Hi
I have had 3 reef aquariums and recently bought a Red Sea 170.
I transferred live rock plus 4 fish and 20 plus LPS corals some large trachies gold hammers, large red cats eye and a few acans. Also transferred the AI HD light.
All was good.
As I never had a sump before I got the owner of my LFS to come out and talk me through the operation. While he was there he changed the light settings from blues 50% to 80% . As it was a larger tank and he was very experienced I thought it was ok.
After a few days all the LPS corals started to shut up and not eat some more than others. I did not know what was wrong all my water parameters were in the correct ranges so I was really worried.
The hammers were worst and started to die first then dead patches on the trachies. I then realised you fool the light settings.
I had been searching for weeks on the web for ideas BRS was the only site that I found that mentioned in any way lighting.
The dead patches appeared on trachies and I pulled them all out.
The moral of the story lights are dangerous, use them carefully and change them slowly and for LPS 50% blues and no more
I have put a new hammer in and it did not like it so I have taken it out and I am doing a rebuild of my tanks and taking out all the rocks and cleaning them for any dead LPS flesh and then will start again.
For the experts in lighting can we please have some meaningful insights , so fellow reefers don’t have to go through this. Also no need to mention brown jelly, rapid/ slow tissue necrosis etc checked all and negative.
I have had 3 reef aquariums and recently bought a Red Sea 170.
I transferred live rock plus 4 fish and 20 plus LPS corals some large trachies gold hammers, large red cats eye and a few acans. Also transferred the AI HD light.
All was good.
As I never had a sump before I got the owner of my LFS to come out and talk me through the operation. While he was there he changed the light settings from blues 50% to 80% . As it was a larger tank and he was very experienced I thought it was ok.
After a few days all the LPS corals started to shut up and not eat some more than others. I did not know what was wrong all my water parameters were in the correct ranges so I was really worried.
The hammers were worst and started to die first then dead patches on the trachies. I then realised you fool the light settings.
I had been searching for weeks on the web for ideas BRS was the only site that I found that mentioned in any way lighting.
The dead patches appeared on trachies and I pulled them all out.
The moral of the story lights are dangerous, use them carefully and change them slowly and for LPS 50% blues and no more
I have put a new hammer in and it did not like it so I have taken it out and I am doing a rebuild of my tanks and taking out all the rocks and cleaning them for any dead LPS flesh and then will start again.
For the experts in lighting can we please have some meaningful insights , so fellow reefers don’t have to go through this. Also no need to mention brown jelly, rapid/ slow tissue necrosis etc checked all and negative.