Coral help and wavemaker placement

[reefernoah]

I recently got these three corals under a NavaReef 65 light. It is a 10 gallon and I am worried about the corals health it had been 5 days since I got them. I have a HOB filter and the light runs at 30 blue 10 white. There is two SPS on the right and a LPS on the left. There is also a fire shrimp and damsel. HOB is on left side

 

[me & my baby]

How old is your tank and with your
Blues at 30 and white at 10 I don’t think your giving them enough light

 

[reefernoah]

How old is your tank and with tour blies at 30 and white at 10 I don’t think your giving them enough light

My tank is 10 months old. The tank is only 12in deep and the light is 10.5in above the water. The NavaReef has preset light setting and intensity in 5% increments they blue ones are Blue+white blue and a little white and deep blue. I am doing 30% intensity of the blue and a tiny bit of white since my controller stopped working.

 

[me & my baby]

Do you have access to a par meter . Also have you contacted Nicrew about the controller there CS was really good to me

 

[Marine Betta]

I recently got these three corals under a NavaReef 65 light. It is a 10 gallon and I am worried about the corals health it had been 5 days since I got them. I have a HOB filter and the light runs at 30 blue 10 white. There is two SPS on the right and a LPS on the left. There is also a fire shrimp and damsel. HOB is on left side

What are your parameters? It’s a little hard for me to see exactly what that first coral is (anacropora or a montipora of some sort?). The second one looks like a cyphastrea, and the last one is a blue sympodium.

Anacropora and montipora need strong flow like most sps, but they typically don’t need as much light. Mine grow just fine in moderate lighting (150-200 par), but you can acclimate them to higher par intensities (250+). I see polyp extension which is good. It may not be getting enough light right now.

Cyphastrea are not your typical sps. They like low-moderate light (50-100 par) low to moderate flow. I have mine in a cave where it gets about 60 par and very little flow.

Sympodium like moderate lighting (100-200 par), but they like flow (just as much as the majority of sps in my experience).

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I have a 55 watt light over a 15 gallon tank, 12" depth, the light is set at 85% intensity for mainly zoa's and mushrooms. You have a 65 watt light over over 12" depth set at 30%, personally I would increase your lights up to 50%-60%, but ultimately without a par meter its just a guess, but 30% sounds low.

 

[reefernoah]

I recently got these three corals under a NavaReef 65 light. It is a 10 gallon and I am worried about the corals health it had been 5 days since I got them. I have a HOB filter and the light runs at 30 blue 10 white. There is two SPS on the right and a LPS on the left. There is also a fire shrimp and damsel. HOB is on left side

What are your parameters? It’s a little hard for me to see exactly what that first coral is (anacropora or a montipora of some sort?). The second one looks like a cyphastrea, and the last one is a blue sympodium.

Anacropora and montipora need strong flow like most sps, but they typically don’t need as much light. Mine grow just fine in moderate lighting (150-200 par), but you can acclimate them to higher par intensities (250+). I see polyp extension which is good. It may not be getting enough light right now.

Cyphastrea are not your typical sps. They like low-moderate light (50-100 par) low to moderate flow. I have mine in a cave where it gets about 60 par and very little flow.

Sympodium like moderate lighting (100-200 par), but they like flow (just as much as the majority of sps in my experience).

The one all the way to the left is a Seiriatopora, the middle one i believe to be a yellow fever montipora, the last one is a star spike coral. I will test my parameters when I’m home. I do not have a PAR tester. Is the wavemaker placed correctly? It’s angled upward slightly toward the back

 

[reefernoah]

Do you have access to a par meter . Also have you contacted Nicrew about the controller there CS was really good to me

I don’t have access to a par meter. I’m getting a replacement in the mail soon

 

[Science/G]

These are the specs for the NavaReef 65 from Amazon. You might want to adjust your lights a bit.

 

[reefernoah]

These are the specs for the NavaReef 65 from Amazon. You might want to adjust your lights a bit.

With a 12 in deep tank and the light is 10.5 in above what intensity should I be running my lights at? 50-55? I have a controller coming this weekend