New (first) corals, need some advice/opinions

[gregzz4]

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[Madreefer]

I have a different opinion when it comes to browning out when it comes to LEDs. I've been running mine for 16 months. I had my ups and downs with my lights for the first little while and than my corals took right off once I thought I had them figured out. I decided I needed to get some more to supplement my reds. So since I was adding more I turned my lights down from 100% to 70% intensity. After 2 months of this the browning out and slow growth started. Cranked the intensity back up to 100% and since that time my growth has picked back up and the color is coming back. I'm not near my tank right now but I will post a pic later as I have a red monticap that will show you as the new growth is red rather than the brown it has turned. In my case I strongly beleive it was a lighting problem and not nutrient related. With your tank being setup with LEDs from the start i'd have them cranked up. And I agree that your corals will not have that same pop as they do under MHs

[MMAX]

Your digi needs to be as high as you can put it in your tank in a high flow area. I purchased a digi frag a few months ago that was pure white until it became less stressed from the move and acclimated to my lighting. Took a couple of weeks. Beautiful purplish-blue color now.

[SmallFry]

Thanks for the help, I tried feeding the favia tonight, one or two polyps did try eating some mysis although I've no idea how much I must've pumped into the tank in the process. I guess I'd better just hope the algae scrubber is up to the job. Having to repel two cleaner shrimp didn't help - those things are faster than ninjas...

I'm still not quite sure what to do with the montipora, it's perfectly happy as far as I can tell, just brownish. Who knows, perhaps that's the colour it's supposed to be. I might try giving it a week or so to see what it does before trying moving it up into more flow for two reasons; one is that I want to let it acclimatize, and secondly I'll need to get some epoxy to hold it in place before I can raise it to the upper rocks. The flow up near those korallia 1400s actually makes the turbo snails vibrate when they're up there..