Lighting schedule

[Angelos]

Hello to you all, i have a 100 gallons reef mixed tang, with lps, and sps corals, 2 acros to. I am running 12 hiurs of lps/soft preset on 2 radion xr15 pros on 50%. I wanna change the schedule to something more white, like ab+ or some other preset. How should i change it without stressing the sensitive corals etc?

 

[Kooma]

I’ve never really given it much thought on stressing corals as long as you aren’t changing intensity too much.

More white is nice, I usually add more white in the times I am at home to enjoy the color of the fish and a natural looking reef.

More white light can increase algae and cyano growth, if those have been a problem in the past it’s something to consider.

I’d modify it to whatever you like and simply retain the intensity levels, give it a week and see how they do. 50% on a xr15 isn’t all that much light.

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

I run a modified AB+ schedule at 80% on a Waterbox 20 AIO and it does very well with my mixed reef.

It starts out more white and then ends with mostly blues. I toned down the red/green a bit to help with algae growth (bad bubble algae problem every now and then).