Lord / Micro Keepers please respond

[jasper24]

I am trying to get the best look and growth out of the following. Can you please post your experience with placement and lighting on the following. I have a 58G display with an Outer Orbit 2 x 150 (20K Bulbs) and 4 x 39 T5 Actinic. Thanks in advance.

Australian Lords
Non Indo Lords
Micros
Watermelon Challice

 

[Hypertek99]

I have mine under 250Mh 20K in a 29GAl.

 

[yellowslayer13]

put the coral at the top and they will grow fine

 

[mikekman]

14ks or 20ks supplemented with actinics will make the colors on your corals pop!

I have seen zoas, various lps looking boring under 10ks and then the moment they were under 20ks, it was like WOW! Kind of misleading though.

 

[All Delight]

I use 150 watt mh 20k. To me it appears that growth varies from morph to morph. I have some green non indo lord that I've had for a year and I've gotten 2 polyps. I got the pink panther lords from Jen this past Feb with 2 polyps now there are 8. Same with micros, some grow faster then others. I have these pink mircos from Hugo that grew 1 polyp since last year.

Watermelons like to die on me.

I'm having problems keeping the colors. I've tried so many different things, but I don't have actinics. I have the sunpod which only has LEDs. I'm looking for a cheap pc fixture so I can try using actinics to see if thats the problem.

 

[Scissorhand]

In my experience, they'll adjust to any high lighting and there'll never be a case of too much light.

Especially in your case, I would put them up high.

This is only for Lords and Micros. I have little experience with watermelons.