AI sol timers and %

[ChrisB]

I just put in my first frags, 1 ricordia mushroom , green star polyp and a superman montipore. can someone help me with the timers and the white to blue and royal blue percentages? or give me thier settings. I am aslo worried about assorted hermit crabs that I got from reefcleaners. Will they try and eat any of these corals ?

 

[thirty5]

The hermits are fine, they are reef safe....

The %'s can not really be transferred from tank to tank, since they height of the fixture, how many you have, depth of tank and other things have to do with the %'s. Either you need to get a par meter and test them. Or set them at a lower setting and see how the corals respond.

 

[ChrisB]

1 ai sol , 33 inches from sand to AI.

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

I would start like 25% white 30% blue 35% royal and work from there up or down
A par meter would work the best if you can borrow one

 

[ecvernon]

I would start like 25% white 30% blue 35% royal and work from there up or down
A par meter would work the best if you can borrow one

i agrees with this reccomendation. the coral frags you listed do not really demand much light at all. those starting points should be good

 

[garys reef]

+1 start slow and SLOWLEY bring them up

 

[ChrisB]

Cool will do , just got home and red hermit ate my Superman monitpore . I have 2 bluelegs in there should I remove them also?

 

[garys reef]

i have a crap load of red leg and blue leasg hermits never ate any of my corals ????

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

Cool will do , just got home and red hermit ate my Superman monitpore . I have 2 bluelegs in there should I remove them also?

Something else going on??? Hermits don't eat corals
I had like 300 hermits in my frag tank with over 100 frags and not one died
Let's here your water perameters like alk,cal,mag,po4,ph,etc
Was your lighting on full blast because you could of melted the monti and I believe monti are hard to kill even with a lot of lighting

 

[ChrisB]

This hermit tore it up ill try and get a pic of him for id . Any site that i can id him on?

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[jdnumis]

+1 never heard of hermits eating coral. Unless there was die off already

 

[ChrisB]

This is the hermit I have Dardanus megistos . The tank has only one fish in it and all the aglae is gone the hermtis and cuc got rid of it all . So i think there was just not enough food and he wne to the coral. The place i got frag from had AI sols too and had them on 90% and i am on 40 so i dont not think its the lights. I left for 2 hours came home he was on coral crunching on it. So now he can live in my sump. Will blue legs turn on corals if there is not enough food? 1 more question on the post of the frag I bought I see a lil brown pest anenome should I take frag out and scrape him off?

 

[Killarsox]

Hermits don't eat corals

 

[ChrisB]

Yes I realize now he did not touch it it just looked like the top layer was gone when all polyps were in. Sorry for being a noob thanks for all the help I just got nervouse being its my 1st corals popped my cherri.