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They are coloring up well since I cut the OR3's down to 1.5 hours dawn and dusk and 2 hours at peak. It's really more like 600 PAR for 7 hours and 700 for 2 hours. Here's what they looked like early on. The green polyped stag used to be blue. It's turning purple base with green polyps. The dark...

I liked the scape when it was more open. I'm trying to stuff more frags in there and got some Aqua Rocks that I cut up to try to fit them in until I can figure out where to ultimately mount them. bt

Here's a couple corals under about 700 PAR (intermittent, about 2 hours a day at peak)

People helping people, generosity, wanting to help, who are you people!

Oh! Never been to a BAR swap or any swap really. If someone can figure out how to spend $100 to benefit the club, LMK.

Are these raffle Tix? I'll donate $100 in Tix for members attending. Unfortunately I can't make it. If someone will purchase and pass them out, I'll send you the $.

Will there be a raffle?

I'm glad I've been testing, just should be doing it more often, sadly. I did not think the PAR I would get would be that high. Based on what I read about the iCon 24 inches above the sand bed I figured I'd be good. I was a little suspicious when things were lightening up. I was also running the...

These are the PAR numbers I got with the OR3s on. The low numbers on the top are for some corals on the backside of the rock work at the bottom.

I thought about stopping and test every day until the Ca and alk are where they were previously. I am going to drop by 15% to slowly get them back into range.

There are definitely exceptions, and i read about slowy bringing coral up to higher par as you refrenced not starting them there. He said zoas were melting, I only bring it up that 500 par at bottom of a mix reef may possibly be responsible. For zoas that's very extreme par levels imo. Thank...

Thanks for the info! I should have gotten or borrowed a PAR meter sooner. I think I would have turned the lights way down and acclimated to the light.

Changed lights from 50% white, 75% blue to 40% channels 1&2, 60% channels 3-6 - 1.5 hour ramp up/down, 9 hours at max, start 0900 OR3 blue plus, 0800-1030 up, 2-4 midday, 1930-2200 down I'll post up the PAR numbers a little later with the new settings.

Maybe so, found this on R2R. Have a couple SPS that are STN'ing and some zoas melting away. Could also be my Ca=500+ and alk=10.5. I'm going to slowly try to reduce these.

Could my PAR be 825 at the top of the tank and 550 at the bottom front? Lights 24" above the sand. Orphek Icon channels 1 and 2 at 45%, channels 3-6 at 55%. Two OR3 blues front and back.

Also changing up the Orphek icon to run 75% blue and 50% white' Lights are ramping up

Finally was able to get the microbubble problem fixed. Made a little slide for the outlet water onto a filter sponge then water flows back into the return chamber. Blue squamosa unfortunately never looked great and has perished. Some new frags

Attempting to keep with the blue theme.

Microbubbles have improved a lot!