Max Fowler
New Member
Hey sorry for the late response, been busy with Overtime at work. Ch. 2, the one I had on all day is your "moonlight" channel, if you use the lunar cycle program, the intensity will go up and down like the moon. Since the last post I've implemented a 4 hour complete dark period from 1am to 6am to give everything a bit of a rest.
Looking at your schedule, you can move or delete the time points on the bottom for lighting intensity changes. Your schedule looks to jump up and down during the day. I'd adjust your white (Ch.1) up a bit more, I run mine at 30% most of the day. You can turn Ch. 2 down during the daylight cycle as well, it doesn't add much light at all even at 100%.
I've tweaked my schedule to this below. Note I run lower intensity on 2 lights over a 40g breeder tank (for light coverage). All of my corals seem quite happy with it, Softies and LPS are looking good (my mohawk Zoas are just going nuts spreading out!). I only have a few pieces of SPS, both high up on the rock and right under and between the lights and they're looking good. I've noticed my BTA got super sulky when I reduced the white down too much, and it only really opens up when the white light is on. I may end up bumping the white up further and see how things go, I like the pop of the blue on the coral, but want everything to excel at the same time. I have my lighting schedule set to times I'm leaving/coming home as I work second shift, that way I can monitor how things are going with the tank during the week.
I have a mixed reef including SPS and I think I run my lights with too high intensity. How high are your lights above the water? Just curious as you said your corals are doing well on this program.
Thanks
