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Hi, I am hoping someone can help me. Please forgive me if names or terms are incorrect.
I bought a Turing 75 Pop Bloom light. Designed for 3-4 foot tanks. One long light system. 4 channels for light.
It has preset programs that 'should' mimic the seasons and days/nights. I can also set it manually.
During the day it is at times showing 100% of bright white light as well as lower values for the other channels. My corals are hating it. After just 3 days my green morphs have taken off at a great rate heading for the shade. The blasto is sulking and refusing to show it's lovely faces. Even the every happy cat is not impressed.
I don't want to burn the poor darlings. I have tried all the presets but even the algae reducer preset seems to me to be far too white and bright.
The instructions are a tad tricky to understand manually programing it but given I have no idea what values I should input doesn't help.
If anyone is familar with these lights I would love a bit of knowledge please. Is there a way to alter the preset values? Do I need to program the entire thing myself? If so do you know the values and step up/down times? I am sure that they will depend on tank contents just to make it trickier?
Light is positioned 30cm above the water level. Water depth is 42cm. Tank is 3 foot with a variety of corals, 2 starfish, 1 blenny, 1 clown fish and a few shell fish for cleaning up.
 

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I can’t answer with the question but I can bump the thread to see if we can get you some help
 

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Not sure if you got this figured out but white channel at 100% is probably cooking everything.
I don’t have the popbloom lights but my Viparspectra white channel is only set to 1% and that is plenty of par for my tank and I have a deep tank. My 210 is 29” deep.
My blue channel is proving most of my par requirements, I only use white channel for mid day full sun simulation.
You need a par meter to set led lights, no way around it. Eye balling it will likely just burn up your corals. Turn your white channel way down.
 

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The fast way is set the limited output for 4 channels, channel 1 (white channel) around 40%.
 

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