I'm at the point where I'm ready to do some experimenting with my radion schedule as I think I am roasting my coral. Comparing my schedule with the Coral Lab SPS AB+ schedule I notice a few things. I run a single Gen 3 XR30W on a 60 gallon cube tank.
1. They run higher levels of Green/Red. I've always had the assumption that higher levels of red/green will fuel algae and not be beneficial to zooxanthellae. I don't think increasing these will have much of a positive impact for me.
2. They run their cool white at 50%. I've been running mine at 100%. Visually I like the look (never been a fan of too blue) but maybe this is giving me too much PAR.
3. Their photoperiod is 9 hours with a consistent level for most. Mine is 14 hours with a steady incline and decline. I could always shorten this but I tend to feed at odd/inconsistent times so the longer period helps. I guess I could always have the start and end levels very low.
For PAR I borrowed an Apogee meter and got about 250-300 at the peak of my rockwork and about 200 or so midlevel. LPS have never been extremely happy for me so I'm starting with the lights to see if I can get things to improve.
1. They run higher levels of Green/Red. I've always had the assumption that higher levels of red/green will fuel algae and not be beneficial to zooxanthellae. I don't think increasing these will have much of a positive impact for me.
2. They run their cool white at 50%. I've been running mine at 100%. Visually I like the look (never been a fan of too blue) but maybe this is giving me too much PAR.
3. Their photoperiod is 9 hours with a consistent level for most. Mine is 14 hours with a steady incline and decline. I could always shorten this but I tend to feed at odd/inconsistent times so the longer period helps. I guess I could always have the start and end levels very low.
For PAR I borrowed an Apogee meter and got about 250-300 at the peak of my rockwork and about 200 or so midlevel. LPS have never been extremely happy for me so I'm starting with the lights to see if I can get things to improve.