Just purchased an encrusting monti

nastynate

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This monti has a baby blue base with bright yellow polyps. When I brought it home my blue lights were on uvl454. Had pretty good polyp extension considering it was acclimating to my tank. When the daylights came on uvl actinic white polyp extension wasn't so great. So I turned the daylights off and again polyp extension was better. How long can it take for it to acclimate to the full amount of light? Im just going to keep the blue lights on for tonight but don't want to do that for very long as I don't want my other corals to suffer from lack of light.
 
It may take a couple weeks to acclimate. Usually what I do is just leave on my normal light cycle, but put the new piece in a low light area then move it up a little bit each week until you get it to where you want it
 
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