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Hello,
I am relatively new to the hobby and I am trying to understand the best lighting settings for my tank.
I have a Red Sea Reefer 170 deluxe (34 gallon display and 9 gallon sump) and it came with the Hydra 26 HD led lighting system. I've done a lot of Googling and still do not have a straight answer on what would be healthy settings for my tank. I've heard that a lot of UV is bad but then I see people with it cranked up to 100. I've heard deep red and green cause algae growth and see people with it turned up to 30. Does anyone know what a safe setting is for this tank? And how long to leave it on/ramp/decline.
Tank contains two clowns, a red firefish, a cleaner shrimp, hermits, conch snails, two torch coral, a bubble, hammer coral, frog spawn, leather mushroom and an anemone.
There is purigen and chemi-pure blue in the filter sock. I also a bubble magus curve 5 protein skimmer and B-ionic calcium/alkalinity is dosed 10 ml daily as recommended.
I will upload pictures in the morning when the lights are on. I have included my current settings.
Thank you for the help!
I am relatively new to the hobby and I am trying to understand the best lighting settings for my tank.
I have a Red Sea Reefer 170 deluxe (34 gallon display and 9 gallon sump) and it came with the Hydra 26 HD led lighting system. I've done a lot of Googling and still do not have a straight answer on what would be healthy settings for my tank. I've heard that a lot of UV is bad but then I see people with it cranked up to 100. I've heard deep red and green cause algae growth and see people with it turned up to 30. Does anyone know what a safe setting is for this tank? And how long to leave it on/ramp/decline.
Tank contains two clowns, a red firefish, a cleaner shrimp, hermits, conch snails, two torch coral, a bubble, hammer coral, frog spawn, leather mushroom and an anemone.
There is purigen and chemi-pure blue in the filter sock. I also a bubble magus curve 5 protein skimmer and B-ionic calcium/alkalinity is dosed 10 ml daily as recommended.
I will upload pictures in the morning when the lights are on. I have included my current settings.
Thank you for the help!