Well i just got my new lights on the 150 reef and now everyhting has gone haywire.... all was good till the new lights came into play...... everything is not opening and drooping...... all the fish seem to be awesome, but the corals look like ther are going to shit the can...... will lights have an effect on the water parameters........ i had a nitrate spike and im goign to do a 50% water change and see if that helps..... but it was all goos till the lights came.....

any ideas?

i was having some issues with some of my pom pom xenia, yet my other xenia wasnt having any probs with thriving. here is something "jdak" told me. and this can poss be a prob since you have upgraded.........

Fri Jul 23, 2010 10:44 pm GMT Reply
"What kind of lighting are you using? What is the placement in your tank? And how much current?

My recent experience is when i was using PC lighting and had a somewhat lower current tank with mushrooms and softies, mine completely thrived. Once i upgraded to some really strong MH lighting and upped my current for SPS, they quit pulsating as strong. They are now in a lower corner with lower light and flow. They are doing better but just aren't like they were. My xenia and button polyps are the only two coral who didn't like the lighting upgrade. Also, if you keep them lower in the tank, they like to grow toward the light meaning they climb up the rock, splitting along the way. If you have them placed high, they have nowhere to climb and they usually won't climb down."

THanks heredia I'll use that info too!