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I haven't messed around with the settings, I went with what was best recommended for LPS corals. Once I have corals in there, it'll probably change based on my reference.

I remved the cover that the tank came with. Basic hood. Do you have photos of your ramp?
Basically that light will grow coral no matter what. (Within reason) , so there’s a lot more flexibility than most think. Cool white is not the enemy. Lol.

I took a look through my pics and thread and didn’t find one.
Basically imagine a piece of paper that goes the width of the filter and extends down to below the water line. You can use plastic canvas or one of those super thin cutting board surfaces.
 
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Added corals today. coal miner zoa, gatorade chalice, spitfire favia, bullseye micromussa, and blasto neon

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3-month update! (4 days late, ops)

Update on what's in my tank:
  • 5 Astrea snails (1 or 2 died)
  • 3 mexican turbo snails
  • 2 tiger conches (first one died/have not seen/don't know where the shell is either
  • 3 dwarf cerths
  • 2 onyx clowns (orig. Joan & Rocket)
  • 1 fire fish (orig. Valentine)
  • 2 blue legged hermits
  • Bullseye micromussa
  • Coal miner zoa
  • Neon blasto
  • gatorade chalice
  • spitfire favia
New addition today (will upload pics when tank isn't so blue). I got more corals from the world wide coral sub box:
  • Bullseye micro (disappointed since my first box came with one)
  • pandora zoa
  • neon duncan (excited!!!)
  • hollywood stunner (very pretty. love it)
  • bob Marley zoa
I think that's all I've updated. Here's a photo from last week that I took. This does NOT have the 5 corals that came today, 3 ceriths, 2 hermits.
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Not the best photos, but the pandora paly opened up so beautifully. wish there was more color.
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it also ate the shrimp that was on it! :)
 
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wait.... World Wide Corals has a subscription box?!?! Oh jeez..... not sure I needed to know that!

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How's the chalice doing? I'm afraid to try one.
yes!!! for sacrificing not being able to pick the coral, they give you x2+ what you pay for the box. plus swag. i think i got about $300 in corals +swag, sampleel of coral amino, stickers for $100
 
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wait.... World Wide Corals has a subscription box?!?! Oh jeez..... not sure I needed to know that!

Following for sure....

How's the chalice doing? I'm afraid to try one.
I think they're doing pretty good. My first box gave me a gatorade chalice, which looks very very different from the hollywood stunner. They box seem happy and the gatorade chalice has grown a lot since receiving!
 

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