What are your parameters? Including nutrients just curiousOk so I added a third light and rented a par meter from BRS. I had 200-300+ par throughout the tank and pretty evenly spread throughout the tank. I’m currently running at 100 percent intensity for 8 hours with an hour ramp up and hour ramp down. Odd thing is some or most corals look great and are colored up and encrusting. Some corals look like they are bleaching out on the top part of branches. I watched BRS about wanting 200-300 par through out the tank should I just let the corals ride it out some that are bleaching are on the bottom of the bare bottom tank.
I’ll be honest I’m not a fan of LEDs thus far wishing I didn’t have a rimless tank so I could just make a canopy and run metal halides.
Any advice out there I don’t want to give up on leds the out thing about this whole situation is the sps, softies, Zoas, low in my 300 gallon tank that has 6 kessils on it are are doing amazing and colored up great one different I keep going back to is that tank has a sand bed. This tank is bare bottom and could be factoring in due to this is the first tank I’ve attempted barebottom to increase flow for the sps.
Led lighting question.
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Alk-8.6
Cal-440
Phosphates-0.04
Salinity-35
Nitrates- no clue my test is showing undetectable
Using Hanna checkers but my nitrate one broke and tried using api but it sucks and I can’t honestly tell if I have any. Low nutrients worry me because I’ve never not had a sand bed.
Cal-440
Phosphates-0.04
Salinity-35
Nitrates- no clue my test is showing undetectable
Using Hanna checkers but my nitrate one broke and tried using api but it sucks and I can’t honestly tell if I have any. Low nutrients worry me because I’ve never not had a sand bed.
Alk-8.6
Cal-440
Phosphates-0.04
Salinity-35
Nitrates- no clue my test is showing undetectable
Using Hanna checkers but my nitrate one broke and tried using api but it sucks and I can’t honestly tell if I have any. Low nutrients worry me because I’ve never not had a sand bed.
See if you can find a used 36" AquaMedic, Giesemann, etc. MH pendant and hang it. Most of them come with T5s too. Pendant MH are my favorite since they case almost no heat issue with the open top - they are easy to control with a fan if you do have some.
