AI Hydra 26 HD Light Schedule

[PeteGibbons]

Hi

I have a red sea E260 aquarium with 2 x AI hydra 26HD lights. I am running them with Dmitry Tumanov's light schedule from the AI website. He runs the schedule on 3 AI hydra 52HD lights on a reefer 250. The schedule is here:

Dmitry Tumanov – AquaIllumination

www.aquaillumination.com

The schedule is a lot less intense than others on the site and BRS vids and I am wondering if its not intense enough for my corals (SPS). Also is it a problem that his schedule is for 3 x Hydra 52HD's and I'm running 2 x Hydra 26HD, does this mean I need to scale it up consideirng I have fewer lights/pucks? It's a fairly new tank with new frags so not been able to assess any progress yet

Thanks

 

[dank reefer]

does this mean I need to scale it up consideirng I have fewer lights/pucks?

Absolutely!
You'd first want to take some PAR measurements to see where you are currently at, then bump up the lights to where you want them to be.
Hydra26 HD wattage are no where close to the 52HD. I'd set the intensity to where you want it then turn on acclimation mode and run acclimation for 4-5 weeks.