Par

[bruce 1]

Where would a list be that has the different corals listed with their PAR rating?

Thank you Bruce

Going to be thinking about my tank setup soon. Putting water in it tomorrow. I have keep all the live rock I bought wet with a air diffuser in it. It all smells good. I do not think it has died. But I guess it will take 2 weeks for it to cycle?

I will post pictures as I start putting it together.

 

[darcurr]

I've never heard of such. I've only seen recommended light (i.e. high, low, etc). Following to see

 

[cr500_af]

I've never seen a "list", but in general, and purely from my own experience in my own tank, I'd say that SPS would like anywhere from 400 up, with higher being better (as long as you don't get out of hand). I haven't exposed SPS to greater than 750 PAR in my tank, so I don't know at what point the color would start to suffer.

LPS do well for me anywhere in the tank, but they color up better in the lower half, so I'd say 350-500 is ideal. However, some LPS (trachyphyllia for example) has shown a preference for semi-low light.

Softies can probably deal with anything around a hundred or more, and each variety has different "sweet spots" to get optimum color and growth (and those two don't necessarily happen at the same spot).

Again, just from what I've seen in my tank.