Lighting question

[FixIt]

Will I see growth in my coral from the stock led lighting in a 32g led biocube?

 

[flooddc]

Look like it has decent led lighting. Should be able to grow lps and soft corals.

 

[Bkimberlin14]

I have a 32 Biocube, this is the par values for the stock lights at different levels in the tank.

Edit: (not my picture)

 

[FixIt]

I have a 32 Biocube, this is the par values for the stock lights at different levels in the tank.

Edit: (not my picture)

I am still learning about par so what can go where I guess without bleaching and killing it?

 

[Bkimberlin14]

I am still learning about par so what can go where I guess without bleaching and killing it?

Found this quick chart online (I recommend more par for clams)

In my Biocube I’ve gotten away with softies, anemones, and LPS easily. I haven’t thrown any SPS in there yet.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

You should be fine fine with most easy corals.
Honestly it’s quite complicated. Sonall you can do is experiment and watch the coral.

How complicated? For example , that chart is wrong. Many zoas and other softies will take full sun daylight par levels(2000) , so will clams.
A leptoseris is an sps , but is truely a low light coral. Many acros are lower light as well , even with the same name and species , tri color vileda for example. And many montipora do well in med to low light.

100 par is a good generalist coral target. Watching the coral can tell you if it will acclimate to lower and higher light.

 

[Porpoise Hork]

You should be fine fine with most easy corals.
Honestly it’s quite complicated. Sonall you can do is experiment and watch the coral.

How complicated? For example , that chart is wrong. Many zoas and other softies will take full sun daylight par levels(2000) , so will clams.
A leptoseris is an sps , but is truely a low light coral. Many acros are lower light as well , even with the same name and species , tri color vileda for example. And many montipora do well in med to low light.

100 par is a good generalist coral target. Watching the coral can tell you if it will acclimate to lower and higher light.

Agreed.

The only thing I could really add to this is to remember that corals are amazingly adaptive. Most can and will thrive in a wide variety of light spectrum and intensities provided they have had time to properly acclimate to the lighting and the tank's water parameters are stable. For example my old 40g had the most ghetto light rig you could possibly have on it. It was a BeamsWork 10K Cichlid flowler light that I attached a pair of atinic reef bar LED strips to so I could get the spectrum to at least 12-14ish kelvin, and everything in there from zoas to even a plating pink monty absolutely thrived under it. PAR levels were surprisingly respectable with 180 on the top of the rock work and 80 on the sand bed. More than enough for what I was growing at the time.