Not loving the Steve's LED's on Red Sea C-130.

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I installed the Steve's LEDs into my RSM C-130 on day 1 because I wanted some control over colors and I wanted sunrise and sunset. Since then, I have burned several corals and I am not really getting the results I had hoped. My water parameters are all in line, but I have had some GHA growth.



My main coral guy says that the white channel on the Steve's LED is very powerful and has a strong red spectrum which corals don't like. I only have the white channel at 500 and the blue at 2000. When I had the white at 1000, I bleached a trachy and killed a pink lemonade. Since I turned the white down to 500, I hadn't bleached anything. I have the ramp time at 75 minutes at on at 11:30 and off at 8:30. I figured I had less than 8 hours of full bright, so last week I changed the on time to 10:30. By Thursday my trachy was bleaching and not inflating. I changed back to 11:30.



I don't get how some people are running these at 50-75% when I can't get past 10%!! I'm thinking about putting an AI hydra or Radion in the hood. Anyone done this?
 

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I had Steve's LEDs on my 29 BioCube. I never ran the whites above 20%. I had lots of coral growth with zero issue.
 

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Mine was also the 14k. It was the 29 BioCube System. I'm not sure what the PAR values were. I just know I had the whites turned down really low. Mine were knob controls and I'd estimate it to be 20% or less.
 
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Mine was also the 14k. It was the 29 BioCube System. I'm not sure what the PAR values were. I just know I had the whites turned down really low. Mine were knob controls and I'd estimate it to be 20% or less.
And the blue?
 
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Well, the good thing is that my trachy is inflating again [emoji4]! I was sure it was a goner.

I'm still unsure as to where to go from here. I'm kind of limited as to what lights I can use. My tank has (needs, I have cats) a top so I can't just hang them over.
 
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