I have a 180 gallon 7 feet long, 30" deep, 20" wide reef tank that I am getting back into shape and could use some input as to what color settings for my three new NICREW 150W LED lights? These lights each have 72 LED that have six settings for blue and white (100%, 80%, 60%, 40%, 20%, 5%). I am mainly going to do soft easy corals but am open to eventually doing some hard corals possibly? These lights work great as they can easily light down to the sand eventhough my tank is 30" deep.
I mounted the lights using three narrow strips of 3/4" hardwood then laying two tracks of aluminum 1/2" tall by 1" wide strut and glued narrow strips of wood so the aluminum strut is held in place yet can easily be removed to give access, etc. The lights sit 1.25" above the top of the tank and I have the stock TruVue canopy and that works great as the canopy insulates any noise from the light fans and the open back of the canopy give enough air space there and above the lights to keep them from getting hot.
When I had the lights set at 100% blue and 80% white is was way too bright to me? Right now I have them set at 80% blue and 40% white but I really have no clue what the corals want? I appreciate your help.. right now I only have a small frag of: green star polyp, sun king psammocra, war coral favites, and lime green finger leather. The tank has a good amount of live rock about 65-70% the height of the tank and live sand.
I mounted the lights using three narrow strips of 3/4" hardwood then laying two tracks of aluminum 1/2" tall by 1" wide strut and glued narrow strips of wood so the aluminum strut is held in place yet can easily be removed to give access, etc. The lights sit 1.25" above the top of the tank and I have the stock TruVue canopy and that works great as the canopy insulates any noise from the light fans and the open back of the canopy give enough air space there and above the lights to keep them from getting hot.
When I had the lights set at 100% blue and 80% white is was way too bright to me? Right now I have them set at 80% blue and 40% white but I really have no clue what the corals want? I appreciate your help.. right now I only have a small frag of: green star polyp, sun king psammocra, war coral favites, and lime green finger leather. The tank has a good amount of live rock about 65-70% the height of the tank and live sand.