Andrew6000
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Please help…I can’t tell if Im giving too much light or too little.
My corals & GBTA have done really poorly since changing my lights from PC lights to Taotronics dimmable LEDs. First, the Nem crawled into a hole and died, then the few SPS frags I had wasted away. Even the mushrooms aren’t opening like they used to…nothing is!
Water params are good according to my API test kits (0 nitrates, 0 ammonia, high calcium, stable ph around 8.3).
In order to acclimate to the new lights I’ve been running the lights about 6 hours @ 40% for blues and lowest setting on whites for 4 hours a day (whites are pretty bright). I also get some sunlight in the tank during the day since its right by the window.
Could it be that the dead nem killed off the corals? I didn’t know he was dead in there, so I waited 2.5 days to pull it out. He’d been acting sickly for a while. Still, none of the coral looked very good after changing the lights. I cant tell if theyre getting too much light or not enough! Thanks for the advice!
My corals & GBTA have done really poorly since changing my lights from PC lights to Taotronics dimmable LEDs. First, the Nem crawled into a hole and died, then the few SPS frags I had wasted away. Even the mushrooms aren’t opening like they used to…nothing is!
Water params are good according to my API test kits (0 nitrates, 0 ammonia, high calcium, stable ph around 8.3).
In order to acclimate to the new lights I’ve been running the lights about 6 hours @ 40% for blues and lowest setting on whites for 4 hours a day (whites are pretty bright). I also get some sunlight in the tank during the day since its right by the window.
Could it be that the dead nem killed off the corals? I didn’t know he was dead in there, so I waited 2.5 days to pull it out. He’d been acting sickly for a while. Still, none of the coral looked very good after changing the lights. I cant tell if theyre getting too much light or not enough! Thanks for the advice!