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Old January 9th 07, 07:39 PM posted to rec.aquaria.marine.reefs
Wayne Sallee
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Default WHAT CAN I HAVE with these lights

That's rarely a problem. They may not bloom out as much,
but rarely do they really suffer from the increased lighting.

Many a times I've taken corals from low light areas and
put them right under 400watt mh lighting.

It *can* produce a problem, but rarely does.

If you want to play it safe, you can place the corals
lower, and move them up, or reduce lighting , but I'm not
too keen on the idea of the reduce lighting method,
preferring the coral moving method.

Wayne Sallee
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KurtG wrote on 1/9/2007 2:03 PM:
Add Homonym wrote:
Wayne Sallee wrote:
Also since you have two 150 watt small point source lights, you can
put corals up close to those lights, and gain quite a bit more light,
whereas florescent light is more spread out. MH light rules :-)


But if you put corals TOO close to the light, and they WILL bleach...



Yeah, I've heard this. I think there was a recent article in the
"Tropical Fish" rag. They recommended introducing new lightly in
increments rather then just a swap out.

I was planning to radically cut back on the hours of light and then ramp
back up to where I am when I get my new lights.

Don't know if that's necessary, but I figure it won't hurt anything.

--Kurt

 




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