Things have seemed to finally stabilize and some things are actually starting to grow back. The fall out was pretty bad, but I've came to a conclusion on what was causing the problems. I actually found someone w/ a PAR meter so that helped me figure out what was wrong.
Basically I was getting too much light, and not enough light if that makes sense The light from the LEDs is very narrow compared to my T5s w/ my 60 degree lens. I had corals near the outside edges that was struggling b/c they weren't getting enough light and then I had corals melting in the center. I had some others mainly the LPS's that didn't care either way. The softies that were high up in my tank had a real hard time and they have started moving themselves out to the edges. My SPS that were on the outside even high in the tank didn't do well b/c of low light.
That was hard for me to diagnose b/c at times it seemed like I had things getting too much light and other times not enough so I got confused. So for me I would say lens choice and height above the water which affects spread were the most important part of getting this right. I've added some 80 degree lens and raised the lights to about 14 inches above the water and things seem to be doing better. Now I'm actually able to raise the intensity of light a fair amount and everything is happy. I did adjust the lights up slowly and I'm now at 85% blue and 70% white and all is good. Its not perfect yet, but I will report back in a while to let you know how things are going.
Things have seemed to finally stabilize and some things are actually starting to grow back. The fall out was pretty bad, but I've came to a conclusion on what was causing the problems. I actually found someone w/ a PAR meter so that helped me figure out what was wrong.
Basically I was getting too much light, and not enough light if that makes sense The light from the LEDs is very narrow compared to my T5s w/ my 60 degree lens. I had corals near the outside edges that was struggling b/c they weren't getting enough light and then I had corals melting in the center. I had some others mainly the LPS's that didn't care either way. The softies that were high up in my tank had a real hard time and they have started moving themselves out to the edges. My SPS that were on the outside even high in the tank didn't do well b/c of low light.
That was hard for me to diagnose b/c at times it seemed like I had things getting too much light and other times not enough so I got confused. So for me I would say lens choice and height above the water which affects spread were the most important part of getting this right. I've added some 80 degree lens and raised the lights to about 14 inches above the water and things seem to be doing better. Now I'm actually able to raise the intensity of light a fair amount and everything is happy. I did adjust the lights up slowly and I'm now at 85% blue and 70% white and all is good. Its not perfect yet, but I will report back in a while to let you know how things are going.
Great news ! Glad to hear it's comeing around for you.
The light from the LEDs is very narrow compared to my T5s w/ my 60 degree lens. I had corals near the outside edges that was struggling b/c they weren't getting enough light and then I had corals melting in the center. I had some others mainly the LPS's that didn't care either way. The softies that were high up in my tank had a real hard time and they have started moving themselves out to the edges. My SPS that were on the outside even high in the tank didn't do well b/c of low light.
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