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Originally Posted by danny zubot
So I guess my question is this; Is a coral's metabolic rate directly related to the light intensity that it is exposed too?
Danny
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nope.. kinda nothing to do with light.. Temp will however speed up or slow down the rate. All more light is going to do is make more food available from the algae... if the coral is already getting enought food more light will reduce the amout of algae in the coral making it more colorfull to a point. there is so much that is just as important if not more important than light, water flow being one of them.. but alk is required for the coral to be able to excreet Ca from its tissue to build more skeliton.. and so on..
I had a 400 watt 10K on a 55gal.. worked great.. it is all in how you aclimate the coral to the new light.. if you do bleach a coral they normaly will recover..
Steve
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