AI Prime lighting schedule help

[ajtomase]

Hello everyone,

I'm getting a 56 gallon tank (Reefer 250) and adding 2 AI Primes to it. I plan on it having both fish and LPS corals in it. Below is my fish/coral list

Fish
Lawnmower blenny
Blue reef chromes
Ocellaris clownfish (2)
Blue mandarin (once tank is fully established)
Tricolor Fairy Wrasse
Firefish
Banggai Cardinal Fish
Royal Gramma Basslet
Yellow Watchman Goby

Invertebrates
Banded torches snail
Tiger sand conch
Durasa clam
Tiger pistol shrimp
Scarlet skink cleaner shrimp
Blue tuxedo urchin

Corals
Green star polyps
Hammer (branching)
Frogspawn coral
Candy cane
Micromussa
Duncan
Zoanthid



Besides the Signature Series on the AI website, I'm curious to know what your schedules and what schedule is best for LPS corals. For the Signature Series on the AI website, should I just pick one that I like? Do I need to measure PAR in my tank before picking a schedule? Anyone have a lighting schedule they particularly have seen great results with?

Thanks!

 

[Oscar47f]

You can go on AI Signatures and choose a proven lighting schedule from there... if not you can use the BRS recommended spectrum just look it up on google ! Both should work wonderfully

 

[ajtomase]

You can go on AI Signatures and choose a proven lighting schedule from there... if not you can use the BRS recommended spectrum just look it up on google ! Both should work wonderfully

Thanks, but how do I know which one to choose from? All the tanks look great, but not sure which direction to go in.

 

[Oscar47f]

Thanks, but how do I know which one to choose from? All the tanks look great, but not sure which direction to go in.

I would go with whichever tank has the corals you want and the same light you have... you can always adjust it a little but they’re good baseline starting points