180 Gallon SPS 1st Attempt

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2 120 watt wifi programmable leds 3 channel (Awesome) Lens removed
1 48" 405nmUV POP Custom BML LED 80 watt
1 72" 10K 420nm UV Growth Custom BML Led 120 watt

12 Hour Light Cycle 6 hours at peak

4 bulb t5 HO with ati Bulbs that need to go ... does not fit

Just added a 20 frag sps pack from Your Reef ...

Wish me some luck some browning expected ...

 

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Have to turn down my white / color / uv channels apparently ... or just wait it out ...

One of the monti peices that was under lower light in the fellows tanks that I grabbed it from bleached completely ... the rainbow monti colony is on a rock on the sandbed and is to large to move / probably to late ... the part that bleached was lacking color so if it comes back hopefully with color.

 

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Pieces that are under abit less light / where taken from higher spots in the previous tank ok so far ... and had more color originally

Also the green star polyps on the rock are opening only when the uv diodes are off the corals where under a Sunbright f2 led previously guess it had allot less / no 420nm

 

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The rest of the rainbow monti ... has bleached and has slim / goo this morning ... PITA ... also noticed any part of the digi on the rock that was touching the monti is doing this now as well ...

 

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Raised alkalinity from 7.5-to 9 RTN has stopped but has moved on the the digi with stn that might be stopping today ...

I will test an does more often now that the coral demand on the system is higher ... Cal nd MG weekly now ... Instead of at Water changes ...

 

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200 watts of UV leds and only 120w of other spectrum?

You should put more 460nm blue than 400-420

 

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Total at noon this is the spectrum with the bml ...
24 405nm
24 420nm
8 3500k
60 6500k
36 royal blue
24 470 nm
4 660nm
4 500nm

4 bulb t5 HO @ actnic / blue / blue + / Coral plus

I also have 2 wireless d120's that I use to add more royal blue and blue on a ramp

I turned down the peak to 4 hours and was mostly alk problems causing the STN due to the higher demand ... it has since stopped ...