What else can I do?

[coolhandgoose]

What's a good spectrum bulb to use for growing cheato. Right now I have a 13watt cfl at 2700k.

[Proteus]

I use a 6500k bulb

[coolhandgoose]

What wattage?

[Proteus]

I think it's equivalent to a 100w. I got it at Walmart.

[coolhandgoose]

Here is a full tank shot, sorry for the blueness.



I think it's looking much cleaner so far.

A pic of some brown clove polyps, a couple of leathers, my maxi min, duncans starting to open up and a fox coral.



This is an acan I've had for awhile that's taken quite a beating and is now on the road to recovery.



I'll post some more later, gotta go shopping.

[coolhandgoose]

Here's a pic of the sump, the skimmer is starting to produce skimate again.



My yellow tang looking a little skinny. Need to work on fattening him up. I feed emerald entree and Pacifica plankton usually every two days. And maybe once a week I rip off some nori that he eats. What else can I feed or should I be doing?



I also keep moving the fox coral around, it's hard to find a low flow spot in my tank.

[Proteus]

I really liked the new era grazing pucks. All my fish would eat it

[George]

Originally Posted by coolhandgoose

My yellow tang looking a little skinny. Need to work on fattening him up. I feed emerald entree and Pacifica plankton usually every two days. And maybe once a week I rip off some nori that he eats. What else can I feed or should I be doing?

Is that all you feed the tang, every 2 days? no wonder it's a little bit thin. Tang is a grazing machine in the wild and it is constantly searching for food. You should feed it every day and have some kind of algae sheet (nori) or algae block in the tank most of the day for it to graze. I know this will produce a lot of waste but that's a price you pay for keeping tangs. Increase your nutrient exports.

[coolhandgoose]

Originally Posted by Titus99

I really liked the new era grazing pucks. All my fish would eat it

I just watched a video on those, they are really cool, I'm going to look at getting some. Thanks for the suggestion.

[coolhandgoose]

Originally Posted by George

Is that all you feed the tang, every 2 days? no wonder it's a little bit thin. Tang is a grazing machine in the wild and it is constantly searching for food. You should feed it every day and have some kind of algae sheet (nori) or algae block in the tank most of the day for it to graze. I know this will produce a lot of waste but that's a price you pay for keeping tangs. Increase your nutrient exports.

I will definitely up the feeding.