PAR to CORAL Directory

[Lazys Coral House]

Share your coral to PAR results.

PAR Readings Nov 2014 - 2x 400w 20k Metal Halide + 120w LED in center. Some corals are large which is why the PAR fluctuates so much from one end of the coral to the other. Low being the lowest recorded PAR hitting any of the coral branches and High is the highest recorded PAR on any of the branches. Sweet Spot is where I think the coral would do best. In many cases it is a guess based on the PAR the coral is in and the colors it is exhibiting or from lighting experiments with the same coral in my frag tank.

Typical Parameters of my tank
Alk 9.5 | CA 420 | Mag 1300 | P04 .04 | Potassium 400 | Iodine .06 | Nitrate Less than 1 (Goal is 3-5)

Coral	Low	High	Color at this Par	Sweet Spot?	Light Source
Appleberry (Branching)	500	530	Excellent	500	MH
Blue Lagoon	360	700	Good	400	MH
BOP	120	240	Good in high PAR Spots	250	MH
Cookie Monster	300	300	Good	250	LED
Green Birdsnest	230	500	Good	500+	MH/LED
Hawkins	330	340	Excellent	350	MH
Ice Fire	400	440	Good	400	MH
Lime in Sky	200	500	Excellent	500+	MH
Oregon Tort	280	540	Excellent	500	MH/LED
Pearlberry	330	400	Good but would be better in lower PAR	250	MH
Pink Birdsnest	370	550	Good in high PAR Spots	700+	MH/LED
Pink Lemonade (Left)	600	675	Excellent	700+	MH
Pink Lemonade (Right)	400	430	Good but would be better in higher PAR	700+	MH
Posionberry	350	400	Excellent	400	LED
Red Dragon	240	340	(Pink not Red)To much light or not enough nitrates	200	MH
Red Planet	220	270	Good	200	LED
Setosa	150	280	Excellent	250	MH/LED
Shortcake (Vivid's)	300	320	Excellent	300	LED
Shortcake Wild	330	390	Poor	600+	LED
Spongodes	280	300	Good	350	MH
Sunset Millie	400	700	Excellent	700+	MH

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What good are PAR readings without a picture of the tank they came from

 

[buzzword]

Sweet tank! Good info on your PAR readings. May help with my placement of corals. Thanks.

 

[TJ's Reef]

Beautiful Reeftank with good PAR charting for sure but a little confused to exactly what lighting is above it.... This thread says two 400w 20K MH's with 120w LED in center and the Ocean Revive thread says five S026 units at 9 months of usage ???


Cheers, Todd

 

[Lazys Coral House]

Beautiful Reeftank with good PAR charting for sure but a little confused to exactly what lighting is above it.... This thread says two 400w 20K MH's with 120w LED in center and the Ocean Revive thread says five S026 units at 9 months of usage ???
Cheers, Todd

I can clear up that confusion. The Display Tank pictured above where PAR readings are from has a 400w 20k MH (Ebay Artemis Bulbs) on each end and a ocean revive LED in the center. You can track the lighting source for each coral in the last column. Ones that say MH/LED means the coral is getting light from both. My Frag Tank has 4 Ocean Revive LED's. Total of 5 units.