I think the Fluval light helped a bit. PAR is around 50-150 depending on depth. Before the Fluval, the Aqueon light was doing virtually zero, 30 tops and that is out of water very close to the light. The frags and anemones certainly didn't glow in Aqueon light the way they do now in Fluval light.
Fluval Marine & Reef 2.0 LED tested for PAR at direct closest range:
Pink: 200
Cyan: 100
Blue: 350
Purple: 150
Cold White: 950
From Petco:
The chocolate chip starfish died, around 3-5 days ago. It was perusing around the tank, as if look for where the water flow is and dwells there. But when I installed the return pipe outlet (duckbill nozzle) so that I could redirect the water a bit away from the corner of the tank (not sure if it's doing anything bad the the seal of the tank), the starfish left the spot where the flow's the strongest on the top side and perused elsewhere, mostly near the water surface, and then one day, it was laying flat upside down on the substrates with some tiny tentacles out, so I thought it was still alive and turned it around and confirmed that it should be alive when the legs retracted after touching it. But then it didn't move and it's top skin started to turn light color at some spots and I checked. I'm leaving it in the tank for now since it's small, until I've done my research about this. Maybe this will help promote bacteria that I need to cure the tank (I think it's bad idea, but I am totally clueless at this point).
The Kenya Tree (from a further Petco) has completely melted away after I placed it on the purple rock. Not sure if it was the light, the flow or the NH, NO levels.
From CoralsAnonymous:
The CA Ruby Red Pulsing Xenia didn't do anything much since day one, and now it's just probably gone, don't see much. I can't tell if I got cheated on this, although there were very small xenia but not pulsing for sure. Now's like all gone.
The Purple-Tip Hydra Bubble Tip Anemone appears to have melted...there's still some remnant but I don't think they are alive. Some tips do glow in blue light but seems to be in the melting process. This was not looking good even on the first day, appeared to be folding in two, and I tried to sit it on the white rock but it moved a bit and then had the strength to attach itself to the side of the white rock, but was already deteriorating. Not sure if I got cheated out of this one. Unless I misidentified this one, it was either too small to tell or that I just couldn't tell if it's like the one in the photos as if it was too dying to be recognized. I just checked their website and they are out of stock, so I am not sure if I got the last bad one.
The Green Long Tentacle Anemone's doing well so far and the Clarkiis are loving it. Took a while to find a few spots but I think it's settled now at the base of the purple rock, I did manually place it there.
Purple Corkscrew Long Tentacle Anemone seems to be doing well as well, I think it's not as purple as it's shown in the photos. More like brownish, unless I misidentified it with the Green Long Tentacle. It's functioning just like the Green Long Tentacle Anemone and settled itself under the white rock before the Green Long Tentacle.
The Ultra Mini Carpet Anemone has magnificent colors but it had me worry, I still do. It kept moving around on the white rocks, I then placed it on the purple rock and then it moved again couple nights later. Looks like it's settled at the back of the white rock for now. Sometimes I couldn't tell if it was melting.
The Green Pipe Organ doesn't seem to do well. Only a few pulps (like 2-3 pulps) opened up and very small, I don't really see much appendixes. With the blue light, the few, 2-3 tips do glow green, but just tips. I would need to learn more about these.
The free frags, about 4 polyps appear to be doing well, but not showing too healthy. My other frags from FirstChoice is bigger with more pulps and looks better.
From Aquaridise:
The Leather Finger doesn't look so good. The dark polyps are still coming out but may not be as extended as before and the coral is softer than before, can't really stand up.
Everything else appear to be doing well. I think one emerald crab molted as I saw its empty shell near the feather duster about a week ago and nothing's in the shell. I left the shell in the tank for the cycles to take over.
And this is the tank's condition as of now:
After calibrating the BHP03 Portable digital pH meter (hopefully I don't have to calibrate anytime soon as I would need to buy those powders again for calibration), the tank water is measured at 8.02.
Using the Seachem Laboratories Ammonia Alert 1 Year Monitor for the first time, I think it dropped from around 0.05 ppm to now 0.3 ppm-ish. Between alert and safe. I am going to verify this with the other tests just to make sure. But right now, I'm not going to worry much about Ammonia. I still have Seneye monitor to test this that I haven't done yet.
First time using Hanna Calcium Checker: 376 ppm (google says normal range should be: 380-450ppm) so I'll add some calcium again.
The pH meter calibration and rinsing and the Hanna Calcium checker were done using Walmart bought (82 cent per gallon) distilled water. My TDS meter tested the water at 1-2 ppm which I guess is good. So no need to use RO or deionized water.
I'll probably test Alkalinity and Phosphate tomorrow with the Hanna Checkers for the first time.
Hanna Checker Alkalinity for the first time use: 179 ppm