Help w acclimating from 70W halide to LED

[vlapinta]

I have a 12 gallon cube. Currently I am using a 70W MH 14K bulb. I have 2 clowns, some zoas on the bottom and a few frags of tree coral and 1 pumping zinia. I just bought an LEd light which has 36 Dual Daylight/36 Dual Actinic LEDs, 72 LEDs Total. It is 18W. What is the best way to acclimate my current corals to this light. Any help is appreciated.

[Ratpack]

Is the light dimmable?

[pkirby]

that fixture is using 1/4 watt LED's... I don't think you'll have to worry much about acclimation. If you have access to a PAR meter from a LFS or possibly a local reef club I'd be curious what kid of PAR it's producing... that's a lot of LED's, but very low power. If it's dimmable then you can turn it down to 50% or so and increase it over a couple weeks... if it's not dimmable then you can either raise it higher above the water level or put it on a timer and start off with something like 4 hours a day and gradually increase the length it's on over a couple weeks.

[vlapinta]

Sorry I should have mentioned that it is dimmable. I don't have a par meter or access to one.

[vlapinta]

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My tank is 12" deep so I should get better PAR readings