks to be doing well, and only recommendation I would have is to keep up with the maintenance on the canister filter and maybe adjust the Blue's down a bit to around 50-60% overall max. That's a whole lot of Blue and will probably find better color and polyp size at a lower intensity.


Cheers, Todd
 

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I would ditch the canister filter. Good live rock,skimming, and circulation Is all you need. canister filters will cause Issues If you don't maintain them often.
Better to remove unless you want to run media through It such as carbon.
 

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