Avoid These 20 Reef Tank Lighting Pitfalls!

Don't make these 20 saltwater aquarium lighting mistakes! Today, join up with Ryan and Matthew as they go through not only common mistakes reefers make, but also so that you may not have thought about. Have a mistake that didn't make our list? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00 Introduction
00:16 Selecting What’s Popular, Not What’s Right
01:04 High PAR Can Be Dangerous
02:56 Assuming What Works on a One Inch Frag Will Work on an Colony
04:02 Assuming That Not Dying is the Same as Thriving
05:56 Getting Lost in a Sales Pitch or Brand
06:52 Missing That High Flow and High PAR are Intertwined
07:54 Good Enough is Rarely Good Enough
09:04 Constant Upgrades and Swap Outs
10:33 Missing with the Spectrum
11:31 Assuming You Can Guess the PAR
13:22 Forgetting to Return Your PAR Meter When You’re Done
14:20 Choosing Aesthetics Over Biology
16:53 Assuming One Blue Spectrum is as Good as Another
18:10 Thinking Shadows Don’t Matter
19:23 Changing the Spectrum Throughout the Day
21:00 Creating a Cord Octopus Disaster
22:29 Getting Hung Up on the Perfect PAR
24:09 Missing That Color and Florescence Different Things
26:55 High PAR Feeds Pests as well as Coral
28:53 Not Realizing That UV Can Change The Corals Perceived Color
30:46 Lack of Green, Orange and Red Can Change Florescence
32:25 Not Realizing the Reflectivity of Glass
34:52 Not Understanding Shimmer
36:52 Matthew’s Takeaway
37:20 Ryan’s Takeaway

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