Big shipment coming in next week need some help

[JosephM]

So I participated in a sale and bought a lot, probably too many, corals. They don’t come in until next week but I want to be ready. I know a rough estimate of where I want them all to be in the end. I plan on floating for 20 min, drip acclimate for 30 min, and then dip in Bayer. But where I get confused is acclimating them to light. I have some softies and one favia and never light acclimated them and they did good but with the amount and quality that I got I want to do this right. It’s a 29 gal tank with a viparspectra mounted about 10 inches above surface. I can’t easily move it any more up. I’m currently at 5% whites and 40% blues. In the end I want to be at about 5-10% white and around 60% blues. What I was thinking was dropping white to 1% and blues to 10% and place corals where I’m hoping their forever home will be in the tank. And each week ramp up white 1% and blues 10% until desired level is reached. Will this be okay? Any tips and advice will be very welcome!

 

[JosephM]

Here’s my haul WAYYY too many

 

[JCTReefer]

Par meter??? Do you have one? Very helpful tool when placing coral. Especially running LED lighting. Most vendors usually list what par range they keep their livestock at.

 

[JosephM]

Par meter??? Do you have one? Very helpful tool when placing coral. Especially running LED lighting. Most vendors usually list what par range they keep their livestock at.

No I don’t have one, and where I ordered doesn’t list what par they keep it at or care for it.

 

[flyguy13]

My vipar is 13” above my 20L, and run 55/10 right now. I keep everything on the bottom for a couple days and try spots out because my pieces never like where I envisioned them. LOL