Wild acros and LEDs

[duke62]

Please if you have other lights dont comment. Its not a LED bashing thread. Keep the wise comments to yourselves. Ok with that said we all know wild acros have a tendency to not do well in some peoples tanks. With LEDs it gets a little tougher especially with the lighter pinks. Does anyone have pics of wild pinks under LEDs. If so how high do you keep the coral. Now I would like to know how high your lights are from the top of the water and how low from the top of water to your rocks. Also what LEDs are you running. My pinks seem to do better when they are mid tank and after a month of acclimating.

 

[arnaldolex]

i got a nice pink stylo like the size of a orange its about 8 inches from water line and my ai sol blues are 12 inches about water line

 

[sunny]

I have at least 4 pink colonies at different places and they all do well.

I will post some pics later tonight.

Sunny

 

[sunny]

Did someone say pink?

This is placed in the top 1/3 of the tank.

In the bottom 1/3 of the tank.

About 4 inches below water surface.

8 inches below water surface.

12 inches from bottom.

Sunny

 

[Rob&Gab]

not really a problem here. Also these are sitting 1-2" below the waters surface Lights hanging 12" above the water line.

Gab Glued them to the overflow box.


If anything the really really lighter ones turn a deep pink.

 

[jackson6745]

Rob the color in the second pic looks correct. Which LED fixture are you using and what intensity?

 

[Rob&Gab]

we have 4 different pink millies, also its the IT2040 got 2 fixtures hanging over the top, we do ramp up ramp down threw out the day the peek for whites are peeking at 50-60% i forget exact number, Blues hit 90% and back down. The pictures dont do justice, In person its 10X better.