LPS zooxanthellae

[Innovative Aquariums]

lol. Yes! I never would have guessed that at 1% its actually good enough for the corals lol. I`m guessing once I raise my light height to about 6in I`m going to need to increase intensity. Would raising the Blue channel be more beneficial? I hear that blue tends to encourage more growth.

 

[Innovative Aquariums]

Corals right now dont like the change of light, but I`m sure they`ll actually prefer the correct intensity light soon. the only things I noticed growing well without any bleaching was my fuzzy green birdsnest, my an-acropora, and my Orange-ish monti, and my candy cane coral. things like my encrusting seasons greetings monti started to turn white a bit but luckily the polyps were still out and bright red. Frogspawn should hopefully make a good recovery.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

lol. Yes! I never would have guessed that at 1% its actually good enough for the corals lol. I`m guessing once I raise my light height to about 6in I`m going to need to increase intensity. Would raising the Blue channel be more beneficial? I hear that blue tends to encourage more growth.

Adjust it to your eye really. The white channel is actually prettty blue. Around 10,000 kelvin or so.

If you need to acclimate , now you can easily by dropping the intensity buy a 100 par or so (6000 lux ish)

 

[Innovative Aquariums]

I`ll keep an eye on the light. Just hoping I`m doing everything right for them. love these corals lol. Kinda love them more than some of my fish lol.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yea, I’m a coral and bug and Weird stuff guy. I have some fish I like but ...

Keep an eye on the coral like you have been. Yea , you may need to move the light up , you’ll actually get some better spread , they also sell a diffuser wide lens thing for that light.

 

[Innovative Aquariums]

Surprisingly, with just 1 B.B., the spread already hits a bit more than 50% of the entire tank. Its a 5ft long tank. I`ll build something to hang the lights on. But for now, They`re placed on pieces of wood laying on top of the tank, lol. I know its scary as hell to hear that.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Hahaha. Get er done ! Lol.

 

[Innovative Aquariums]

Fav corals at the moment. You`re just looking at 50% of the tank. the other half has no B.B. yet lol. Hence, I need to build something to hang them on first.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Nice!

Google image search , aquarium Light hanger. It’ll give you some good ideas.

 

[Innovative Aquariums]

OOOOOOOOO, just gave me a huge idea!. Thank you!

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

You’re welcome!! Good luck !


Another tip, if you have to keep it low , you can pull the lenses and get better spread, it’ll also lower the par a bit.
Most of the bbs are meant to hang at about 10 12in It’s kinda high.

 

[Innovative Aquariums]

You’re welcome!! Good luck !


Another tip, if you have to keep it low , you can pull the lenses and get better spread, it’ll also lower the par a bit.
Most of the bbs are meant to hang at about 10 12in It’s kinda high.

I can possibly to 10in. I tend to sleep behind the tank. I sleep on the living room so the tank acts like a wall lol. In a few days i`ll probably update you on the coral`s "feelings".

 

[Instigate]

I just upgraded my light fixture mounting situation from sitting on 2x4's to this:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-first-fish-tank.317153/page-7#post-4290974

I'm really happy with it. Planning on making up some stainless steel wire to hang it in a more attractive way some time. Got all the parts at:

https://www.tnutz.com/ Was the cheapest prices and shipping I could find.

 

[Innovative Aquariums]

Okay so some time has passed, so far I noticed my LPS grow really well. Specifically my torch has took off in size. My green birdsnest is growing well. The ONLY problems that I had was that my Seasons Greetings (encrusting) monti turned brown and the red monti bleached. Not sure why but I salvaged a bit to start another colony.

 

[Zack K]

Okay so some time has passed, so far I noticed my LPS grow really well. Specifically my torch has took off in size. My green birdsnest is growing well. The ONLY problems that I had was that my Seasons Greetings (encrusting) monti turned brown and the red monti bleached. Not sure why but I salvaged a bit to start another colony.

Glad to hear!