Best Spectrum Setting for Current Marine Pro LED?

alibarin · Jun 16, 2020

Hi!

I just set up and am cycling my first tank. I have the Current Marine Pro LED light strip installed (but am not running it because the tank is doing a fishless cycle). The lights come with an pre-programmed spectrum for day and night. But I noticed that the daytime light setting was 100% red, green, white, and blue. I was wondering if I should change these settings at all or just leave it on factory settings?

Spare time · Jun 17, 2020

What size tank? If its just fish it doesn't matter. If you are doing coral then you probably need a different light unless you have a 12 inch tall tank

alibarin · Jun 19, 2020

I was thinking mostly some soft coral or LPS. The tank depth is 17 inches and the info sheet for the light said it is good for soft and LPS up to 18 inch tank depth. But I'm not sure it that's accurate?

fresco194 · Jun 19, 2020

Is it IC pro dual or the discontinued pro?

alibarin · Jun 19, 2020

Its IC pro!

fresco194 · Jun 19, 2020

I have mine on a 18" high tank at Blue: 100% White: 15% Red: 0% Green: 0%. I had whites at 30% until about a week ago but was battling cyano and GHA. To be perfectly honest with you I'm about to ditch these for AI Primes because after 2 years my corals survive but have very little and slow growth. Also I've gone through 3 eflux wave pumps in a year. I'm done with Current USA. Sorry for venting.

rhastareefer · Jun 19, 2020

fresco194 said:
I have mine on a 18" high tank at Blue: 100% White: 15% Red: 0% Green: 0%. I had whites at 30% until about a week ago but was battling cyano and GHA. To be perfectly honest with you I'm about to ditch these for AI Primes because after 2 years my corals survive but have very little and slow growth. Also I've gone through 3 eflux wave pumps in a year. I'm done with Current USA. Sorry for venting.

You're running a low wattage fixture with like half the potential (you're only really using the blue diodes...) output. I'm not surprised corals aren't growing very much as they're likely receiving very low PAR. Even cranked, Current fixtures aren't capable of putting out enough PAR for higher demand corals.

fresco194 · Jun 19, 2020

At one point I had at Blue: 100% White: 23% Red: 33% Green: 20% but problems came after that. I'm not going to do all at 100% like they recommend. One didn't like the look and two that's way too much white not to mention red and green. Back to the OP's question, I wouldn't go any higher than 30% on whites with blues on full 100%. The blues are already royal blue so I don't think red is needed.