Atlantik Compact WiFi

[MattnJayne]

Absolutely love this light. Have seen some really good growth out of my sps that is in my tank. Haven't lost any colour either which is always a good thing.

I am on growth and colour but I mght just switch to colour for a while to see what happens.

[Numbnuts]

I switched mine back to acclimate mode after going up to growth and colour, I was getting way too much algae on the glass on the growth mode. Everything is doing really well on the acclimate mode. Great lights.

[Orphek australia]

How close to the water are your lights?

[MattnJayne]

Mine are somewhere between 30-35cm from water top.

Algae film on the glass is a given and with my tank being 8-9 week old algae on the sand is a given whilst it cycles as I had a mix of old live rock from my nano and fresh base rock.

[Orphek australia]

Mine are somewhere between 30-35cm from water top.

Algae film on the glass is a given and with my tank being 8-9 week old algae on the sand is a given whilst it cycles as I had a mix of old live rock from my nano and fresh base rock.

Yeah agreed if its a new tank DEF.

[MattnJayne]

Anyone else tried measuring the par readings on the compact?

I have and I am a little lost for words.

Light was about 30cm above the water, coral was a further 18cm below, 100% all channels and read was only 160.

Doesn't seem right to me so I have emailed Justin to get his thoughts on it.

Dropped the light 4cm and got the par reading up to 225 on the same coral.

Either I have a faulty unit or they are not that strong which is a little disappointing.

[Orphek australia]

Anyone else tried measuring the par readings on the compact?

I have and I am a little lost for words.

Light was about 30cm above the water, coral was a further 18cm below, 100% all channels and read was only 160.

Doesn't seem right to me so I have emailed Justin to get his thoughts on it.

Dropped the light 4cm and got the par reading up to 225 on the same coral.

Either I have a faulty unit or they are not that strong which is a little disappointing.

Thanks for the emails Matt, I too was a bit lost for words with your figures. Glad it turned out to be the Par meter.

[Numbnuts]

Anyone want to share their current program setting?

I'm struggling with mine. Anything other than slow acclimate mode and I just get crazy hair algae growth. I switch back to acclimate for a while and get back on top of it but my corals really don't like it, I've just lost another one now, started receeding a week or two back and the rest don't open much.

A few weeks back on soft program and they'll come good, but so does the hair algae.

I'm running a turf scrubber and a good size cheato fuge, (which grows like crazy under a desk lamp and LED globe) which is really helping, but I'd like to get a good balanced lighting program dialed in.

I'm runngin two Compacts over a 4ft / 400 litre AquaReef AR400

Cheers.

Cheers.

[Orphek australia]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-07/nftt/index.php

[Numbnuts]

Wow,that's a lot of work! I think I'll just turn the lights down...