Oscar Bravo
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Anyone else have some ReefBreaders on your tank. I have two 50" on my 230g side by side. I just don't know at what percentage I should put it for SPS. Just wanted to know other peoples settings.
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There are people who use them and you should be able to get lots of help. They will need to know what kind of SPS that you are keeping... acropora, or MBP&S... this will help with the recommendations since their light requirements are different.
TexasTodd
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Hi Oscar B, I'm here him military city usa also.
How high can you get your fixtures above water surface?
I think these lights are a good value for LED and Logan is a great young man and stands behind his products.
My experience is you'll want to keep the white channel very low, if possible you want the fixture 18-22" above the surface.
I've had bad luck with Montis with these lights at the height, intensity, and channel amounts i started with. But, decent luck with acros.
I worked up to basically a Coral Labs AB+ type program, which is a 4:1 ratio with blues, purples, UV being the "4" and White, red, green the "1". I got up to 48% on blue type channels and 12% on red/green and 15% on white...wanted a bit less blue than sticking to the program.
My lights are only 8" off the surface. The problem is you need them higher for better spectrum mixing...in my opinion. I can't with my canopy.
I've had these about 6 months, and I've run several other very successful SPS tanks in the past without LED.
I've lost three SPS, all three were directly under a white LED and high up in tank. Parameters have all been fine and lots of flow, chiller in place in case temp issues etc.
Three weeks ago I turned my Whites and Reds down to a max of 2%. Nothing has gotten worse.
Two weeks ago I picked up some nice mini colonies and placed them on my sandbed. I've left them there longer than normal due to losing my Pikachu frag (under a white) three weeks ago. A week after the low placement both colonies have nice white growth tips, only corals in tank with them. Further proof to me that higher lights would be better and I still may be running them with too much intensity. These fixtures are very powerful. This is a 27" tall 150g tank.
I have the V2 50. I'll probably be lowering my blues to 44% and then 40% to see what happens.
With current settings A. Valaida Tri-color and A. Youngei Green Slimer (excuse spelling) are growing like weeds under them with good coloring. But these are easy acros. I've absolutely fried encrusting and branching montis with PAR readings of only around 80 so highly likely the meter I used did not pick up all PAR. I have a Squmosa clam that has doubled in mass in 4-5 months, on the sandbed, where the PAR meter said about 60.
So, get them high, and/or run them at a lower percent than you think needed, and, watch using the white channel intensity.
Beyond that, hammer corals, lobos, etc. have done great. Acan's I've also had issues like the Montis.
If you join MAAST local club they have a decent PAR meter you can borrow.
Thanks,
Todd
How high can you get your fixtures above water surface?
I think these lights are a good value for LED and Logan is a great young man and stands behind his products.
My experience is you'll want to keep the white channel very low, if possible you want the fixture 18-22" above the surface.
I've had bad luck with Montis with these lights at the height, intensity, and channel amounts i started with. But, decent luck with acros.
I worked up to basically a Coral Labs AB+ type program, which is a 4:1 ratio with blues, purples, UV being the "4" and White, red, green the "1". I got up to 48% on blue type channels and 12% on red/green and 15% on white...wanted a bit less blue than sticking to the program.
My lights are only 8" off the surface. The problem is you need them higher for better spectrum mixing...in my opinion. I can't with my canopy.
I've had these about 6 months, and I've run several other very successful SPS tanks in the past without LED.
I've lost three SPS, all three were directly under a white LED and high up in tank. Parameters have all been fine and lots of flow, chiller in place in case temp issues etc.
Three weeks ago I turned my Whites and Reds down to a max of 2%. Nothing has gotten worse.
Two weeks ago I picked up some nice mini colonies and placed them on my sandbed. I've left them there longer than normal due to losing my Pikachu frag (under a white) three weeks ago. A week after the low placement both colonies have nice white growth tips, only corals in tank with them. Further proof to me that higher lights would be better and I still may be running them with too much intensity. These fixtures are very powerful. This is a 27" tall 150g tank.
I have the V2 50. I'll probably be lowering my blues to 44% and then 40% to see what happens.
With current settings A. Valaida Tri-color and A. Youngei Green Slimer (excuse spelling) are growing like weeds under them with good coloring. But these are easy acros. I've absolutely fried encrusting and branching montis with PAR readings of only around 80 so highly likely the meter I used did not pick up all PAR. I have a Squmosa clam that has doubled in mass in 4-5 months, on the sandbed, where the PAR meter said about 60.
So, get them high, and/or run them at a lower percent than you think needed, and, watch using the white channel intensity.
Beyond that, hammer corals, lobos, etc. have done great. Acan's I've also had issues like the Montis.
If you join MAAST local club they have a decent PAR meter you can borrow.
Thanks,
Todd
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Oscar Bravo
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I too have my lights at 8 inches of the water because of my canopy, cant do more. I have my whites higher than my blues at the moment. I usually have my blues about 10% less than whites. My whites at 4pm have them up to 60% blues at 50%. That is the highest I have it on. Then after its back down to 50 40 and 30% every hour. Same in the morning, it starts at 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60% at 4pm. I did had blues a little more than whites but my tank look very blue. So I lower the blues just below whites.
I have try a PAR meter and at this level it only gives be high 200 or 300. They only way I can get 400 was if a ramp them up to 80%!!! I know their was something wrong there. I manly have SPS acros. I don't know what reaction I will get for dropping the blues.
