Lights for soft and sps corals

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This are my numbers: salinity 1.024. Anyway my corals doesn’t look very happy. So my guest is lighting. Some people says that the corals love the blue light, etc. I have two lumini 80w with four channels, (blue, purple, white and green) Can somebody help me with the intensity of the diferentes channels? The lights are programables to change intensity and time during the day.
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This are my numbers: salinity 1.024. Anyway my corals doesn’t look very happy. So my guest is lighting. Some people says that the corals love the blue light, etc. I have two lumini 80w with four channels, (blue, purple, white and green) Can somebody help me with the intensity of the diferentes channels? The lights are programables to change intensity and time during the day.
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What is the Alk, phosphate, and Ca measured in?
 

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Welcome to Reef2Reef!!! Lights, flow, and water quality all impact corals - what type of coral do you have?
 

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This are my numbers: salinity 1.024. Anyway my corals doesn’t look very happy. So my guest is lighting. Some people says that the corals love the blue light, etc. I have two lumini 80w with four channels, (blue, purple, white and green) Can somebody help me with the intensity of the diferentes channels? The lights are programables to change intensity and time during the day.
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What is the Alk and Ca measured in
 
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Alkalinity and other values are in the first photo with my post
 

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This are my numbers: salinity 1.024. Anyway my corals doesn’t look very happy. So my guest is lighting. Some people says that the corals love the blue light, etc. I have two lumini 80w with four channels, (blue, purple, white and green) Can somebody help me with the intensity of the diferentes channels? The lights are programables to change intensity and time during the day.
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This are my numbers: salinity 1.024. Anyway my corals doesn’t look very happy. So my guest is lighting. Some people says that the corals love the blue light, etc. I have two lumini 80w with four channels, (blue, purple, white and green) Can somebody help me with the intensity of the diferentes channels? The lights are programables to change intensity and time during the day.
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First welcome to R2R!

What’s your tank size and what light are you using/ how many lights are you using

Are you running the tank with adequate flow?

How old is you tank/ how long has it been cycled?

When did you introduce the coral?

Last but most important question, how do you like that aqua spin! Thing looks cool! How accurate is it? Lol

Edit: Also if you taking photos with your phone and are not using lenses, this is a good app.

 
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First welcome to R2R!

What’s your tank size and what light your are you using/ how many lights are you using

Are you running the tank with adequate flow?

How old is you tank/ how long has it been cycled?

When did you introduce the coral?

Last but most important question, how do you like that aqua spin! Thing looks cool! How accurate is it? Lol

Edit: Also if you taking photos with your phone and are not using lenses, this is a good app.

The tank is 55 gallons, the tank is around 6 years old, corals has more than 6 months in the tank, no progress growing. I don’t know how accurate is the aqua spin it’s grim a lfs... I have two lights 80w each...
 

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The tank is 55 gallons, the tank is around 6 years old, corals has more than 6 months in the tank, no progress growing. I don’t know how accurate is the aqua spin it’s grim a lfs... I have two lights 80w each...
I really could not find much information on your light.

But if your dead set that the culprit is your lighting, you can alway rent a par meter.

Here is a good read:
 
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