photo periods

[Doug]

Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

Who is Doug?

Man...I am getting really confused now.

[lorenz0]

Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

Who misdiagnosed what issue?

he thinks i mis-diagnosed my issue. this wasn't an issue though, common fact. For instance, one of the new milli's i picked up off of snappy turned white on the side facing the light, but the side that isn't still looks great. also i have found that stylo and birds nests are great indicator corals when it comes to to much light. the only birds nest that can actually withstand the higher light is the pink one while bith my other types and the stylo start to lose base color and bleach out.

but this thread was suppost to be a helpful link, not an issue i am facing

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

he thinks i mis-diagnosed my issue. this wasn't an issue though, common fact. For instance, one of the new milli's i picked up off of snappy turned white on the side facing the light, but the side that isn't still looks great. also i have found that stylo and birds nests are great indicator corals when it comes to to much light. the only birds nest that can actually withstand the higher light is the pink one while bith my other types and the stylo start to lose base color and bleach out.

but this thread was suppost to be a helpful link, not an issue i am facing

Oh ok...I guess I figured out who Doug is then.

Sounds like you have the "diagnosis" right then. I too have lost corals to bleaching from too much light too quickly. I agree about the birdsnest too--have to be careful about how much light they get. Even my hot pink birdsnest turns pale in high light. Once I moved it to lower light, it colored back up.

[fishytime]

Dude....your tank is less than two months old....period. Ask others here how old they feel a tank should be before it can sustain sps? I have the exact same light you have and the depths of our tanks are similar. Your acros are not losing color because of the light. Your tank simply isnt ready for some of the more sensitive sps. Hence the reason I recommended montis or birdsnest if you wanted to try putting some sps into a tank that young.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by fishytime

Dude....your tank is less than two months old....period. Ask others here how old they feel a tank should be before it can sustain sps? I have the exact same light you have and the depths of our tanks are similar. Your acros are not losing color because of the light. Your tank simply isnt ready for some of the more sensitive sps. Hence the reason I recommended montis or birdsnest if you wanted to try putting some sps into a tank that young.

Why don't you start a new thread about this issue? Or maybe PM him? Just because someone doesn't do something the way you suggest, doesn't mean it gives you the right to harass that person. Not all newbies are willing to take advice...they're already experts, dontcha know?

On the subject...I find this awfully interesting. I would also be really interested to find out if there is a "perfect" PAR/PPFD for individual corals. I bet there is.

[lorenz0]

lol but i am not complaining about major lose of color. My green tabling acro got slightly lighter, but in turn my pink birds nest actually became pink. before it was like a dull purple with blue polyps and now its actually pink. But when i am talking about the light being to intense for certain corals its true. at first i set the stylo higher in the tank and the base orange started to go white, so i moved it back down to the sand and the base color came back. now after 1 day of cutting down the lighting the stylo and the green polyp birdnests are starting to gain color again (the birdsnest bleached out during shipping). I know my tank is young but i haven't lost any colonies, just had some issues with smaller frags. no biggy. but this thread isn't about me, more about an informative link talking about photo periods.