PAR Meter for NICREW 150W Saltwater Aquarium LED Reef Light

PAR Meter for NICREW 150W Saltwater Aquarium LED Reef Light - Lighting test for dying corals.

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PAR Meter for NICREW 150W saltwater aquarium LED Reef Light. Lighting test for dying corals. What is PAR for saltwater tank? Corals need the right amount of light to survive and it turns out I think I was starving my corals. I wasn't sure how much light this NICREW 150W light put out so I always had to guess. I wasn't using enough light. I highly recommend this VBR-Aqua PAR Meter for saltwater Aquariums.
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@ROTTERtube 7 ай бұрын

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@bredner94 7 ай бұрын

Hope your corals get better. The niccrew is such a good ligth I had a mix tank and grew everything. I didn't have a PAR meter so I went from the minimim all the way to 50 porcent.

@jbreefer148 4 ай бұрын

I just ordered the same par meter and I'm looking forward to seeing how this works for setting up my lights for my corals.

@ROTTERtube 4 ай бұрын

It's a great meter. I found that running my blue lights on 30% is what is needed for my tank. May go down to 25%.

@swordsman111982 7 ай бұрын

I have always relied on 100 par on sand bed and your fine

@jmeista4240 7 ай бұрын

Hi I run 100 blue 35 white and you should be fine.

@strat1960s 7 ай бұрын

I picked up a PAR meter for my APEX. I used it while dialing in my 8x T5 bulbs and 2 LEDs. Now I just leave it in the tank and use it to tell me when its time to replace T5 bulbs.

@CoralReefkid 7 ай бұрын

How is the biodiversity in your tank? Are there lots of pods, stars, worms?

@ROTTERtube 7 ай бұрын

lots of pods, lots of small white stars (hate them.)

@jamieashton3118 7 ай бұрын

I have a custom 135gallon and 1 Orphek bar because my corals are only small colonys or frags so when I see shading I’ll add another one two but there cheap and perfect par

@ROTTERtube 6 ай бұрын

where did you get it?

@jamieashton3118 6 ай бұрын

I got the tank from a local reefer but he has had a few custom builds this one was brand new and he said the company went bust the orphek bar was from a lfs which I swapped for some fish

@ekainperez1285 2 ай бұрын

Hi. Could you please tell What is your program step by step? I mean hour and % of blue and White? Thanks

@ROTTERtube 2 ай бұрын

I'm still trying to figure this out actually. All tanks are different. I keep them around 45% blue and 5% white.

@johnkonkin2687 7 ай бұрын

i wish you wuld have showin parmetter and wher your sesser was on screen im looking at same light

@ROTTERtube 7 ай бұрын

? I did put the numbers on the screen, and also mentioned them.

@McGD4 7 ай бұрын

Those nicrews r strong 😎 Can bleach coral. Definitely worth a par meter for these

@xisotopex 5 ай бұрын

did you calibrate this par meter? cant tell from the video but it looks like you started using it right off the bat

@ROTTERtube 5 ай бұрын

I have a PAR meter

@enochescobar127 7 ай бұрын

I have a mix reef … I have 5 orphek Atlantic v 4 I have 200 par at the bottom of the tank .. I have no issues with any corals dying from having too much light ! What are your parameters? How old is your tank ? Are you dosing, water chance? Good luck with your tank ! It’s definitely a learning process!

@jasonlazore497 7 ай бұрын

How do you like the orphek lights. I was thinking about getting some for my 210 gallon when I get it set up.

@enochescobar127 7 ай бұрын

@@jasonlazore497 I love it especially the spread they have ! my tank is 96x36x30 I could light the tank with four lights, but I wanted to go with the fifth one to have full coverage without adding any extra light bars

@jasonlazore497 7 ай бұрын

@@enochescobar127 what coral do you have growing with the lights? I'd like to have mostly acro's with some chalices and maybe a few encrusting ones ( leptoseris, cyphastrea, psammacora)

@enochescobar127 7 ай бұрын

@@jasonlazore497 I do have a mixed reef I have a little bit of everything I still need to add more .. I have a few across like 14 or 15 in my tank but getting more next month have a few torches a couple of frogspwans , zoas, pallys , montipora some softies

@jasonlazore497 7 ай бұрын

@@enochescobar127 there's always the glass when you run out of room on the rocks.lol. I'd like to try torches again. How is the coloration of the acro's and montioora?

@karennation3580 4 ай бұрын

I dont know how I have lasted 5 years without a par meter! I just got this today and petrified to see my reading! I was deathly ill 2 years ago and I was down for months! My programs on both my tanks got lost so I chose lps preset mode for my 36 g and my 20 has a strip light so I just stating running it 12 hours a day at with all the lights on but put duct tape over some of the whites, red, greens! At first a lot of corals died on the sand bed in 36 gallon but I was to sick to pick them up daily and snails were bulldozing them! 2 years later all is good but recently found out that noopsyche LPS mode is supposed to be run 18 hours and I have only been running it 12! I dont know what to do now really because I dont know what would happen if I started running it at 18 hours! I used to have it set @ 25 white and I think 85 blue so I dont know what would happen if I go back to that! Not to mention my dumb ass just invested about 3 k in high end zoas and have a ton more corals coming in! I am going to be moving them to a frag tank soon. I guess I will stay home and check the par hourly to see what its ramping up at! My strip light tank( 20 g AIO) I am losing a lot of zoas but I have this funky wire like sea algae that I can get off of my plugs permanely! I pluck it out it comes back. I use perooxide It comes back and I am scared of snails because I thought I saw my conch muching on a zoa and it hasnt opened back since and that was a week ago! What was the setting you had ur lights on when you first got the reading? What didi you decide on at the end? I got a little lost lol. I was typing and watching lol. I hope all is well now. Oh is there a way to get the spectrum? My pat might be fine but my spectrum might be crazy on the one I put tape on! Sorry this is so long! I got carried away! any advice appreciated! I am a long time subscriber!

@ROTTERtube 4 ай бұрын

Hi! Do you have the same light and PAR meter as I do? So many people say to keep the PAR around 100 at the sand bed. My corals were dying when it was that high. The person I buy corals from said 60-80 PAR is best, but my corals were closing up a bit. With these lights, I am at 30% max, and I think that is around 40 PAR on the sand bed. Everything is doing great. My zoas are great. They are on the lower 3rd of the tank.

@sovereignviper90 6 ай бұрын

I know you've been in the hobby for a while, but why does it seem like all your systems have dead coral or fish. Ive ran nicrew reef lights for years with great success with both softies, lps and sps. Please provide to date testing numbers in the videos. Nothing drives me more crazy than hearing water tested great or within range. It takes a long time for corals to die of light starvation

@ROTTERtube 6 ай бұрын

I agree. Remind me again. I have to dig out the paper. I now keep these lights at 60-80 par and it's perfect. My tank doesn't have dying fish. I gave half away and a couple died. Anyway, thanks for watching. Glad your tank is doing well with these lights.

@danielbenjamin8233 4 ай бұрын

What do you have yours set on?

@MatixReef 7 ай бұрын

I run my Nicrews at 100 blue and white jejeje

@ROTTERtube 5 ай бұрын

what size tank do you have? that sounds really strong.

@HNiCDuke 7 ай бұрын

Thats weird that corals were dying, if you had good parameters, especially if they were soft or lps. Ive seen ppl even grow corals with only blue lights. Any light is better than none

@ROTTERtube 7 ай бұрын

My thought was there was not enough light.

@robf3902 7 ай бұрын

Why turn it down so much ? A lot of long term successful reef tank hobbyist have recorded PAR’s of 400- 500and had no trouble Turning it up and working your way down

@ROTTERtube 7 ай бұрын

Algae growth, and also, Keep reading everywhere that 75-150 par is ideal.

@robf3902 7 ай бұрын

You’re wrong. You’re the one who killed your corals. I’ve had a thriving tank for 2 decades. What you quoted is what I’d say is minimum for alot of types of corals. My par is around 200 min on the sand bed for at least 4 hours The key is knowing corals don’t get 12 hours of intense light in the wild. They get intense light for about 6 hours of the 12. My lights are set at 60/35 from 8am until noon. Noon to 5pm 90/70. 5pm to 8pm back to 60/30. Remember the sun is directly shining down intensely for about 5-6 hours.. early morning and evening the sun is not direct. Also remember no matter how strong the par seems near the surface the water blocks the energy you’re measuring. Many enthusiast have shown corals thriving at much higher PAR readings of even at readings as high as 500 par.

@TJ_Southwick 4 ай бұрын

I’m sorry bud but it appears there’s more issues then just lighting

@ROTTERtube 4 ай бұрын

Nah, just the lighting. Once I bought the PAR meter, new corals are great. Others kind of melted.

@moonjuice 7 ай бұрын

"i dont like white"? its not what you like. its what the coral like. blue is for show and white is for grow. your sand bed should be around 125-150 par. a torch coral par requirement is 150-250. sps can grow around 300-500 par. slowly raise your light %, you can shock and burn the corals raising it too fast. gotta acclimate then to the new light settings. I can tell already from the visual of your tank, you have really high phosphates level that is causing cyanobacteria. get some gfo and cycle that.

@ROTTERtube 7 ай бұрын

Blue is for grow, and per this video, white didn't do much for PAR, whereas the blue increased PAR much more. Side note - corals were mostly gone long before some cyano showed on sandbed. Cyano is gone - this video was filmed a few weeks before posting. Thanks for watching.

@BonesSaw1979 7 ай бұрын

I’ve seen nothing saying this is correct. In fact BRS ran tests to show white doesn’t really help much and very few like what it looks like.

@444garage 6 ай бұрын

@@ROTTERtubethis, in the reefword, most would know white is mainly for display..

@craiggeauxtreaux5862 Ай бұрын

Absolutely not. Look at all of WWC light settings. Heavy heavy blue.