165w led box or upgrade, also maybe issues?

[Madmanmadrid]

**** didnt even think about asking about lids since I don't run them ha. Yeah itll cut down par to tank especially when they form water droplets on them from evap. It happens.

 

[Aquatic Bobs]

I have a 75 gallon mixed Reef and two vpar Spectra lights. I run my blues at 90% all around And the whites at 65% on one side and 70% on the side with the SPS. I've had my Coral in for 2 months now and everything seems to be doing pretty good I'm thinking you need to brighten up a little bit but slowly because I know especially SPS corals have a hard time with major light adjustments. Not sure if this helps at all but seems to be working pretty good for me to this point :-)

By the way are you feeding your corals at all and if so what method are you using?

 

[Oaken]

I have a 75 gallon mixed Reef and two vpar Spectra lights. I run my blues at 90% all around And the whites at 65% on one side and 70% on the side with the SPS. I've had my Coral in for 2 months now and everything seems to be doing pretty good I'm thinking you need to brighten up a little bit but slowly because I know especially SPS corals have a hard time with major light adjustments. Not sure if this helps at all but seems to be working pretty good for me to this point :-)

By the way are you feeding your corals at all and if so what method are you using?

Reef roids 3x a week pump off and circulate with wavemaker for 15 mins. That's really high levels of light I feel like id nuke my tank

 

[Aquatic Bobs]

I still think it would help to turn the lights up, corals will often feed and grow on white lights and the blue lights are more of a show then for growth.... someone correct me if I'm wrong

 

[Oaken]

I still think it would help to turn the lights up, corals will often feed and grow on white lights and the blue lights are more of a show then for growth.... someone correct me if I'm wrong

Interesting maybe someone will come in

 

[Aquatic Bobs]

What's the update on your situation?

 

[Aquatic Bobs]

All your water parameters sound good and I've been researching your situation because I have the same lights and I still think you should turn your light power up a little bit.

 

[Oaken]

All your water parameters sound good and I've been researching your situation because I have the same lights and I still think you should turn your light power up a little bit.

I am slowly turning them up actually. I went from 30 to 38% blue tin 7 days gonna go up 4 % next week

 

[Oaken]

All your water parameters sound good and I've been researching your situation because I have the same lights and I still think you should turn your light power up a little bit.

Heres my params

 

[Aquatic Bobs]

Good job keeping your alkalinity within 1.0 of each testing. Stable water parameters can make a world of a difference. I've seen people with poor water conditions have stable parameters and are still successful. You should be seeing good growth as well, I really think turning the lights up will help make a difference overall :-) what's the condition of your corals? Are they still bleaching?

 

[Aquatic Bobs]

 

[Flippers4pups]

Been reading the whole thread. What's your N03 and P04? Never mind, got it.

 

[Aquatic Bobs]

He posted it a couple posts up from here. Its averaging PO4 .25 and NO3 15 I think he said

 

[dantimdad]

I still think it would help to turn the lights up, corals will often feed and grow on white lights and the blue lights are more of a show then for growth.... someone correct me if I'm wrong

Actually it's mostly the opposite. Let me explain

White light is comprised of all the colors of light. It's a visual thing not really an energy thing

Yes, there are peaks we need in some white light depending on the phosphors used. What we should be focusing on is from around 400nm up to about 525nm for the bulk of chlorophyll points. We also need some red thrown in but it has been proven that it's not as high of a need as other peaks.

So, you can focus on more violets and blues even into lower greens to get the majority of the light our corals need

Hope this helps

 

[Aquatic Bobs]

So better to run higher blues than whites? But you still need both right? This is the viparspectra light

 

[Flippers4pups]

Tank does look very young. Nems can loose color with not enough light.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Blue spectrum is very important for coral health. White is important, but not as much.

 

[Oaken]

Blue spectrum is very important for coral health. White is important, but not as much.

Might explain a lot of the nems can lose color with not enough but odd enough the nems started gaining a bit if color when I turned it down but it was a at 15 white now 1.

 

[Aquatic Bobs]

So you're saying you're anemone started gaining color again when you turned the lights down?