Funkness

How often will their heads come out? They are all closed on this one

The heads will come out during feeding you can train it to open up during the day

Mine didn't open for the longest time before I realized they only opened up at night. I started feeding them pellet fish food and they grew fast

I'm using my T5 for supplement only for 3 halides so I'm using ATI actinics. May adjust with some blue plus. Used a mix of ATI bulbs in the old tank.

Im using 4xt5 for primary lighting over the zoa tanks. Blue+, Purple+, Coral+, True Actinic.

Very blue, but I like it that way, and the reproduction of my zoas doubled since installing the Coral+ bulb.

are the coral + the whiter of the colors?

In those size tanks I would take the reverse path. Carefully siphon all the water out and save it. Carefully remove the rock and livestock. Then just remove all the crushed coral. Replace with dry never been used or pre-seeded live sand, refill with the water you removed, and you should be good to go. Treat it just like a tank move.

Whats the best type of dry sand to use

I like the caribsea special grade reef sand. Just rinse it a lot. A ton of dist in the dry version.

Can't figure out why you guys are spending so much money on MH/LED's. I have tried T5/MH and my tank now looks the best it has ever looked under VHO

well lets say i decide to go with t5 detup what would be my best option for a 60inch long and 30 inch deep and 18 inch wide tank hmm

Good choice!! I myself have an ATI Sunpower 6 bulb fixture.

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I suppose you might be able to use something like the ones on the Eheim filters? idk where to get those though

Yay!

Try to reset it

It didn't get switched to NTM did it?

A pile of rock here, a pile of rock there, another pile of rock over there. NO! Over THERE I said!

i thinkbi am going to make a square on the floor and build from there

I have lot's of my hydraulic cement left over if you want to try some

What ATO did you go with (and why that one?)

on from autotopoff.com simply and effective

Go with the AI vega

I always get the same length as the tank

Same here. Shorter lights would limit some of the corals you could keep on the edges of the tank.

I would go with the shorter. It's usually cheaper and your only losing 6" on each side which is what lens will give you. Plus it'll limit the light noise coming out of your tank.

go full (if by lights you mean 0-10v LEDs or other controllable mode pumps)