Thanks Binford for the info. Good to know that bleaching probably means too much light I have been turning the lights up and lowering them over the last week or so. Probably the dead opposite of what I need to do. They are hung from the celing so I can lower and raise them with ease. I went over the temp thing last week and I actualy lowerd my temp from 78.5 to about 76.5 over a few weeks to help w/ that, but I don't think that is my major issue. My temp and tank paramters are really stable. I have a 120G upstairs and almost another 100G in the sump in the basement. It stays cool in the basement and keeps my temp really stable. Everything is monitored by my reef keeper, salinity, temp, ph, etc. I tested everything last week and all was good so I don't think that is the problem. Its almost definiteily light related. During my testing I did stumble across one thing I was neglecting My autotop off resevior needs to be cleaned every once in a while TDS was like 25o in the container and like 002 comming out of the RO/DI. So I did resolve that but that isn't causing this issue.
Originally Posted by binford4000
Bleaching is usually a sign of water issues or too much light. I have been running LED lights on all three of our systems. Like mike stated you really should have used a par meter to set them up correctly. If the lights we're not producing enough par your sps would brown out not bleach. Water tempature is another thing that can also effect sps(temp swings during summer months are hard on sps) I would test your water and if all is well raise your lights up and lower the corals then see if they recover. If they do raise them up a little every week and see how they respond. Good luck
I have been turning the lights up and lowering them over the last week or so. Probably the dead opposite of what I need to do. They are hung from the celing so I can lower and raise them with ease. I went over the temp thing last week and I actualy lowerd my temp from 78.5 to about 76.5 over a few weeks to help w/ that, but I don't think that is my major issue. My temp and tank paramters are really stable. I have a 120G upstairs and almost another 100G in the sump in the basement. It stays cool in the basement and keeps my temp really stable. Everything is monitored by my reef keeper, salinity, temp, ph, etc. I tested everything last week and all was good so I don't think that is the problem. Its almost definiteily light related. During my testing I did stumble across one thing I was neglecting
My autotop off resevior needs to be cleaned every once in a while
Originally Posted by binford4000
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