Photon 48 Lighting Setting

[blando233]

Hey guys,

I am trying to come up with a good lighting setting with my photon 48. Does anyone have this and could give me some ideas?

Thanks!!

 

[garwood]

mee too!:wave: i have a couple of zoa colonies and a hammer that is goin transparent. so i set the lights at 35b 15w for 6 hour peak with 3 hour ramp up and down. starting low but dont know if hammer was getting to much or not enough, sooo confused

 

[Ron Reefman]

It really helps if you tell us how deep your tank is? Shallow needs less and deep needs more.

I use EverGrow fixtures (they make the ReefBreeders fixtures) that are just a 32" version of your 48" fixture. After acclimating, I do a 5 hour sunrise, 3 hour midday at 90% blue and 40% white, and a 6 hour sunset. The sunrise and sunset just go up and down it increments of 10% white and 15% blue (roughly) every hour.

I have a mixed reef with a lot of sps and some lps and softies and using these leds for 32 months now.

 

[blando233]

It is a 75 gallon tank. Today i been working on it and since i was going to start off i thought about just gradually increase the light every week or every other week. This is what i have so far let me know what you think.

 

[alton]

I run my Photon 24 on my 40 gallon breeder frag tank @ 65% for both channels max. PAR reading on the sand is 225