Wwc yellow tip acro a high or low light sps ?

[Eddie7144]

Just wondering of placement for this acro. I run an LED t5 set up. Please advise me if it should go high in the tank low, right now its sitting in the bottom of a standard 150 gal tank acclimating. Thanks in advance.

 

[Darth.Daddy12]

Wwc provides great detail as to how they keep their corals. Go to their sight click in the coral and click on parameters. That’s not just their recommendation but what they keep that specific coral at in house.

That aside.. it’s alwaus wise to put in a lower par area at first to accumulate. See how it responds directly to your tank and keep moving it around till you find where it’s happy. Then remove from plug and place.. this should take you weeks to do... it takes a week at a time for a coral to adjust to flow and lighting unless they are way out of normal.. you’ll know where to not put it within a couple hours.. you’ll know where I can be in a few hours.. you won’t know where it stays happy under your specific flow and lighting for a week.. it could looks great for first few days then plumit after that.. it takes time..

 

[rawrsean]

I have my colony (soccer ball size) in a medium to high par area of my SPS tank. I run gen 4 xr30s and 4 t5s. Radions are st 75%.

There’s more light in the tank than you’d typically find, but it’s an SPS tank, so don’t take “medium to high” as “medium to high” for corals, when instead you should read “medium to high” for SPS.

Hope that makes sense, lol.

 

[Darth.Daddy12]

I have my colony (soccer ball size) in a medium to high par area of my SPS tank. I run gen 4 xr30s and 4 t5s. Radions are st 75%.

There’s more light in the tank than you’d typically find, but it’s an SPS tank, so don’t take “medium to high” as “medium to high” for corals, when instead you should read “medium to high” for SPS.

Hope that makes sense, lol.

It really didn’t lol.. medium to high is typically 100-200par..

In sps dominate tank likely for most it’s 400-450ish. Depends on the tank and purpose.. I’d keep to 350 for sps personally but I’m not looking to frag either.. someone who’s sps frsgging could be running 6-700 par and see 500 as medium high.. that’s why I like wwc literature they stick to norms..

The following is from BRS but follows WWC guidelines.. so is good reference when they say a coral is medium-high etc what par should be..

 

[SeaDweller]

I have mine at the bottom of my tank, about 36” from the light and it’s growing great. Ymmv

 

[SeaDweller]

Mines been in this spot for 5+ months at the bottom of the tank, probably receiving 150-200 par tops? Maybe? And it’s definitely growing well. Had I had the space, I’d probably place it higher up.

 

[jda]

Acropora Austera does not always need a lot of light, but it will respond if you give it more. This one is a no-trick corals that will look and grow best under strong wide-spectrum light. I have had them look really awesome at 400+ PAR from Metal Halide and they get even more than this in the frag tank. This is one that I like to keep up high even though it will do fine down lower.

 

[Darth.Daddy12]

Mines been in this spot for 5+ months at the bottom of the tank, probably receiving 150-200 par tops? Maybe? And it’s definitely growing well. Had I had the space, I’d probably place it higher up.

150-200 par at the bottom? What lights and how shallow is your tank? It can be done but usually to get that at the bottom of a normal tank you’d be burning the top of the tank up at 800 plus unless you have a tone of diffusion.

 

[SeaDweller]

150-200 par at the bottom? What lights and how shallow is your tank? It can be done but usually to get that at the bottom of a normal tank you’d be burning the top of the tank up at 800 plus unless you have a tone of diffusion.

Last I checked (using lux to par conversions) it was about 150 at the sandbed, some areas might have been higher, maybe not 200. My lights are 13” from the water line and that WWC YT is about 22” from the water line, so it’s about 35” from the lights source. The tank is 24” deep, so not shallow.

I’m running four 48 photon V2+ over my tank.

 

[Darth.Daddy12]

Last I checked (using lux to par conversions) it was about 150 at the sandbed, some areas might have been higher, maybe not 200. My lights are 13” from the water line and that WWC YT is about 22” from the water line, so it’s about 35” from the lights source. The tank is 24” deep, so not shallow.

I’m running four 48 photon V2+ over my tank.

Ok that light will defiantly do it lol. Best lights on market imop.. But still what is your par up top? Has to be close to 1k which is way over kill. Never seen Benefits Of over 5-600 par.. that light can burn sps down low lol. Are you really running it at 100% intensity like that? Not hating just trying to figure out how your tank isn’t on fire for learning lol.

 

[SeaDweller]

Ok that light will defiantly do it lol. Best lights on market imop.. But still what is your par up top? Has to be close to 1k which is way over kill. Never seen Benefits Of over 5-600 par.. that light can burn sps down low lol. Are you really running it at 100% intensity like that? Not hating just trying to figure out how your tank isn’t on fire for learning lol.

It’s about 5-600 at the surface and like 400-450 about 6” down, something close to that when I checked. I’m not running 100%. Keep in mind, I’m running FOUR units.

That’s why I used a cheap lux meter (vs a par meter) and got a rough estimate because I’d never use the meter again, and haven’t.

 

[Guttersnipe]

I think this is one of those corals
That will grow anywhere in your tank. This coral is very affordable, easy to keep, grows fast, and looks good.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Guttersnipe, amazing growth form on that yellow tip.

I would say more par and you can pull out more color in the tips and more blue in the coralites and branches. This coral can grow extreemly fast when it’s happy, I cut mine up because it grew to fast for the system I had at the time.

 

[roberthu526]

150-200 par at the bottom? What lights and how shallow is your tank? It can be done but usually to get that at the bottom of a normal tank you’d be burning the top of the tank up at 800 plus unless you have a tone of diffusion.

I don’t know if that’s true. I get 200+ par at the top of my tank and 170 at the sandbed. My tank is 24” deep. I use 8 Radion G4 pros over 8 feet. I think as long as your lights are spread out you can get fairly even par from top to bottom. I know quite a few people grow Acro from top to bottom.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

150-200 par at the bottom? What lights and how shallow is your tank? It can be done but usually to get that at the bottom of a normal tank you’d be burning the top of the tank up at 800 plus unless you have a tone of diffusion.

I get 3-350 on the bottom.

 

[Waters]

Those of you running lower par, are you still seeing the colored up tips? My small colony grows quick and has decent color, but is lacking the yellow tips. It is sitting around 150-200 PAR off to the side about halfway up underneath a T5/Radion hybrid. I came to the conclusion that it needed higher PAR to bring out its colors but at this point it has grown too large to move lol.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Those of you running lower par, are you still seeing the colored up tips? My small colony grows quick and has decent color, but is lacking the yellow tips. It is sitting around 150-200 PAR off to the side about halfway up underneath a T5/Radion hybrid. I came to the conclusion that it needed higher PAR to bring out its colors but at this point it has grown too large to move lol.

Do you have any pictures?

 

[Waters]

Do you have any pictures?

This is the only one I have currently.........

 

[LeftyReefer]

Mine was doing well until my nitrates dropped to zero and then it RTN'd overnight.
I was only able to frag off and save a tiny tip and it has since recovered and is starting to grow again, but at the moment, it's only about a 1/2" long tiny nug. Mine has always been in 400 or so PAR in my tank and done well. hoping it regrows now that I've got my nitrates back off zero.

 

[pecan2phat]

About 375 PAR level: