Just upgraded to two A360NE from a chinese black box. Whats the best way to proceed until the controller arrives?

[dtruitt]

Just bought some A360NEs on a bit of a whim. I've been disappointed with the coverage from the Chinese black box, and I dont know if I acclimated the tank correctly.

Controller will arrive on Monday. In the meantime, manually controlling the brightness and color settings is a real pain. What's the best course of action until then?

I'm thinking about setting brightness to minimum and color to straight blue for the next few days. Tank is about 50/50 sps and LPS. Any risk to livestock proceeding this direction?

 

[LetItReef]

I would do the same to start the intensity and color to a minimum.
Kessil has some power.

 

[dtruitt]

I would do the same to start the intensity and color to a minimum.
Kessil has some power.

I ended up running around half power. The kessils look great, but they're actually pretty tame compared to the 300w beast of a chinese black box we were using.

I'm hoping that the improvement in light quality will translate to some meaningful improvements in coral health and color.