Acans and LED's

[CoryDude]

I picked up my second vega unit and am currently running a led/vho combo on my 120. So far no problems except for the two acans I have. They're both in the middle on the substrate. The Vegas are about six inches from the water surface. I was originally running 250w halides. Peaks led percentages are 95% for the blues, 90% for whites, and 70% for red/green.

The acans are starting to recede near the edges and have been retracted for the past week or so. Anyone else have problems when they switched from halides to led?

[1seahorse]

Maybe they just need to acclimate to the LEDs?

[FireWater]

I almost cooked some lps when I went to led from t5 and even when I upgraded from the Sols to Vegas. I can tell you that you are running a lot higher levels on your settings than I am Cory. I run whites around 60, all blues around 75-80, reds are at 50 and greens are at 20. Mike (Texreefer) has a nice look to his tank. I somewhat copied his settings since he is running a 60 cube and one vega. My tank is the same footprint as yours.

Also I have my lights higher up than that too.

[Texreefer]

Yea, you may be cooking them.... Like John said, i'm running roughly what he is % wise. but my lights are about 8" off water.. I have an acan I bought at MACNA in Dallas.. one single head is Now 14 heads

[350gt]

Ya I lost a nice colony but neighboring acans did well.... Kinda weird.

Mine are about half down in the tank with my units about 10awl and are nice and fluffy..

[allan]

Mine don't look bad, but they do seem to like it extra low in the tank.


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[EpicWin]

I had exact same issue.

[CoryDude]

The acans and my green/purple mushrooms are the only things having a hard time adjusting. I keep forgetting that led light is different than halides. I'll dial them down a bit and raise the light rack a few inches.

[EpicWin]

I moved mine to lower light

[Big_Pun]

ive had no problems at all with the new leds on the 150 with all my corals. emily has some nice acans undr the radion which is at 70% and her acans are great. mayeb your tank is too "clean". emily has her light at 70% acans at the bottom, i also have most my lps on the bottom in my 150.