Lighting Help - Inherited this NUVO 40G

[johnbr]

Hi Guys,

It's been a while since my last interaction in this forum. My last tank was 6 years ago. Long story short. Friend graduated, left town I got his tank. It's a 40 gallon fusion AIO from Innovated Marine. He could not give me any old profile for the Radion XR15 G5. I started the tank from scratch using new live rock and parameters have been stable for the past 8 days (that's how old the tank is since I restarted) but I can't figure out the lighting. Currently running LPS template from coralab peak 65% output (will post some screenshots). I could not figure out what salt he was using it since everything happened really fast. The salt I ended up getting was RedSea's Coral PRO and everything seems fine. All the corals are Euphyllias (Hammer, Torch and Frogspawn).

He has been growing these for almost 3 years and I really don't want them to die or bleach.

Any tips please?

Thanks a lot.

 

[blaxsun]

If you click on my build thread I have a Radion template that you can download (it's intended for the Blue Radions, but can be easily modified for the Pro model).

 

[johnbr]

If you click on my build thread I have a Radion template that you can download (it's intended for the Blue Radions, but can be easily modified for the Pro model).

Thanks for providing that. Could you point where should I make the changes for the PRO?

 

[blaxsun]

Thanks for providing that. Could you point where should I make the changes for the PRO?

Blue on the left, Pro on the right (XR15/XR30). Basically just import the template and then you'll probably have to adjust slightly based on the difference in LEDs (there's also a spreadsheet in that link that you can refer to when trying to match colors).

 

[Hooz]

You can use any template or color mix you want. WWC has Radion templates for a variety of different corals.

The important part is getting the intensity set to accommodate your coral. The only way to do that is to get your hands on a PAR meter (borrow or rent one) and test it yourself. Once you get it in range, just let it run and the rest will figure itself out.