There are some places such as biota that raise them to eat pellets and other food and I did have one that naturally took to the feeder.
That is the only way I would consider it now. Even with my 60 gal it would compete with the wrasse
Even the 6 month supply has seemed to have jumped in price by $20 of recent. Bah.
Test alk daily 2x and all others 1x a day. Not sure if testing more alk per day gets me anything more.
What coverage size do you need? May be able to get a couple Red Sea 50/90s used or cheaper now that there are new models out there. There is a daylight setting and app to set it. I have two- they work great.
Even with solar you want to get some sort of short term UPS in that there can be a 2-3 second delay between power switch-so the whole system might reboot. Just get something that can handle the wattage as well - it has happened a couple times…
Glad outage as short -hope everything gets...