Bear with me on this one please! We've had a 50g FOWLER for years, and recently for fun I decided I'd try a couple of coral frags. We've had the same, bog-standard, blue and white LED strip sitting on top for years with no issues. The frags we put in were a GSP, a Zoa, and a frogspawn. All of them looked happy and thriving, until--
The light switch(basic ON/OFF for blues and whites) started failing. I tinkered with it, but it wouldn't keep the white on. So a friend gave us another strip; this one has red, blue, white and green and is much "hotter". Almost immediately the frogspawn and GSP wasn't happy at all. Nothing else had changed, just the light. I tried raising the lights and moving the frags around. Still not happy, I took off the new light and put the old one back on top, having to fiddle with it to keep the whites on, and the GSP was happy and waving again. Finally the old light just died, so last night, wanting something simple like the old warhorse strip-that is to say, on the weak side-I wound up ordering an Orbit Marine. My reasoning-my hope-is that at least I can play with the blankety-blank settings for a change and hopefully keep a frogspawn and GSP happy. From the lights to the sand is 18"; I have the frags sitting at 14". I guess what I'm looking for is whether my instincts are correct, and the new light is just too much for them. Things have to improve with the Orbit Marine, right? Assuming I can tinker and find optimum settings? I guess I just had dumb luck with that old set of no-name lights.
Old lights they loved
New lights they hate(and me too)
Thanks for any thoughts!
The light switch(basic ON/OFF for blues and whites) started failing. I tinkered with it, but it wouldn't keep the white on. So a friend gave us another strip; this one has red, blue, white and green and is much "hotter". Almost immediately the frogspawn and GSP wasn't happy at all. Nothing else had changed, just the light. I tried raising the lights and moving the frags around. Still not happy, I took off the new light and put the old one back on top, having to fiddle with it to keep the whites on, and the GSP was happy and waving again. Finally the old light just died, so last night, wanting something simple like the old warhorse strip-that is to say, on the weak side-I wound up ordering an Orbit Marine. My reasoning-my hope-is that at least I can play with the blankety-blank settings for a change and hopefully keep a frogspawn and GSP happy. From the lights to the sand is 18"; I have the frags sitting at 14". I guess what I'm looking for is whether my instincts are correct, and the new light is just too much for them. Things have to improve with the Orbit Marine, right? Assuming I can tinker and find optimum settings? I guess I just had dumb luck with that old set of no-name lights.
Old lights they loved
New lights they hate(and me too)
Thanks for any thoughts!