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  1. Basically, there is no correct answer. I could put a Chinese black box of green leds above your tank and increase your perceived PAR to 2000(the meter is dumb and will read 532nm green as PAR), but this would do zero for plants or corals and look ugly as hell.

    PUR is phontsynthetically useable radiation, there’s no PUR meter, because it’s different for everything. 

    My point is you can not use a PAR meter to dictate your lighting choices. “My corals aren’t doing good, PAR meter says I need moar PAR.” Not a good way of doing things.

    Water quality/stability in my opinion is a much more worthwhile obsession. Take a look at guys tanks online that are obsessed about lighting, that should tell you a bit about how important reef lighting is. 

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  2. Turning your whites up isn’t going much for you. There is a huge difference in PAR and PUR, especially in a reef tank. I mostly use my PAR meter to match lighting levels from moving a coral from one tank to another, or if I swap out lightning over a tank, honestly that’s about all it’s good for. 

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  3. I forgot what this is called, but it’s good at sending out galaxea-esque sweepers and zapping it’s neighbors. Probably going to bust this up and kalkpaste it, if anyone is interested in the pieces that break off, give me a holler.

     

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  4. On 3/20/2019 at 10:33 AM, householdofpayne said:

    I will get the pressure gauge hooked up tonight and report back with my inlet pressure to further diagnose. MY inlet TDS is 24ppm, outlet TDS is 0.

    Your raw tap water is 24ppm? 

    I’m wondering how necessary it is to run RO/DI on 24ppm water.

    Way back when we used to run terrible tap water ~400ppm with just dechlor to mix with salt. Not ideal, but it worked.

     

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