I was running 2 coral plus and 2 antic. I was not digging the blue. I just added a 10k bulb but was thinking of a 6500k. I like the look of the 10k so I'll leave it alone.
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These shots are amazing! Where did you get these corals? I'm on the hunt for corals that still look great under daylight settings. I'm nervous to buy from a lot of online suppliers because the blue is cranked up so high in their photos I'm worried that it will all just look brown under the warmer lighting I like.All these pics were taken under the 6500K setting of the Radions. Embrace the warmth!
I take issue with this whole statement. Lighting does not cause GHA. Nutrients cause algae growth. Now the color may bring it to a head, but it's it's not the underlying issue.using LED's for that effect, the 10K effect, is fueling hundreds and hundreds of GHA challenge reefs, though 10K metal halides might not be as bad it was still common to see gha tufting under nonblue light
for running my kessils are 100% blue.
for pics, 10%
in every case of GHA rework we do, after killing algae and cleaning out detritus, last step is bluing the lights and lowering whites.
Don't actually think I can recall a single example, here on R2R at least, where somebody correlated 10/6.5 K lighting to an exacerbated hair algae problem. Since they are so easily linked, could you do so as I would be interested. I have recently setup a mangrove tank with 6,500 K LED lighting and am curious as to whether I will have a problem.Post for us links where you fixed algae in someone else's tank and logged the results, without rip cleaning. I think we are up to several hundred working examples linkable instantly, with feedback and live chats too.
In any case, not worried about it, my cleanup crew consists of 6 tangs and a foxface. They demolish any vegetative matter whatsoever. I do have a few stray snails and hermits, but the fish do most of the work.Excellent
add the mh and shine it right on a running reef tank down low, intense, with nutrients and fish and corals in tow. same top lights etc. add the mh and fan it if needed for heat. Valid experiment.
its very correlated in the world of work thread dialogue it’s not a surprise that single examples haven’t seen the claim in action, we aren’t necessarily talking about the same thing but I welcome the experiment.
I’m talking about what works for controlling algae in thousands of logged jobs
The claim is debatable, but for context debate it with numbers and patterns from a link we can eval with no summary. Show how a claim is repeatable in more than one tank, to me that’s the only convincing way.
when fixing someone’s algae issue online and asking for follow up, growback influencing designs stand out and bright white lights are implicated in our patterns imo
The issue I have with your ‘work threads’ is, frankly, your syntax. It is extremely hard to parse exactly what you are trying to say most of the time, and the rest of the time you say stuff with absolutely zero actual data, such as the link between LED and GHA that you propose here, and that calore also brought up a couple posts ago.Neil, we know you won’t be getting any links that show works we can peel through at the same time. Always a helpful contributor
its neat how those with certain ideas of what works and doesn’t work for algae control spend this much time researching and studying patterns, its the commitment that stands out best.
even if the cause / effect stated above is wrong, it’d be great just to see something sincere you undertook in the matter. From your logs we can check for patterns maybe you’ve missed.