Question on acclimating to LED lights

[yankeeslover]

first, thanks for reading and helping.. I have a 46 gallon bowfront.. I had a coralife T5 HO for lights.. it ran one 10k white bulb and one Actinic bulb both at the same time. I currently have some zoas, pipe organ coral and a frog spawn coral.. tank is roughly 6 months old or so..
This weekend I upgraded to two ebay led light fixtures. $165.00 total for both i had to grab them... they have dimmers on them.. i set them up around 14 inches above the tank.. my question is, the dimmer switches dont have numbers so im guessing on what % of white and blue im using.. i am starting out with roughly 30% blue and 5-10% white to acclimate them and will go up weekly.. how do i know if this is enough to even start with? should I start a bit higher on one or both? i dont have a par meter..thank you..

 

[lpsouth1978]

I would stick with your current plan. All of the corals you listed have relatively low light requirements. IMO it would be better to start low and work your way up. If you start too high, you could start bleaching them, and it takes a lot longer for them to recover from that.