Thanks for the Welcome CarmieJo, and GO BUCKS!!!
Typically when I clean the sponges I'll squeeze/rinse them in a bucket of siphoned tank water. If I top off the water I use room-temp filtered Brita water, ajd use tap water when doing water changes. Lighting is usually on 12 hours a day, sometimes more.
I'm not sure on the type of coral or actual pounds of
live rock, so I'll get pictures up today. Gotta run to class right now but I'll post them up shortly.