Radion lighting schedule

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I was running the Coral Lab template from EcoTech but cut the lights back while dealing with an algae outbreak. Now that the algae is just about taken care of, was wondering what a good suggestion for a new schedule would be. Tank is a year old (almost!) 125G mixed reef with zoanthids, finger leathers, Kenya tree, Duncan, GSP, Stylophora, and deadpool mushroom all growing very well. Hammer coral has grown but very slowly and a torch coral is alive, but hasn't grown at all. Coralline algae has really taken off.

I have 3 XR30w Radions. One Gen 3 and two Gen 4.

Parameters:

pH 8.2 ~ 8.35
Salinity = 1.025
Alkalinity 9.2 ~ 9.8 dKH
Calcium 440 ~ 470
Magnesium = 1360
Nitrate 5 ~ 7
Phosphate = 0.1

Phosphate is down from .44 thanks to increased water changes and Phosguard and I've cut back on feeding. My goal is to keep it around 0.1 ~ 0.05.

Appreciate any input!
 

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This is the schedule I’ve always used on my S650 other than I go blue in the evenings. I’ve also copied a similar schedule in my new system which has 4 XR30 G4 Pros

These are red sea’s reef spec settings and they don’t recommend red/green do to potential algae issues.

Keep your phosphate locked down to around 0.03 and you will avoid many of the problems you may read about

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