Chalice lighting ?????

[SDguy]

Peter, what depth do you keep your PB at?

thx in advance,

Aaron

Oh that's definitely one that likes more light. I keep it about 2/3-3/4 of the way down. It's a red/pink color, but the eyes are all orange and green. Higher up (like top 1/3 of the tank) it is a much brighter bubblegum pink, but the eyes get more green. I just don't have the realestate for it up higher, plus I like the eye color it has now.

 

[Troylee]

I have had horrid luck with my Metal Halide. I am using a 250W 20K XM bulb, on a 60 gallon cube, 24" deep. I had a few chalices just flat out die, some lost their color in certain spots (bleached), and some look healthy but are not growing. A few of the ones that were looking real bad I moved over to my 46 gallon 4 x T5HO tank and they recover.

Didnt mean to high jack your thread, but just letting you know that I have had similar problems and this was one way I went at resolving them.

no biggie bro..... if it pertains to chalices and lighting it fits the bill.....
there is so many chalices out there now and they all need something different so its hard to guess where to put them..... i myself just got into lps i was strictly a stick fan but r2r has been converting me to lps as well.....althou my tanks not liking it..... it's a tough balancing act with a sps reef and introducing lps..... my last tank was mixed and everything did great but it wasnt bacteria driven like my current one.... im gonna lay off the vodka for a couple weeks and see what happens..... i just recently started dosing strotium and potassium and my sps took off like crazy and the colors brightened up, therefore i think i have starved my tank to much.... thats why my lps dont look so great....."im thinking anyways"