Zoanthids and mushroom long stalk?

[biologicalme]

So once again, I recently changed my lighting to leds (maxspect razor 160w) it's sitting 10" above my 30g cube. I don't have anything to measure par values. The approximate distance from the light to the bottom of the tank is about 2ft. The intensity is 45%white and 57%blue. I don't know if I should crank up the intensity of the leds since the mushrooms and zoas on the bottom of my tank seem to be reaching for the light. Or should I just increase one color (whites vs blues)? Thanks

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[Wankel]

I would do an overall increase of like 10% per week and take note. Sometimes my zoa's reach but I haven't changed any lighting.

 

[biologicalme]

I would do an overall increase of like 10% per week and take note. Sometimes my zoa's reach but I haven't changed any lighting.

Thanks for the tip. So go up 10% on each channel a week?

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[Wankel]

Yeah that would be my recommendation, I had LEDs for a while and they are SUPER powerful, you will kill or bleach out your coral if you do it too fast.

 

[standaman4]

I would even do 5% each week... LED's are powerful =)

 

[cowboycove]

Try and supplement some t5 until it fully gets use to LEDs. All my montis bleached even though u went from 4 bulb t5 to 2 bulb t5 with 12 3w LEDs running at about half. I'm slowly increasing the power. But yes. They are very bright.

 

[biologicalme]

Thanks for the help guys
I increased each channel by 5% two days ago and the mushrooms went down and spread out flat the zoas still seem to be reaching but I'll see if a 5% increase next week will change that

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