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These are the PAR numbers I got with the OR3s on. The low numbers on the top are for some corals on the backside of the rock work at the bottom.

I thought about stopping and test every day until the Ca and alk are where they were previously. I am going to drop by 15% to slowly get them back into range.

There are definitely exceptions, and i read about slowy bringing coral up to higher par as you refrenced not starting them there. He said zoas were melting, I only bring it up that 500 par at bottom of a mix reef may possibly be responsible. For zoas that's very extreme par levels imo. Thank...

Thanks for the info! I should have gotten or borrowed a PAR meter sooner. I think I would have turned the lights way down and acclimated to the light.

Changed lights from 50% white, 75% blue to 40% channels 1&2, 60% channels 3-6 - 1.5 hour ramp up/down, 9 hours at max, start 0900 OR3 blue plus, 0800-1030 up, 2-4 midday, 1930-2200 down I'll post up the PAR numbers a little later with the new settings.

Maybe so, found this on R2R. Have a couple SPS that are STN'ing and some zoas melting away. Could also be my Ca=500+ and alk=10.5. I'm going to slowly try to reduce these.

Could my PAR be 825 at the top of the tank and 550 at the bottom front? Lights 24" above the sand. Orphek Icon channels 1 and 2 at 45%, channels 3-6 at 55%. Two OR3 blues front and back.

Also changing up the Orphek icon to run 75% blue and 50% white' Lights are ramping up

Finally was able to get the microbubble problem fixed. Made a little slide for the outlet water onto a filter sponge then water flows back into the return chamber. Blue squamosa unfortunately never looked great and has perished. Some new frags

Attempting to keep with the blue theme.

Microbubbles have improved a lot!

Cool! The more ideas the better! Thanks!

This is how it is setup currently.

Nice, thanks! I'll have to get some. Any specific micron size?

The water flows out of the skimmer out of that little rectangle opening on the right side of the skimmer in the top pic. The bottom of that outlet is about 1.5 inches above the waterline. The skimmer is currently on the right side of the (14.4 inch) middle chamber in the bottom pic. I put an...

Thicker fabric

Will do this evening. Thanks!

Skimmer has been running a month. It's currently running in the section with the return pumps. I'm gonna try and see if it will fit in the next section over. I'm running it into a filter sock.

I have an Aquamaxx WS-1 skimmer. I'm getting a crazy amount of microbubbles. Anyone have any tips to get rid of them?