Too much or too little light?

[A. grandis]

So Dana riddle told the op what to do all of us what he would do in this situation but u and this led hatred u have on every light thread can’t let it go and tell the op to do something completely different.

Because U obviously have tons of scientific data to back this up like Dana does right? You have a lab obviously correct? Some published scientific data? A paper at least typed up in Microsoft word?

Op if it was me I would listen to Dana and I think the Monti is to high up lower that and I hope your Corals bounce back I know the feeling your going thru

Lol.

You should know this by now of course.
But it do often reccomend treating led just like t5 or any other source.
I see the greatest success with led tanks here that do that. As well as my own.

LOL!!!
You guys can do whatever you want, just like me.
And we can all recommend whatever we want to.
I guarantee that if he does what I say it will work for any tank 100%.
Can you do the same?
Grandis.

 

[Leyth]

So Dana riddle told the op what to do all of us what he would do in this situation but u and this led hatred u have on every light thread can’t let it go and tell the op to do something completely different.

Because U obviously have tons of scientific data to back this up like Dana does right? You have a lab obviously correct? Some published scientific data? A paper at least typed up in Microsoft word?

Op if it was me I would listen to Dana and I think the Monti is to high up lower that and I hope your Corals bounce back I know the feeling your going thru

Hey, thanks for the response. I have moved the monti's down and I will continue to monitor them and maybe raise the fixture if I notice any other issues. I am listening to Dana and everyone else so I appreciate all of your for taking your time to give me advice.

I want to also mention that most of these corals that I am talking about spent about a year growing 800-1000%(that is probably and under estimate with a few of them to be honest) under only LED's in my previous tank. So, I'm not getting rid of my LED's, they're not the issue lol.

 

[A. grandis]

Hey, thanks for the response. I have moved the monti's down and I will continue to monitor them and maybe raise the fixture if I notice any other issues. I am listening to Dana and everyone else so I appreciate all of your for taking your time to give me advice.

I want to also mention that most of these corals that I am talking about spent about a year growing 800-1000%(that is probably and under estimate with a few of them to be honest) under only LED's in my previous tank. So, I'm not getting rid of my LED's, they're not the issue lol.

LOL! Great then... there is no problem.
Good luck!
Grandis.

 

[Leyth]

LOL! Great then... there is no problem.
Good luck!
Grandis.

Thank you!

 

[[Cameron]]

Yep, I'm in Atlanta. Wanna come over and fix this for me? haha

I've read through the responses on this thread and I just want to thank everyone for chiming in to help assist me. However, I am a rookie to this hobby. I'm trying my best, but some things are a little over my head. I've kept spread sheets of all my test results and my dosing schedules. I test some parameters every day and make sure I don't go more than 5 days without testing all parameters(except for phosphate as I didn't have a test for this but it's on the way).

If I can put together a common denominator of everyone's opinions in this thread, it seems like I should cut back on lighting and see how that effects the tank. Should I raise the fixture? Decrease the schedule lighting time? Both?

How many SPS are fragged, go to another tank with radical light changes and thrive? In a tank with good water quality, most of them. The common denominator with most SPS is to stabilize the tank (lighting, flow, nutrition, etc) and then leave them alone. Most SPS dislike being moved around, they don't like critters (particularly us) touching them and they don't like water quality changes. They are able to adapt to a fairly wide range of lighting but it takes time. When something changes, they react but usually if the water quality is solid they recover and adapt often to spectacular results. The problem is many hobbyists lack patience and rush in to "fix" the problem. This "fixing" creates more change and they keep going often until it is too late.

That said I did have a very large blue tort (about 12" across) bleach overnight on me after changing old bulbs in an MH fixture for new ones. I also had my hands in the tank scaping, I did a 20% water change and a few other things but the end result was heartbreak. It happens and in that tank during that time it was the only coral to show any kind of reaction. Thankfully I had fragged him a couple dozen times over the years so it is still out there somewhere (hopefully).

 

[Leyth]

How many SPS are fragged, go to another tank with radical light changes and thrive? In a tank with good water quality, most of them. The common denominator with most SPS is to stabilize the tank (lighting, flow, nutrition, etc) and then leave them alone. Most SPS dislike being moved around, they don't like critters (particularly us) touching them and they don't like water quality changes. They are able to adapt to a fairly wide range of lighting but it takes time. When something changes, they react but usually if the water quality is solid they recover and adapt often to spectacular results. The problem is many hobbyists lack patience and rush in to "fix" the problem. This "fixing" creates more change and they keep going often until it is too late.

That said I did have a very large blue tort (about 12" across) bleach overnight on me after changing old bulbs in an MH fixture for new ones. I also had my hands in the tank scaping, I did a 20% water change and a few other things but the end result was heartbreak. It happens and in that tank during that time it was the only coral to show any kind of reaction. Thankfully I had fragged him a couple dozen times over the years so it is still out there somewhere (hopefully).

I don't have enough experience, but I have done a lot of research and this is really what I've come to conclude as well. This hobby seems like a number chasing game, but I think consistency is much more important. You see tanks thriving with so many different lighting setups. Even when it comes to parameters, you see tanks thriving with numbers that are usually considered out of bounds for SPS survivability, but they do just fine.

I try to be hands off as much as possible due to this. Even when making a change, I like to do it slowly over a few week timeframe.