1. I am running the title setup from the title, and not sure what to set the light output to. I had it mixed (daylight/blue), both going to about 75%, corals placed around the tank, not doing too bad. I adjusted the blue to 85% max, daylight 0-20% depending on day.
Lights about 7 inches above surface.
2. After that, had an ammonia spike, had to take all corals and fish out (corals lived with natural light for about 3 weeks). Tank cycled again, ammonia down to zero, all good, corals and fish happy.
3. Corals back in the tank, same 80% blue, 0-20% daylight, acclimatization cycle 99 days, starting at 55%.
Even if the light is less than 6-8 weeks ago, the tank seems to have too much light and some corals are behaving interesting:
- cyphastrea, electro leptoseris, lightning tip leptastrea, psammocora are getting back their color, they seem to be doing amazing
- palythoa went from dark brown/purple, 1 inch polyps (before ammonia spike) to translucent, partially closed, half inch polyps
- zoas opened up at beginning of step 3, now they are not opening up as much
- goniopora slowly coming back to life
- my duncan whisker doesn't even care, he's very good, although does not extend as much
Questions:
1. Am I misplacing my corals? SPS placed in the top third section, doing amazing. Zoas placed at the bottom, will wait. Paly/gonio/duncan/some zoas - placed mid tank.
2. Is it too much light for the paly/gonio/zoas?
3. What would you set these lights at? I don't have a PAR meter.
4. Is PAR reading proportional with % intensity? If so, is the PAR chart on their website for 100% blue + 100% white?
Lights about 7 inches above surface.
2. After that, had an ammonia spike, had to take all corals and fish out (corals lived with natural light for about 3 weeks). Tank cycled again, ammonia down to zero, all good, corals and fish happy.
3. Corals back in the tank, same 80% blue, 0-20% daylight, acclimatization cycle 99 days, starting at 55%.
Even if the light is less than 6-8 weeks ago, the tank seems to have too much light and some corals are behaving interesting:
- cyphastrea, electro leptoseris, lightning tip leptastrea, psammocora are getting back their color, they seem to be doing amazing
- palythoa went from dark brown/purple, 1 inch polyps (before ammonia spike) to translucent, partially closed, half inch polyps
- zoas opened up at beginning of step 3, now they are not opening up as much
- goniopora slowly coming back to life
- my duncan whisker doesn't even care, he's very good, although does not extend as much
Questions:
1. Am I misplacing my corals? SPS placed in the top third section, doing amazing. Zoas placed at the bottom, will wait. Paly/gonio/duncan/some zoas - placed mid tank.
2. Is it too much light for the paly/gonio/zoas?
3. What would you set these lights at? I don't have a PAR meter.
4. Is PAR reading proportional with % intensity? If so, is the PAR chart on their website for 100% blue + 100% white?
