Ok so some of my easy to keep/lower light sps have been slowly dying. I could figure it out for the life of me as my levels have been stable for a long time now( 5 months +) and nothing has gotten into my tank. I will post levels at the end of this. When ever I add a new sps coral it does good for a few weeks then all of a sudden I see white tips. I think ok great its growing I'm happy. But then algae grows on those spots and that shows it's just skeleton. The only sps that have been growing like wild fire and happy as can be is my WD and strawberry shortcake, which we all know love high intensity lighting. I found out a while back that I was using my light all wrong and only had 1hr of peak light (I'm stupid lol). At peak intensity I had it at max 70% for some channels. This is my first time using leds in all my years of reef keeping. Once I learned what I was doing wrong I started uping my peak times very slowly for each hour. I would go up 5% in each channel that could go up. I would wait 2 weeks and up it again. Now I'm at yesterday where I seen someone's post on another forum about burning there sps and the pics they had looked just like my affected sps. Now I'm thinking to myself I'm on the right path of upping the amount of peak time but is my intensity to strong now? I want to lower it to be around 50-60% and I dont know if I have to slowly reduce it or can I just drop it down to those levels? I currently only have about 6hrs of peak time on my reefbreeders. This is what I have my channels set too
Ch 1. 5%
Ch 2. 5%
Ch 3. 70%
Ch 4. 25%
Ch 5. 70%
Ch 6. 70%
These are my current water levels
Sg 1.026
Alk 9.1
Cal 450
Mag 1365
N03 5ppm
P04 0.07
Ch 1. 5%
Ch 2. 5%
Ch 3. 70%
Ch 4. 25%
Ch 5. 70%
Ch 6. 70%
These are my current water levels
Sg 1.026
Alk 9.1
Cal 450
Mag 1365
N03 5ppm
P04 0.07