montipora lighting

[tomaquar]

I was looking for a suggestion on proper lighting for plate montipora. It seems like the less light I give them the better the color.

Any input ?

[Gorgok]

I have one about mid level in the tank a little closer to the edge and away from the light growing at a fairly nice pace. Not to mention most of the day my yellow leather decides it wants the same light the monti would get, so it pretty much completely shades it.

[dnsfpl]

orange, red, maroon, light green do well in moderate light

purple, cream, yellow, dark green do better in high light

cream, yellow might turn brown if given insufficient lighting

cheers

[Reef Bass]

100 - 300 par.

[Palting]

I have mine high up on the rocks in between 2 150W 10K MH lights, with T5 actinic supplements. I don't have a par meter, but I'd say medium to high range light.

Newly purchased:
http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/ab71/Kalawing/Time%20lapse/IMG_1356s.jpg

9 months later:
http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/ab71/Kalawing/Time%20lapse/IMG_1176s.jpg

[sweedish15]

Red under t5 works for me, quite a bit lower in the tank too.

[tomaquar]

Im a bit confused. One of my montipora is the same as palting's red but when I put it at the same level as my birds nest it started to lose color. I dont know what the par is there but the birds nest is a neon green and growing nicely. So its happy.

My dark green montipora was starting to turn green again at the level where my candy cane corals are happy but when I moved it up to the level of the birds nest it turned brown again.

The cream with blue polyps seems to be happy anywhere.

My lights are leds, half 5500 k white and half 455 nm blue.

does this make sense to anyone?