Ive had my led pendant for a few months now and really like the results,for the most part.
I seem to havea problem acclimating certain species to the lighting tho, even when I put them in the shade they still die,but it is not the water parameters because(example)
I just got 1 millipora,1 deepwater acropora, a favia, and a deepwater misc. coral.(didnt know it was deepwater when I bought it).
I put all of them in the same spot and the misc coral bleached within the first hour and the others looked fine. The next day the deepwater acro was solid tan(suppose to have bright purple tips) and the millipora started morphing from pink and green to tan, the favia still remained colorful.
My question is how exactly to you led users go about acclimating coral that were under t5's or mh to leds???
I have a 120w reefevo led pendant that hangs about 1.3 ft from the top of the water. My tank is 16 in deep, 48 long, and 13 wide.
Here is my plan to try to fix this for corals or would this be over kill?
Get 2 mh pendants and hang them on the left and right side of the tank about 1.3-1.6 ft from the water and put my led pendant in the center and hang it about 1/2 ft or 3/4 ft higher than the mh's,so my tank would still have that "shimmer"
I know these are not the best but would they work?
250W HQI Coralife Aqualight Professional Series Pendant on eBay!
My lfs has 2 of them and i can get each of them,including the ballasts, for $200.($100 each)
Here is a sketch of my idea(rockwork resembles actualy rockwork in tank)
I seem to havea problem acclimating certain species to the lighting tho, even when I put them in the shade they still die,but it is not the water parameters because(example)
I just got 1 millipora,1 deepwater acropora, a favia, and a deepwater misc. coral.(didnt know it was deepwater when I bought it).
I put all of them in the same spot and the misc coral bleached within the first hour and the others looked fine. The next day the deepwater acro was solid tan(suppose to have bright purple tips) and the millipora started morphing from pink and green to tan, the favia still remained colorful.
My question is how exactly to you led users go about acclimating coral that were under t5's or mh to leds???
I have a 120w reefevo led pendant that hangs about 1.3 ft from the top of the water. My tank is 16 in deep, 48 long, and 13 wide.
Here is my plan to try to fix this for corals or would this be over kill?
Get 2 mh pendants and hang them on the left and right side of the tank about 1.3-1.6 ft from the water and put my led pendant in the center and hang it about 1/2 ft or 3/4 ft higher than the mh's,so my tank would still have that "shimmer"
I know these are not the best but would they work?
250W HQI Coralife Aqualight Professional Series Pendant on eBay!
My lfs has 2 of them and i can get each of them,including the ballasts, for $200.($100 each)
Here is a sketch of my idea(rockwork resembles actualy rockwork in tank)