 
			
				10-28-2012, 03:46 PM
			
			
			
		  
	 | 
	
		
		
		
			  | 
			
			
				
				
				 Member 
				
				
			 | 
 | 
			  | 
			
				
				
					Join Date: Mar 2012 
					Location: Calgary, AB 
					
					
						Posts: 1,062
					 
					
					
					     
				 
				
			 | 
		 
		 
		
	 | 
	
	
	
		
			
			
				 
				
			 
			 
			
		
		
		
		
	Quote: 
	
	
		
			
				
					Originally Posted by  camaro7019
					 
				 
				Its your ai sols, they are not on bright enough, i had this problem with mine, i switched from 2 150 watt metal halides to 2 ai sol's and i started them at 50% on blue royal and white 12" from water, i started getting rapid tissue necrosis on my main acropora colony,  i thought maybe it was to much light, but then i noticed my green star polyps were going brown, i still thought too much light but i thought na cant be, so i kicked them up to 80%  guess what,  it was the light lol  my green starts are growing so fast, my sps are growing like crazy!!!  turn your lights up man, atleast to 50-60% 
			
		 | 
	 
	 
 
	Quote: 
	
	
		
			
				
					Originally Posted by  Aquattro
					 
				 
				Ya, I gotta agree with that. While that might have been a good starting value, I would of ramped those up a bit every few days until you got to at least 60% range. 
Mine are 6 inches off the water and 100/100/85 and we've all been discussing how that maybe isn't enough light to keep the colors where they were. 
			
		 | 
	 
	 
 
That is so counter intuitive when I've got bleached corals! I've asked for advice,  so I'll do it.
 
Can I do 1% per day?  
		
	
		
		
		
		
			
				__________________ 
				Shelley
			 
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
	 |