Question on LE Toadstool

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I have a Green LE Toadstool that has been doing well. About 3 days ago I changed my lighting (went from 10K to 20K) and it has not extended its polyps since then..

It has not lost any size or deflated at all.

Should I be concerned?

 

[mflamb]

No real concern. Corals have to acclimated to light as well as water. 20K bulbs are substantially bluer that 10K which have more white, yellow and red in their spectrum. Keep an eye on it. You might want to shorten your light on time and work it back up to what you have now.

 

[cstires]

It will be fine. From my experience toadstools are easily upset by changes to their normal routine. When I first got mine, it took 3 weeks to open! I wouldn't worry about it at all.

So how do you like the change? I have 10k's myself, my plan is to use them until it's time to change, then I was considerig changing to the 20k's.

 

[Boostable]

I like it ALOT.. by all means it is very blue, expecially compaired to the 10K's, but the coloration enhancements are great.

 

[cstires]

Are you using the XM's?

 

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Yep.. XM 10 and now 20's.

 

[cschweitzer]

From what I heard, even though XM bulbs are closer to the cheap end of price, they are one of the only, if not the only, company to use true actinic phosphors in their 20K bulbs. I may be completely wrong about this, but this is what I was told.

 

[Boostable]

I read the same thing, and I really like the XM's.

 

[cstires]

I think I read that somewhere too!