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Horace when you say,
The reality is it makes no difference the zooanthellae reach a saturation point known as Photoinhibition, basically the corals are no longer needing light and the light may or may not effect their ability to metabolize foods. The simple fact is if your keeping your full daylights on 12hrs+ then chances are your corals are reaching that saturation point, but that's poor husbandry on your part. I am positive we cannot duplictae the intensity of the sun during full daylight in the tropics, ofcourse we can leave or lights on like morons for 24hrs, but I don't think I need to speak about that too much!
also..
This is not any sort of scientific way of proving or disproving the brightness of T5's, Par and a lightmeter are the only things that can do that. Luckily your right in that T5's have better Par ratings then MH comparitively. I think either sanjay or someone else on here did that exact study, check it out. I remeber reading on it once.
Ceegee
Well mine have been in there for over 2 months, with outstanding rowth, and I have frags from someone upstate Ny that have not only grown but gotten brighter, one tort became bright neon yellow, from a pale green.
I am not sure, but there are many factors why corals loose coloration and bleach. I had one such RTn event with a recent Mille colony that was WC, I think sometimes wild caught and sometimes even for unknown reasons corals can bleach and rtn or dtn. I just don;t think we know nearly enough about bacteria, and parasites inthis hobby at all.
IMO opinion I think t5's are very bright and can be dangerous to corals if they are not well adjusted to this new form of lighting. I don't think if acclimated properly corals "can't handle," this new light. I think again its poor husbandry on our part, not the corals or this wicked new lighting called t5's.
cheers
David
hmmmm
Horace when you say,
The reality is it makes no difference the zooanthellae reach a saturation point known as Photoinhibition, basically the corals are no longer needing light and the light may or may not effect their ability to metabolize foods. The simple fact is if your keeping your full daylights on 12hrs+ then chances are your corals are reaching that saturation point, but that's poor husbandry on your part. I am positive we cannot duplictae the intensity of the sun during full daylight in the tropics, ofcourse we can leave or lights on like morons for 24hrs, but I don't think I need to speak about that too much!
also..
This is not any sort of scientific way of proving or disproving the brightness of T5's, Par and a lightmeter are the only things that can do that. Luckily your right in that T5's have better Par ratings then MH comparitively. I think either sanjay or someone else on here did that exact study, check it out. I remeber reading on it once.
Ceegee
Well mine have been in there for over 2 months, with outstanding rowth, and I have frags from someone upstate Ny that have not only grown but gotten brighter, one tort became bright neon yellow, from a pale green.
I am not sure, but there are many factors why corals loose coloration and bleach. I had one such RTn event with a recent Mille colony that was WC, I think sometimes wild caught and sometimes even for unknown reasons corals can bleach and rtn or dtn. I just don;t think we know nearly enough about bacteria, and parasites inthis hobby at all.
IMO opinion I think t5's are very bright and can be dangerous to corals if they are not well adjusted to this new form of lighting. I don't think if acclimated properly corals "can't handle," this new light. I think again its poor husbandry on our part, not the corals or this wicked new lighting called t5's.
cheers
David
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