Some corals disturbed after lighting change

[jasonrusso]

I have a Red Sea C-130 with a Steve's Led retrofit. I have the blues set to about 70% (2400 if you are familiar with Steve's) and right now 2.5% on the white (100 setting).

I had the white on 550, but I was getting a lot of algae and torched corals (which a local guy told me is too much intensity on the Steve's white). This weekend I turned the whites down to 2.5%. I turned the blues up a bit and to be honest, I love the way the tank looks!!!! I never saw the fluorescence before because the white washed out the glow.

Now, my huge acan colony isn't inflating. It is still alive because it slimed up after feeding.

Does it need to adjust? Some other things seem a bit off. Will they adjust to lower white light? I thought that the blue is what matters.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

It’s not a white on those that’s the problem. White has more par. As it has blue to red. And blue only has blue.
So you actually just turned it down several hundred par (Like at the top of the tank.)

Yea they should all be fine. Is they brown or act weird you could likely turn up the blue. You might have to up the white a tad to keep the color ratio you like.

I set mine for a long blue in the morning and a long blue at night.
My whites come on at the peak time.
It makes a nice long constantly color temp changing all day. Except am peak and pm.

 

[jasonrusso]

It’s not a white on those that’s the problem. White has more par. As it has blue to red. And blue only has blue.
So you actually just turned it down several hundred par (Like at the top of the tank.)

Yea they should all be fine. Is they brown or act weird you could likely turn up the blue. You might have to up the white a tad to keep the color ratio you like.

I set mine for a long blue in the morning and a long blue at night.
My whites come on at the peak time.
It makes a nice long constantly color temp changing all day. Except am peak and pm.

So did you delay the white for a while and have a peak white? I don't mind doing this. If the white ramps up while I am at work and makes ugly light when I can't see it, whatever.

Is the white important?

Like you said, if I see negative results, I can turn up the blue and white at the same time.

I just don't want to ramp up too fast.