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I have been having the hardest time dialing in my 175w sanrise light. Ive burned coral and cannot get it set correctly. Its currently 12 inches avove a 16 inch deep cube. Any body having success with these?
 

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Don't take the whites over prob 20 or 30%
The blue can hit prob 40 or 50 maybe. Depending if your running high alk low nutints.

IMO if you can hit about 400 par or so at the top of that tank for sps your in the zone 200 to 300 for Med and low light.

With a Lux meter 400 par is about 26000 lux.
 
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The tank is 24g cube. 16t x18x14 display.Right now i have them at 5 white, 26 blue, 26violet. Do you think this is the cause of my corals melting away. Not enough light? I thought it was due to alk spike. But im not sure if it really did spike. I just cant read test kit colors. Stopped dosing anything and relied on wc only.
 

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The tank is 24g cube. 16t x18x14 display.Right now i have them at 5 white, 26 blue, 26violet. Do you think this is the cause of my corals melting away. Not enough light? I thought it was due to alk spike. But im not sure if it really did spike. I just cant read test kit colors. Stopped dosing anything and relied on wc only.

What's your water pramaters?
 
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Stopped testing. Gave up on trying and determine if im at the test end color or not. Only test now alk which ia now orange instead of pink. Has been at 9.1 (maybe) for 2 weeks now with no wc
 

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The tank is 24g cube. 16t x18x14 display.Right now i have them at 5 white, 26 blue, 26violet. Do you think this is the cause of my corals melting away. Not enough light? I thought it was due to alk spike. But im not sure if it really did spike. I just cant read test kit colors. Stopped dosing anything and relied on wc only.

What's your water pramaters?
Ther is a whole thread I belive about this.
Can you link it here?
 

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