introducing more light...help needed ASAP (please)

[lafish]

I have an oppty to add about 60 more watts PC to my 30 gallon tank that has 120 watts pc at the moment. It would be great to have the 6 watts per...but I was wondering how I go about adding the new light w/out stressing the corals in my tank...or melting the mushrooms/polyps (if that happens). Any help would be appreciated greatly.

 

[thomas712]

120 to 180, not to really worry, go for it, your corals will most likely not stress that much if at all. You may see a little more algae for a while is all. If anything I can see your corals responding favorably.
This is not a major change in lighting where I would say to cut back on your schedual for several hours and build it back up slowly.
Thomas

 

[jugger]

i agree its not a big change.... but to be on the safe side i might cut the time down a tad and slowly increase it....and yeah you will see alittle more algae and maybe even some cyno or diatoms

 

[lafish]

very helpful...thanks for the quick response...

 

[nicky1.8t]

i dont see a problem just keep an eye out:happy: