Too much or not enough light?

[chrisgold]

Had a nightmare getting my lighting set up properly lately . I had a par meter that I lent to set the light up but since lost the schedule so I have no idea now. Il add sone picture to see if you can tell if these corals need more or less light (%)

On the torch you can see the tips are orand in sone places but faded in others but other torches next to it seem to have good colour .

 

[Utubereefer]

What type of lights are you using and what are your current settings? Also lighting placement will help me answer your questions…. How high above the water line? How many units?

 

[chrisgold]

What type of lights are you using and what are your current settings? Also lighting placement will help me answer your questions…. How high above the water line? How many units?

Radion xr30g5 on the mount it comes with . I am running Lps/soft preset at 8% at the moment with the white turned down to 1%

 

[chrisgold]

What type of lights are you using and what are your current settings? Also lighting placement will help me answer your questions…. How high above the water line? How many units?

Light 13 inches from top of torch

 

[Utubereefer]

That seems like an extremely low setting for LPS… torches can handle high par

 

[Utubereefer]

8% or 80%????

 

[chrisgold]

8% or 80%???

8% or 80%????

 

[chrisgold]

8% or 80%????

Yeah I thought that seemed low aswell myself but stuff seems to be bleaching il post a pic of a goni

 

[Utubereefer]

I run my gen 4 xr30 pros at 80% using ab+ settings. Looks like you are at 80% not 8…. Not sure about the gen 5 settings tho. You can try to crank it up 5% and see what happens

 

[Shirak]

Bleaching can be caused by other things such as water parameters and nutrient levels. Highly unlikely it’s the lights at 8%. You said 13” from the torch to the light? How far from the water is the light and how deep in the tank is the corals?

what are your nitrate and phosphate levels?

 

[Viva'sReef]

Looks like you are running about 65% and only 9% of the 65%. So it's really running at about 6% full power

 

[chrisgold]

Looks like you are running about 65% and only 9% of the 65%. So it's really running at about 6% full power

Yeah I’ve turned it up to 20% intensity see wot happends

 

[chrisgold]

Bleaching can be caused by other things such as water parameters and nutrient levels. Highly unlikely it’s the lights at 8%. You said 13” from the torch to the light? How far from the water is the light and how deep in the tank is the corals?

what are your nitrate and phosphate levels?

Nitrate about 8-10 and no idea of phos doesn’t show up on salifert text kit. All parameters agave been stable for 3+ months apart form phos thag I don’t know

ca 450
All 7.8 -8.0
Mg 1380

 

[chrisgold]

I run my gen 4 xr30 pros at 80% using ab+ settings. Looks like you are at 80% not 8…. Not sure about the gen 5 settings tho. You can try to crank it up 5% and see what happens

Yeah I’ve cranked it up abit I’ll just have to keep an eye on things

 

[Shirak]

Nitrate about 8-10 and no idea of phos doesn’t show up on salifert text kit. All parameters agave been stable for 3+ months apart form phos thag I don’t know

ca 450
All 7.8 -8.0
Mg 1380

Well corals need some phosphate too. Are you saying you have the salifert PO4 kit and it's not showing any color? 0 phosphate would be bad.

 

[chrisgold]

Well corals need some phosphate too. Are you saying you have the salifert PO4 kit and it's not showing any color? 0 phosphate would be bad.

I’d doesnt show ULR reading on salifert I’ve herd it’s common not to show anything ?

 

[chrisgold]

Well corals need some phosphate too. Are you saying you have the salifert PO4 kit and it's not showing any color? 0 phosphate would be bad.

Just tested phos it’s 1

 

[Shirak]

I use a Hanna ULR phosphate tester so I have no experience with the Salifert. Sounds like you are not certain though. It's possible to have 1 PO4 but that would be crazy high. Might want to look into a different tester or have a LFS run a test. The corals look good other than the Goni. Try feeding a little? My Goni's like to be fed 2 -3x a week.

 

[chrisgold]

I use a Hanna ULR phosphate tester so I have no experience with the Salifert. Sounds like you are not certain though. It's possible to have 1 PO4 but that would be crazy high. Might want to look into a different tester or have a LFS run a test. The corals look good other than the Goni. Try feeding a little? My Goni's like to be fed 2 -3x a week.

I’ll text again now thanks for the info. Aye I will try feeding the goni reef roids any good for goni?

 

[Shirak]

I’ll text again now thanks for the info. Aye I will try feeding the goni reef roids any good for goni?

Yes just go easy on the reef roids. Mix up a little and squirt over the goni when the flow is off.