Do I have a Lobo issue?

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Hello. I bought my first LPSa week ago. Overall I think the color looks good but I am concerned about his shape. At times it looks fully filled out, but often in the last couple days it looks like one side is a bit crushed in. It will be in this crushed in state for several hours, and then later I notice it looks full again. Is this a flow issue? Any thoughts? I'm attaching 2 pics. One with the normal blue lighting, and one with only white light. Thanks for the input!

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The tank is a ProStar V90 - 63 gallon display area with ~13 gallon sump. I am using 2 AI Prime 16 lights. Turned up heavy on UV, blues, Royal blue and violet. Next to nothing on Green and red and mid way on white. I don't have a par meter, but I used these settings per an AI prime video I watched from BRS. The specific s are as follows:
uv - 141%
Violet - 151 %
Royal blue - 118%
Blue - 118%
Green - 16%
Red - 15%
White- 50%
I ran the lights at half this for the first week to acclimate.

Water is as follows:
temp - 78.6
salinity - 1.025
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 2.8
Phosphate - .02
Alk - 8.12
Mag - 1460
PH - 7.8
 

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