lighting

[Brandon Donaldson]

So I am wanting to do a mixed reef and want to know how to balance the lighting so I have in my tank a goldan torch,Hammer, frog spawn, Kenya tree, and some blastos plan on geting more blasto coral what I want are some acros Millpora and stylophora i want about 4 acros 3millpora and a purple stylophora i have a 29gallon biocube with a 10 gallon sump I run carbon puragen and phosgard as well as sump spunges I run my light low but for about 9 to 13 hours a day I have a ai prime for lighting it sits about 2 inches above the water the tank is about 12 to 15 inches deep from top to sand bed my light settings are 8 uv 3 violent 5 deep blue 7 cool blue 3 green 5 red and 3 cool white that is % it is 2whatts over all very low lights I have one pice of sps but I just got it so ill see how its goes

 

[cjd]

AI Prime 2 inches above the water line , doesn't sound like that would give the best coverage. I would seriously look into raising that light 10 to 12 inches above the water line and increase the intensity . I never used the AI prime but I had the AI Sol ' s over a cube and I got better results when they were 14 inches off the water line and turned up.

 

[Brandon Donaldson]

AI Prime 2 inches above the water line , doesn't sound like that would give the best coverage. I would seriously look into raising that light 10 to 12 inches above the water line and increase the intensity . I never used the AI prime but I had the AI Sol ' s over a cube and I got better results when they were 14 inches off the water line and turned up.

I'd have to go open top I really don't want to do that but I do see how it would help