I went ahead and dropped total brightness down to 82%. That put the PAR numbers all ~25-30% higher than original. I will see what response that gets and then go up from there hopefully. The whole reason i want to go up is from the reading I have been doing on PAR values around some of the SPS I'd like to keep.

Things were looking pretty good before. Every time I tweak my mitras I bleach coral so I don't change it anymore. Good luck :lol:

How much would you tweak the brightness and still see bleaching? I wonder if I went too much even raising the PAR 25%?

Now I am second guessing myself.... I am going to go dial it down some more...

RR Ultimate Orange Passion
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RR Wolverine
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IAS Strawberry Shortcake
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IAS Cali Blue Tort
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RR Blue Matrix
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RR Tropical Hurricane
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Wicked Bonsai
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Blue Hammer
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Mummy Eye & Dark magic Chalice
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Sweet grape chalice
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IAS M. palawanesis
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DV Mystic Monti
http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-vbs88Q8-L.jpg

I know I might be a little paranoid but is this an egg string?

http://www.lithicimages.com/photos/i...-w3rP7v2-L.png

I am told that this is a new polyp forming and I have nothing to worry about :)

hey buddy tank is looking fine. what program do you have your mitras set at could ya post it would like to try another set up

I loaded up my 82% brightness file to a shared dropbox folder.

Link

This project runs around 400 Par at the waters surface with the Mitras 6100HV (9.5" above water surface, High Efficiency Mode (set at 100%)). The colour temp is around 14K at the noon peak and dips to ~21K morning and evening.