Critique my modified saxby schedule

Jake_the_reefer · Oct 11, 2019

I decided to modify my david saxby schedule on my ai prime 20g tall Lps dominant tank with lower whites 0 red and green. I am a total noob to lighting so how does something like this look? Light is 8 inches from surface. Should I tweak anything? Lower anything?

reef lover · Oct 25, 2019

I would think it matters more how the corals respond to it rather than how it looks. Do they like it?

Butuz · Oct 25, 2019

Agree with the above. I also think you will find CW at 32% to be very high. When I ran Saxby, I was constantly battling algea and burning corals. I switched to modified AB+, works great. I also like the look of a slightly blue range vs white, makes the colors pop up. My build thread below has the setting screenshots, PAR etc.

Jake_the_reefer · Oct 25, 2019

Butuz said:
Agree with the above. I also think you will find CW at 32% to be very high. When I ran Saxby, I was constantly battling algea and burning corals. I switched to modified AB+, works great. I also like the look of a slightly blue range vs white, makes the colors pop up. My build thread below has the setting screenshots, PAR etc.

I'm thinking the corals are liking this setting. All my zoas and candy cane coral have been closed since the beginning of my dino fight. (They weren't opening well before the dino was a problem in the first place) they are now open and look great. The only thing that isnt happy is a birds nest sps I decided to pick up for 5$ but I think its non light related, it's going through rtn or severe bleaching (even tho it's in a lower light area) within 3 days of owning probably poor acclimation on my part. I may lower the white a bit probably by half because algae is increasing which was great with the dino but now I want it gone.

I'm going to get side tracked about the birdsnest... It probably died due to it being so sensitive and going through a very very strong dipping. The frag had dino on it and I did not want to deal with it again so I dipped it in my normal dip like usual but followed up immediately with a dilute peroxide dip to kill any sort of dino or algae on it. The death is probably not light related due to it being in the tank for 3 days.