Acclimating new corals to lights?

[soccerman77]

So I have a 75g with 2-250w HQI and 4 -54w T5's. I got a couple corals. Most seem to be doing fine except for my candy cane. After being halfway up in my tank for a week it started turning white. Assuming too much light is the problem, I moved the candy cane down to the bottom of the tank with no results yet. It's still feeding. Two questions.

1) Can it eventually make a comeback?

2) For this type of lighting should I acclimate all corals starting at the bottom of the tank and then slowly move them up?

 

[demonsp]

Whene introducing any new stock leaving light out first day always helpful. The candy cane coral with like high light with med. flow , but will do just fine in slightly lower light also. Check for any hitchhickers ( sponges , flatworms Ect. ) that may be around.
Also check here for any preditors http://melevsreef.com/id/ .

Be sure all readings are fine from amonia to calcium . Hes eating so this is good. Ive seen coral like this come back from brink of life so GL.

 

[skippysmind]

My opinion is yes start everything at the bottom, but that is a lot of light for a 75 gallon.

 

[jdellman]

I read somewhere that instead of starting them at the bottom and moving them up, to instead install a few layers of screen over the top of the tank between the lights and slowly remove a layer every other day or so. You can either use a screen that covers the whole tank, or cut the screen and position it over the corals that you are trying to acclimate.