Any LPS corals tolerate high light?

[Enderturtle]

Are there any lps corals that can tolerate relatively higher light. I want to place something near the top and I dont want colored sticks

Throw out some names.

 

[HiFidelity]

my torches & hammer seem to not care whether they're at the top or bottom of my tank.

 

[bluprntguy]

Most Euphyllia should be able to tolerate higher light levels.

If you target 50-100 PAR on your sand bed, your higher rock areas should be well within range for most LPS. If you don't want to keep colored sticks, there is no reason to be blasting your tank with higher light levels.

 

[bondolo]

Duncanopsammia axifuga seem to tolerate quite varying light levels. I have broken my colony into two pieces and have them at both high and moderate light levels. They don't seem to care.

 

[FeliciaLynn]

My duncan and euphyllias are all in high light and do just fine

 

[F6553066]

Agree with all the above. I wouldn't put them that high at first. Start low and move up a little each week.

 

[neuro]

My acans are happy with my metal halides & actinics. they sit next to my SPS.

 

[Nav]

My acans are happy with my metal halides & actinics. they sit next to my SPS.

Dont acans loose/change color under high lighting?

 

[neuro]

Dont acans loose/change color under high lighting?

Your research is probably better than mines, but so far, I don't see a change in these particular acans that I have up high versus when I put them down low.

I imagine almost anything that gets blasted with intense light will look different

 

[Merith]

A lot of corals can tolerate higher light if their moved up slowly. It's more a matter of if your gonna be happy with how they look in higher light.


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[Merith]

Here is the same acan from two different light set ups. First with super high light second with lower light.

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[F6553066]

I have the same color acans on the top and in the middle and the color of both is the same.

 

[Merith]

Depends on the coral and intensity of lights. The ones I posted first shot is under Orphic cannons second is near the bottom of the tank under ai Vegas. Huge difference in par but kinda gives you an idea of the worst case


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[JAR]

150w ? 250w? 400w? 1000w?

 

[aquatic mouse]

My acans are all at the highest point in my tank.

 

[svk]

My acans are at top.

 

[Spoon]

Here is the same acan from two different light set ups. First with super high light second with lower light.View attachment 1133View attachment 1134


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I'd be interested to see that same coral before and after, but under the same lighting. That way I'd have the best idea of what and how it changed.

 

[DapG8Gt]

I'd say hammers or frogspawn (euphyllia.. Sp? ) in my experience seem to do well in either high or low light without much color loss.. Acans on the other hand for me I need to almost hide them under a ledge to keep the color but I also have an 8 bulb powermodule hanging above the tank with almost 300 par dead center of my sand bed(it's a little excessive =)

 

[Merith]

I'd be interested to see that same coral before and after, but under the same lighting. That way I'd have the best idea of what and how it changed.

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Start of orphic lit acans.
neil acan start by S LaJoie, on Flickr
Start of Ai lit acan
my acan start by S LaJoie, on Flickr

 

[Merith]

You can't see it well in the pic I posted but the Ai Vega ones lost all the green and yellow after about a month. Not really relevant to the topic but still an interesting lighting issue.