I love gyres. I use them for everything. They are easily one of the best pumps there is right now in my opinion.
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I love gyres. I use them for everything. They are easily one of the best pumps there is right now in my opinion.
Why ati doesn't give much par data.Hi,
Saltyfilmfolk you said :
"At 12in from the fixture it's close to 175 par per tube , youre close to 1000 par. At 12 in"
Whoah, i've 8x54w, so at 12" i've 1400 PAR ?? My fixture is at 7" from the water, with 20" of water's height. Do you think i could run only 8h of full tubes ? Thanks
Fred
I use the balling method to dose alk, mag, calc and trace elements. I prefer aquaforest for this purpose. I also carbon dose to keep nitrates at 2. I use red sea Nopox. Though they recommend not using GFO with the Nopox, I do use a little, as do many other reefers I've talked to. My Po4 was at .1, but when I added a small amount of GFO to my reactor, I was able to bring it down to .07. Better than nothing- I don't want a huge hair algae issue I test 1-2 times per week because I don't want my No3 or Po4 to bottom out.I would consider your phosophates to be okay. I wouldn’t go higher than that but I’d say you’re okay where you’re at. You don’t wanna totally strip phosphates out and lose color in corals. Also are you dosing alk and cal? Also your pumps are fine. Id say you have enough flow going through it. I have an mp10 and a gyre. I want to ask are you feeding your corals with benepets it fuel or acropower?
I use the balling method to dose alk, mag, calc and trace elements. I prefer aquaforest for this purpose. I also carbon dose to keep nitrates at 2. I use red sea Nopox. Though they recommend not using GFO with the Nopox, I do use a little, as do many other reefers I've talked to. My Po4 was at .1, but when I added a small amount of GFO to my reactor, I was able to bring it down to .07. Better than nothing- I don't want a huge hair algae issue I test 1-2 times per week because I don't want my No3 or Po4 to bottom out.
I broadcast feed reef roids once per week, and I spot feed my anemones and larger LPS corals at the same time.
My corals shouldn't be starving. I feed my tank inhabitants twice a day and with my SPS at the top, they are likely benefiting from that too.
I think my gyres are fine and I clean them every week with a toothbrush so they don't get clogged. I can't see it being a flow issue, though I'll keep my eyes open and monitor it just in case. My softer corals are blowing around quite nicely though and I haven't observed any dead spots.
I am fairly convinced it's the lighting schedule I've put this tank on. I'll make small changes until I'm ultimately at 8-10 hours full intensity and no actinic period. If I am still observing issues, I'll start tinkering with other things one by one till I find the solution. It aggravates me to see even a couple of my nicer sized colonies suffering without something obvious to pin it on
So this is where I ask the question again.... does actinic have par? I had read that it did not put out much, hence why I felt it was safe to run the actinics for so long. I made the decision because I work from home and I love that I can watch the fish as I work.I run an ATI 6 Bulb, All ATI bulbs. Hung 14” above water, top of rock is 7” blow surface.
Actinic and Blue + 10a-10p
Actinic, 2x Blue Plus, Coral Plus 1p-7p
Max PAR with two bulbs 140
Max PAR with all 6 bulbs is 370 top of rocks.
My acros color up and grow well with this light except when my phosphate goes crazy which I’ve been trying to steady out.
So this is where I ask the question again.... does actinic have par? I had read that it did not put out much, hence why I felt it was safe to run the actinics for so long. I made the decision because I work from home and I love that I can watch the fish as I work.
If you have a 2 channel like me, and you run 1 blue plus and 1 actinic on a separate channel for a par value of 140, I would assume that most of this is coming from the blue plus...???
Has anyone tested par with pure actinic? At this point, I'm simply curious if what I read was full of s**t or not. I'm still going to change up my schedule to see if I can get better growth....