Impulse buying....

its says like 20 watts equavilent to 100 watts, the 100 watts is that of a incadscent bulb.
but the equation of 4wpg is based on flourscent bulbs, or more efficent lighting like t5 or halide.

incadscent only produces around 15 lumens(light measurement)per watt, while flourscent does 60 lumens per watt.

halide does 80 lumens per watt
t5 does 90 lumens per watt.

as you can see all lighting the 4wpg equation is based on is atleast 4x more effiecent then incadscent.

so right now you only have 2 wpg of flourscent lighting on the 10 gallon.
and compact flourscent( same lumens as plain flourscent) is the weakest of acceptable aquarium lighting

 

what type of lighting do you have in there



also my lumens per watt explianation is not the end all rule when i comes to lighting, as par is the real important value, but that changes dramatically between different bulbs not so much the fixtures.

 

Just commented on your other post...

I was basing the math off just my T5s. I over drive 8- 46.5" T5s to 95 watts each and also have 2- 250w Metal halides come on mid day for (was 3 but) now 1 hour. I have plenty of light from 760 watts of T5 so I really don't need the metal halides and I am thinking of not even running them when I switch everything over to my 72 bow front. But for now, the 760 watts is plenty, if not too much for my life.

 

yes the anemone will be fine in your display tank barring bad water, of complications with other livestock

 

Do you mean he will be fine EVEN IF I have bad water conditions?
or that because of too much light the other corals will make my water conditions bad from die off?

I can't keep an anenome alive in my DT for some reason. I can grow any SPS and LPS and the only thing I can never keep is an anenome. I've tried BTA, LTA, Seabe and rock... they all turn to mush.

 

no if you have bad water quality it will not work. he was just saying the lighting is fine.

 

no i said

so that means those arent problems so you have good water and no complications.

the complications refered more to the corals and anemones stinging each other or non reef safe fish eating the anemone

 

Ah ha said the blind man to his deaf son! I get it! Done, it's moved to the DT and I dug into the sand for his foot. He was already attatched to the rock in the 10 gallon tank under the 50/50. So I had to peel it off.

I guess I'll prey this one makes it and keep reading on feeding schedules and up keep. I've read to feed them every 2 days, which I was doing for the ones that died. My water has 99% of the time been pristine. A small pop in phos (.5) about a month or 2 ago but that's gone now. I am about to add cheato to that fuge for preventative maint. of that but haven't got around to it.

 

I replace it where the mushrooms used to be that the Occ's were hosting so it isn't near any other coral to sting it. As I said, water is fine and lighting is fine... no unsafe reef fish due to it being a sps and lps tank.

THANK YOU FOR THE REPLIES!

 

Move slow

How long have you had it in your fug. days? hours? weeks?

Yes move it to your DT but it would be nice to have you slowly get him use to the high lighting of your DT, with saying that i mean you need to put him a shaded part of your DT, under a rock 1/2 way at least. If he moves deeper under the rock let him be. from what i hear round here he will not like them high lights right away.

Good luck,
Mike

PS. I hear feeding 3 times a week is good, and to feed them different things