LPS Lighting question

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I am turning my 150g 48 x 25 x 30 SPS tank into a LPS tank ,,,, Plans are to have ,, Favias ,, Blasto's ,, Zoa's & Polys ,,, a few Scollys and a Meat Coral or two and heavy on Acans. I also have two green polyp Toadstools in the tank at this time. My question is a lighting question ,,, I have access to a Par meter and was wondering what kind of numbers I should be looking to have in the tank? I have 3 AI Hydra's over this tank, at this time,, I have no plans of switching to another type of light. Pretty much what I have done is to turn down the white led's over the tank and turned up the blue leds from what I had them set for when the tank had SPS corals in it, but have no idea on what type of numbers I should be looking to hit. Maybe I should just wing it and let the corals tell me what they want,, but thought I would ask the question anyway.
 
I don't run led. I run T5 half blue plus half true Actinic bulbs with a blue reef Brite strip. With all bulbs on runs around 100-130 par. But I only run 6 bulbs for 3 hours and 2 for 10 hours with led strip on for 11 hours.
 

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