Lighting acclamation

[Thomas Wieczorek]

So I just "stimulated" the economy by taking uncle Sam's gift and buying myself really really good lights...the ecotec radions XR15 G5 pro. 2 of them for my 120g tank. I'll be mounting them using the aquatic life t5 hybrid fixture. The left and right side of the t5 will have atinic lights. 1 guissmen super atinic and 1 ati atinic. Right now I'm running a 6 bulb t5 fixture. I have mostly lps and some softies. I also have a couple sps (monti cap) (birds nest) I have a chalice, torches. Hammers. Duncan's. A big zoa garden. And a couple favias too. My question is how do I set the radions? How do i do an acclamation? What percentage? How many days? Intensity? (All within the "lps/softie" template ) and after the acclamation what would you run your lights at keeping in mind the t5's being there. THANKS!!

 

[Hydrored]

I use a Par meter when installing new lights, what is your current PAR values? For a 120 start with 31% on AB+

 

[Thomas Wieczorek]

I had a seneye par meter that I sold,...last i checked i had 80 par at the sand bed in the corners and 150 - 200 around the top of the rock work.

 

[Thomas Wieczorek]

Any other responses to help out. Maybe some people familiar with working the new radions?

 

[deahttub]

Any other responses to help out. Maybe some people familiar with working the new radions?

So i have had my g5’s up and running a week. TSA reccomended that i start with the same par my t5’s were outputting which on my 220 was 80% on the AB+. Because im overly cautious, i started at 60 and am using the acclimation mode to 80 over a 28 day period...so far so good....

 

[Thomas Wieczorek]

So i have had my g5’s up and running a week. TSA reccomended that i start with the same par my t5’s were outputting which on my 220 was 80% on the AB+. Because im overly cautious, i started at 60 and am using the acclimation mode to 80 over a 28 day period...so far so good....

I have a mixed reef with mostly lps and a few sps (monti caps and bitdsnest.) Also I have 2 large island rocks of sofite corals (pulsing exina and green star polyp) those are very beautiful and their equal off center "center peices" I started my lights on lps/softie template and am acclamating over 10 days to 35% my 10 days should be just about up. I'm scared to try the ab+ lol. Also I have these g5's in the aquatic life hybrid that I run 3 guiessmen super atinic and 1 blue atinic. I've kept those off and plan to add one hour of t5 every week till I reach a mac of 5 hours......side note when i first got the lights I ran them 40% straight away and used the t5's 5 hours daily and my exina rock had multiple branches bleach. It looks to be recovering now that I cut everything back