Katy Reefer Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I found a guy locally that is willing to sell me the LED hood off his nanocube, so I am going to buy it and upgrade from the 105W PC Quad to the 90W LED. Is there anything that I need to be worried about when doing the change? Do I need to keep the photoperiod short for a little while to allow my corals to adjust to the higher intensity? Current stocking: Zoas low in the tank 3 heads of frogspawn A few ricordea Pink Pulsing Xenia Blue Cespitularia (which hasnt colored up correctly yet under PC) Thanks everyone. This site has been huge in the development of my tank so far. Link to comment
sloo50 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I found a guy locally that is willing to sell me the LED hood off his nanocube, so I am going to buy it and upgrade from the 105W PC Quad to the 90W LED. Is there anything that I need to be worried about when doing the change? Do I need to keep the photoperiod short for a little while to allow my corals to adjust to the higher intensity? Current stocking: Zoas low in the tank 3 heads of frogspawn A few ricordea Pink Pulsing Xenia Blue Cespitularia (which hasnt colored up correctly yet under PC) Thanks everyone. This site has been huge in the development of my tank so far. I went from the stock BC hood to a nanotuners 3.6 LED upgrade. All I did was add 3 layers of window screening to the hood to deflect light, removing one layer every week. My zoa'a and clam love the LED's but my leather did not. The leather had to be moved to the bottom from, where it seems fine now Wes Link to comment
Freakin Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I have a BC29 and pretty much the exact same livestock as you (hammer instead of frogspawn and no Cespitularia). I'm running my white LEDs at 25% and my RB at 45% and after 4-5 days everything is opening up normally and loving the light. (I started at ~35% white and quickly realized it was too much for my tank to switch to) For a few days my rics were not fully opening and my zoas got about halfway open. Now they are all fully open. Just keep an eye on everything and dial back the light until your corals respond well. Link to comment
thewire Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 dimming/layer or height to let the corals slowly adjust to the high intensity light Link to comment
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