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Here are my setting for the noopsyche k7 v3. I think I will tag a few people just to hear everyone's thoughts and adjust from there. I went with the lps preset settings and adjusted just a few to start out with.

Time a. b. c. d. e. f.
9am 0%---------------------
10a. 0% 10% 10% 3% 0% 10%
11a. 0. 20. 20. 5. 1. 20
12a. 1. 30. 30. 10. 2. 30
5p. 1. 30. 30. 10. 2. 30
6p. 0. 20. 20. 5. 1. 20
7p. 0. 10. 10. 3. 0. 10
8p. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0

What does everyone think?
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Here are my setting for the noopsyche k7 v3. I think I will tag a few people just to hear everyone's thoughts and adjust from there. I went with the lps preset settings and adjusted just a few to start out with.

Time a. b. c. d. e. f.
9am 0%---------------------
10a. 0% 10% 10% 3% 0% 10%
11a. 0. 20. 20. 5. 1. 20
12a. 1. 30. 30. 10. 2. 30
5p. 1. 30. 30. 10. 2. 30
6p. 0. 20. 20. 5. 1. 20
7p. 0. 10. 10. 3. 0. 10
8p. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0

What does everyone think?
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Looks nice
 

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Here are my setting for the noopsyche k7 v3. I think I will tag a few people just to hear everyone's thoughts and adjust from there. I went with the lps preset settings and adjusted just a few to start out with.

Time a. b. c. d. e. f.
9am 0%---------------------
10a. 0% 10% 10% 3% 0% 10%
11a. 0. 20. 20. 5. 1. 20
12a. 1. 30. 30. 10. 2. 30
5p. 1. 30. 30. 10. 2. 30
6p. 0. 20. 20. 5. 1. 20
7p. 0. 10. 10. 3. 0. 10
8p. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0

What does everyone think?
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are you augmented with T5 hybrid? If not, this is REAL low and you may starve your photo corals. I have settings that are higher than this and I have 4 x 54 T5s going at the same time.

Obviously, the only real way to know is using a par meter..but just looking at the numbers..very on the low side.
 
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are you augmented with T5 hybrid? If not, this is REAL low and you may starve your photo corals. I have settings that are higher than this and I have 4 x 54 T5s going at the same time.

Obviously, the only real way to know is using a par meter..but just looking at the numbers..very on the low side.


I'm not, just using the noopsyche light. I was worried starting higher I would hurt what I have. But this is why I tagged you and others to get a better understanding of these lights. Currently the coral I have are

Red monti cap
Duncan
2 different zoas
Frogspawn
Clam
Campfire feather duster
 

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I like B, C, and D. F has green which can grow algae and also leaves green light patches on the sand and rock in my tank. A is white so that's more for your liking and E is red. They need some red and green but from my understanding it's the blue and UV that do better for coral health and growth.
 
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Tank is looking great! Fishys and coral are happy. I quit using my skimmer and all my algae dissapeared. I plan to just use the skimmer for maybe an hour after feeding for about an hour and see if the algae stays away
 

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Tank is looking great! Fishys and coral are happy. I quit using my skimmer and all my algae dissapeared. I plan to just use the skimmer for maybe an hour after feeding for about an hour and see if the algae stays away
Sounds like low nutrients! Keep it up!
 
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Welp lost a fishy. Not sure why. It looked happy and healthy and eating yesterday and found it dead today. Other clown looks good and healthy. Wondering if it could just be from the petco I'm buying it from. Parameters all look good. Nitrite @10 phosphate @.25 no ammonia I just dont understand. My last tanks never lost 1 fish now 4 years later cant keep poop alive.

Gona waiting it out to see how the remaining 1 fish does b4 I add anything else.

All coral look great tho. Been uping the light a little bit at a time
 

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Welp lost a fishy. Not sure why. It looked happy and healthy and eating yesterday and found it dead today. Other clown looks good and healthy. Wondering if it could just be from the petco I'm buying it from. Parameters all look good. Nitrite @10 phosphate @.25 no ammonia I just dont understand. My last tanks never lost 1 fish now 4 years later cant keep poop alive.

Gona waiting it out to see how the remaining 1 fish does b4 I add anything else.

All coral look great tho. Been uping the light a little bit at a time
Could be. I've always had a 50/50 shot with Petco fish.
 
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I got my coral from the Joe's summer sale. Everything looks good just stressed.
I got...
Superman paly
Rainbow avatar cloves
Flame thrower cyphastrea
And a goni

This morning I noticed the avatar cloves have a small aptasia so I'm gona have to take care of that soon. Not sure if I'm just gona pull it out and throw sum glue on it or mayb go to petco and see if they have a peppermint shrimp.

Also hopefully the goni looks better today that seemed the most stressed
 

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I got my coral from the Joe's summer sale. Everything looks good just stressed.
I got...
Superman paly
Rainbow avatar cloves
Flame thrower cyphastrea
And a goni

This morning I noticed the avatar cloves have a small aptasia so I'm gona have to take care of that soon. Not sure if I'm just gona pull it out and throw sum glue on it or mayb go to petco and see if they have a peppermint shrimp.

Also hopefully the goni looks better today that seemed the most stressed
I like Joe's Avatar Cloves and the Flamethrower. Let's see a pic of the Goni!!!
 
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So far it looks like the goni is opening up. Not sure about the flame thrower this is my first ever cyphastrea but it looks cool! The cloves aren't completely open but I'm wondering if that's cause of the aptasia. And the superman paly is happy this should take pretty good.

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The only filter I have is yellow but it gets a better pic then without the filter
 

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If you're using your phone you can try putting it in manual mode (if available) and boost the white balance as high as it goes (mine goes to 7500k).
 

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