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Originally Posted by GfordQC
Orcus,
How did you transition your reef to using the T5's? I'm looking to add 4 T5 at the beginning of the new year and was wondering how you acclimated everything.
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If switching from the AB+ full power profile I would switch to my t5ho profile and add 1 bulb a week over a month. When I made the change I just kind of switched thinking everything would be okay since PAR was roughly the same. Well that was a bad idea, I lost some corals and bleached others. I think the downfall was I failed to take into account that even though PAR was the same coverage was worlds better. In essence previously shaded regions of my corals were suddenly blasted with way more PAR then they were used to and they bleached out. After the initial adjustment period though I must say that I couldn’t be happier with the results. Just take it slow and you’ll be alright!
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