trueblackpercula
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Try raising it closer to the light, also I also have trouble with pinks And can't figure it out. But I have a red setosa 25 inches from the water line that is insane go figure..
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Try raising it closer to the light, also I also have trouble with pinks And can't figure it out. But I have a red setosa 25 inches from the water line that is insane go figure..
i always thought that fading color meant too much light...its not necessarily bleaching just losing that deep red color. I might try and move it up tonight.
trueblackpercula
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From 100 pm until 400pm I run 100 100 38 17 38 at 70% intensity
Stylaster
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I have four gen 1 with tir lens over my 312 gallon system. The lights are 12" off the tank and the tank is 20" deep. Im running it on the deep reef setting with 80% intensity. This is giving me perfect setting to keep my SPS happy on the top of the reef and the LPS and plates down below. I am also running a kessil 350w tuna blue and its set at 100% blue and 50% white in the center of the tank, also at 12" off the tank
this is very close to what I am running except I am running from 12pm-6pm...do you find that 3 hours is enough? are you ramping up to that and ramping back down?
kc350twin
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I have 2 Radion Pros over a 36x36x20 14" AWL. At first I had the lights 12" AWL 12k max and sun rise at 10am and sunset at 11pm with a 6hour max light time from 2pm to 8pm ish. I have not had much SPS success lately and was blaming many things from lights to water quality. I was at a locals house and had my PAR meter there and measured his par and tried to match it. He has 3 250 watt 14k Pheonix SE's and most of his SPS are in the 250par range for only 4hrs a day 12-4 with 2 ReefBrite's on from 9am-9pm.
One week ago I raised my lights to 14" AWL and shortened my light schedule from 1pm to 11pm with a 20k max. My par at the top of the water column is 300ish and the sand is 100ish during the short MAX light section of my program. I have 3 SPS frags from his tank and hope I can keep them as colorful as his.
One of my first graphs
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My current graph and may lower more
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One week ago I raised my lights to 14" AWL and shortened my light schedule from 1pm to 11pm with a 20k max. My par at the top of the water column is 300ish and the sand is 100ish during the short MAX light section of my program. I have 3 SPS frags from his tank and hope I can keep them as colorful as his.
One of my first graphs
My current graph and may lower more
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SteveM10
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I have 8 radions over my 410 gal mostly SPS reef tank. I am currently running them at 40%. Any higher and I get some serious bleaching. I am getting some good growth and starting to see some nice color. My tank is about 8 months old now. I got a great schedule by calling EcoTech support.
kc350twin
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markmesquite
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I voted lower intensities.I keep Sps corals.I have found out that @50% my corals still looked washed out .
trueblackpercula
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It's the white balance that if low will give a low light affect. Raise the whites and see what happens
Fishypapa
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Same here but I'll try out the white balance and see. Is there one particular color that tends to "burn" the corals more than another or is it the sheer amount of combined light and distance from source that does it?
kc350twin
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It may sound silly but raising my light helped with the "dim look". It lit more of the room and it is perceived to be brighter when I actually dimmed the over all intensity.
I personally love the 22kish look that is on my schedule at around 7:30pm.
Is it possible to grow corals at that setting? Do you need the red and green and whites at all?
I personally love the 22kish look that is on my schedule at around 7:30pm.
Is it possible to grow corals at that setting? Do you need the red and green and whites at all?
trueblackpercula
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Here is my schedule that seems to be the perfect sweet spot. I will not change my schedule again for a long while as I truly believe this is perfect for my all SPS tank.
Start of day is from 7:45 am until 10:30 pm with what i call a twist lol
12am to 1am
100/0/0/0/0 at 20% intensity of the overall 70%
8:00am to 9:30am
100/100/0/0/0
10am
100/100/9/9/9
11am
100/100/18/18/18
12pm
100/100/25/18/25
1pm to 4pm
100/100/38/18/38
5pm
100/100/25/18/25
6pm
100/100/18/18/18
7pm
100/100/9/9/9
8pm t0 9:30pm
100/100/0/0/0
10:30 lights off
erndog1001
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What are they? Gen ??? Pros????
How High?
Whats the footprint of the tank?
Need input lol
Bc my tank is just about that big too and I'm currently running 4 But I know I need more.
erndog1001
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Whites @ 100%
Reds & Greens @ 25%
And as i stated earlier all running at max 75%
If I go any higher on the reds and greens Instant algae bloom lol
trueblackpercula
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I had the same problem with the greens and reds. I am at 70% intensity so it's been working well.
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