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How high off the water line do your lights hang.
How deep is your tank ?
I have a 6 bulb ati fixture
And two reef brights .
1 is xho and the other is the regular model both are blue.
Ati bulb combo is
Blue plus
Blue plus
Purple plus
Coral plus
Blue plus
Blue plus
For the last three months my light schedule has been.
Regular reef bright 2-12
Xho 3-11
4 bulb ati 4 -10
2 bulb ati 5-9
I have the lights hanging about 10 inches off the water .
My experience so far is small polyps losing color and pale sps.
Growth is awesome but colors are very pale .
I just changed up my lighting schedule so the ati are on longer then the leds to see if that helps .
Oh yea it will also help to know the water depth of your tanks.
My tank is shallow only 16 inches tall that could def be a factor also
I run a 7 bulb fixture with ATI bulbs and two Reefbrite XHO units. Both of the XHO's are blue.
I run:
3 Pure Actinic
3 Blue+
1 Purple+
My schedule is from 1:00 PM to 11:00 PM.
The XHO's run the entire schedule. I run mostly actinic up until about 5 or 6 PM where all the lights fire up. Things begin to taper down around 9 PM.
Getting great growth and color but it's a very blue look.
Two more quick questions .
What your tanks dimensions?
And how high off the water does your fixture hang?
Thanks
8 bulb at I 8 bulb sun power, ran with a 36" reefbright tech silver version over a 48*24*12. Nothing hanging 17" above the tanks rim 18" off the waters surface,6bulbs kick on at12pm 2bulbs Kik on at 1pm 6bulbs turnoff at 5pm 2bulbs witch are at I actinic and reefspec 22k actinic turn off at 7-8pm depending when time I shut them off. The reef bright is on from 12pmtill about 9pm.
SPS HEAVY all corals and ZOA's monties act. Sitting g 6" under the waters surface. With a RW8 RIGHT SIDE OF TANK ran on w1 knob turned 3/4th way too the right. And full power I have fish and 1.5" sandbed frag/display
Colors with my bulb combo are amazing g grow is awesome, but it also I 70% of your levels if there stable or not and phos and nitrates And all cal mag ext. Lol
Solljust give full detail while I'm at it
Salt ESV watercanged ever2weeks some time once every few months 3weeks.
Alk7.5-8 hanna
Cal 410-440 salifert
Mag 1350-1380 salifert
Nitrates 10ppm salifert
Phos .03 Hanna
Saline level 24-26
Nothing in the sump beside a filter sock and a reefoctopus diablo DC skimmer , I Manual dose and top off.
Got some macro alage in the oerflo that's it lol.
I have the ATI sunpower 6x54w non dimmable with a 48" reefbrite Blue LED strip bolted to the front of it. Looks like they are meant to be together.
Bulb Combo:
ATI Blue +
ATI Purple +
ATI Blue +
ATI Coral +
ATI Blue +
ATI Blue +
Height from water: approx 6"
Light Schedule from Apex:
Reef Brite:
If Time 09:00 to 22:30 Then ON
Actinics:
If Time 11:00 to 21:30 Then ON
Daylights:
If Time 13:30 to 19:00 Then ON
Notes:
I originally purchased the reefbrite to get more pop from my challices. Now that I am more SPS dominant, I keep the LED lights because they add a nice blue tint to my water and helped me get my desired light color that I have been seeking for like 6 years. The Reefbrite still adds an extra "pop" to the corals. You definitely notice the difference with it on and off. Hard to say on whether or not it increased growth or not. I have had it on my tank for so long that I never noticed anything substantial growth wise. I should add that I have had to replace the power supply twice in probabaly 4 years or so.
I hope this helped. I highly recommend you getting one.