Need suggested led settings for my corals?

[glb]

Here are my lights for my 12g nano:

Steve's LEDs: 42WLED System Includes:
9- Royal Blue Luxeon ES 3 watt LEDs

5- 5,000K Neutral White Luxeon ES 3 watt LED

Here's a list of my corals:

Several types of mushrooms (ricordea,
xuma?)
Acan lord
Zoas
Panope birdsnest
Hollywood stunner chalice

The lights and hood are hung 6" above the tank. I have a typhon driver and currently the blues run at 40% for 8hrs and the whites at 10% for three hours. My corals are all doing ok but not growing super fast. Would it help to adjust the lights?

 

[saltyphish]

Might. I find my rapidled retro kit for my biocube needs to run pretty low (30%) or I have problems but I am not getting great growth myself.

 

[glb]

Might. I find my rapidled retro kit for my biocube needs to run pretty low (30%) or I have problems but I am not getting great growth myself.

Thanks. Is that 30% for both blue and white or are the numbers different?

 

[saltyphish]

I run my blue at 30% and whites at 10%. However, I mostly have zoas.

 

[glb]

I run my blue at 30% and whites at 10%. However, I mostly have zoas.

Thanks. So it seems mine are about right. The whites seem pretty low but it is a 45w system for a nano.

 

[Chris Adams]

What are you actually expecting for growth?

1) Do you have pictures from when you purchased your corals originally? If so have you looked at those compared to now? I suggest to all that they take pictures of the frags when they get them. I appreciate the growth more when I look back at where things started.

2) If things look good I would not be leaning towards the light as the issue personally, or for that matter anything. The birds nest is what I would be watching for light issues. This will dull if light to intense/bleach out

3) What are your other parameters? ALK, CAL, MAG, PH levels, Nitrate, PHOS

4) Do you feed the yuma, ricordea, acan direct? Not saying you have to but if you want to help growth, direct feed mysis, brine or something.

If everything is in line leave it alone.

Can we get some pics

PS based on my led setting and height of light over my 38gl I think your setting are in line as far as height and intensity. I run my unit 100% blue and peek 35% white 1 hr a day. Have my light about 14" above tank. I did some pretty extensive testing utilizing different white intensity on my tank with noticeable changes in corals and not for the better.

Anyways might have got off track of your original post which was led setting I got caught up on the growth comment :)

 

[glb]

What are you actually expecting for growth?

1) Do you have pictures from when you purchased your corals originally? If so have you looked at those compared to now? I suggest to all that they take pictures of the frags when they get them. I appreciate the growth more when I look back at where things started.

2) If things look good I would not be leaning towards the light as the issue personally, or for that matter anything. The birds nest is what I would be watching for light issues. This will dull if light to intense/bleach out

3) What are your other parameters? ALK, CAL, MAG, PH levels, Nitrate, PHOS

4) Do you feed the yuma, ricordea, acan direct? Not saying you have to but if you want to help growth, direct feed mysis, brine or something.

If everything is in line leave it alone.

Can we get some pics

PS based on my led setting and height of light over my 38gl I think your setting are in line as far as height and intensity. I run my unit 100% blue and peek 35% white 1 hr a day. Have my light about 14" above tank. I did some pretty extensive testing utilizing different white intensity on my tank with noticeable changes in corals and not for the better.

Anyways might have got off track of your original post which was led setting I got caught up on the growth comment :)

Thank you!! I have some camera gels coming tomorrow that should help me get some decent pics. Great advice and pics to come!!

 

[glb]

So I got some gels designed to cover a flash and with the reddish one I got this pic:

 

[Chris Adams]

looks good like the layout. Some great colors in the corals.
So now that you have pics sit back and in a month look at those pics.. bet you see the growth

 

[glb]

looks good like the layout. Some great colors in the corals.
So now that you have pics sit back and in a month look at those pics.. bet you see the growth

Thanks. I was able to get a decent pic using a red filter.

 

[glb]

Some of the greenish/yellow corals are actually orange. Clearly I have a photo learning curve!