Also, back to your skimmer question, that pump is not going to cause heat issues. Most people run skimmers rated for 2-3 times their tank volume anyway, more efficient. Crank that thing up, I would say that skimmer is actually perfect for a 75 gallon system.
Can I overskim
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You have a very valid point that should be considered. If you are skimming out the nutrition source for certain species of coral - you are working against yourself. In some of my bigger systems with reefs, I'll shut off the filtration to feed just to make sure I'm not filtering out what I'm putting in for them.
The whole over skimming to the point where you lose coral food thing is over rated.
Feed your fish and corals well...and turn off your skimmer while you do so...you wont run into any issues.
Very hard to overskim IMO. I have a heath pod and micro invert population in my tank as well and my skimmer is overdriven and rated for 4x my system volume.
Feed your fish and corals well...and turn off your skimmer while you do so...you wont run into any issues.
Very hard to overskim IMO. I have a heath pod and micro invert population in my tank as well and my skimmer is overdriven and rated for 4x my system volume.
back to lighting. If i have a fixture from aquatrader
http://www.aquatraders.com/Odyssea-48in-Metal-Halide-T5-Aquarium-Light-p/54248.htm
it has 2 250 watt mh lights for a total of 608 watts. Is that going to be too much for a 75. I dont want to restrict my stock options. I am planning on keeping things like clams and sps. i also found an 8 bulb t5 fixture for a grand total of 400 watts.
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/store...es/sunlight-supply-tek-light-t5-fixtures.html
http://www.aquatraders.com/Odyssea-48in-Metal-Halide-T5-Aquarium-Light-p/54248.htm
it has 2 250 watt mh lights for a total of 608 watts. Is that going to be too much for a 75. I dont want to restrict my stock options. I am planning on keeping things like clams and sps. i also found an 8 bulb t5 fixture for a grand total of 400 watts.
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/store...es/sunlight-supply-tek-light-t5-fixtures.html
The Tek fixtures are nice. Do not buy anything made by odyssea! There is a reason their stuff is so cheap, I have heard many a tale of early failure, malfunctions, and in two cases fire.
A properly fed Coral doubles its growth rate, period. I read some lovely articels by dr. Ron Shimak and Tim Wijgerde on the subject, Ron covered the proper feeding (or at least the concept of it) and Tim the growth rate of corals (his phd is in coral reproduction, cant remember if he has it yet or if hes still working on it). I found them quite informative and illuminating, in particular how a 1 cubic inch of seriatopora caliendrum (volume of space taken up... so say 1 branch of about .5 inch wide by 2 inch long to give you an idea) can consume upwards of 10000 artemia in 15 min, so imagin how much you have to feed a large tank filled with branching corals like this? Turning a skimmer off for 15 min, and squirting a handful of brines into the tank just isnt going to cut it. Yes you can keep corals under those conditions... but for best results you need alot more then that.
Links to both articles
Ron's http://coralmagazine.coverleaf.com/coral/20101112#pg73
Tim's http://coralmagazine.coverleaf.com/coral/20101112#pg87
Links to both articles
Ron's http://coralmagazine.coverleaf.com/coral/20101112#pg73
Tim's http://coralmagazine.coverleaf.com/coral/20101112#pg87
Wow these articles are super interesting. Thank you for posting that, I honestly never thought about coral specific food. It's stuff like that... So obvious, but only in hindsight. Out of curiosity and need for personal feed back what is your filtrtion system. I was thinking if I ran tha skimmer only at night and fed in the morning the water quality issue would be eased and the corals would be able to feed.
Mine? Well currently inbetween systems (because of school), usually I only run a DSB and an over large Algea scrubber (overlarge within reason), basically I do my absolute best to simulate a natural environment. I count on countless micro inverts (zooplanton of assorted sizes, both swimming and substraight living), phyoplancton, micro-worms (sand/rock dwelling) etc to eat big dead stuff (by big i mean small but not water soluable), and count on the phytoplaction (again) and macros for the disolved organics. If your interested in a true DSB, I can throw up a link (another atricle by dr. Ron Shimak) quite informative as well. My water isn't "crystal clear" as so many people like, but I enjoy watching the zooplancton swim and get eaten by fish and what not, but thats just me. Essentially I like to have little swimming things mixed in with biggish swimming things mixed with fish/corals
lol.