Coral glow

[mkutsch]

Has anyone tried to grow anything under pure red light?

 

[wesleyclement85]

It wouldn't kill them to do this during the day; set it from white to blue for a couple minutes of awesomeness then set it back! Totally harmless. Also, the more you change your light, the more chance that your coral could morph (intensity wise, I believe).

When you say morph. Do you mean good or bad? I'm thinking mean bad and that's the reason for the consistency of the lights to begin with.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Has anyone tried to grow anything under pure red light?

theres little to no red in the ocean. Its the first color to disappear.

 

[mkutsch]

No, no. Morphing can be good or bad! It's like the lottery ('cept you have a small chance of even playing, heh...).

 

[mkutsch]

Also, here is an example:

 

[mkutsch]

See the middle one? It morphed (I assume) from the pale ones.

 

[mkutsch]

Morph-change color,heheh...

 

[wesleyclement85]

Morph-change color,heheh...

Cool. Could me a fun project for a few frags in a small 5 gallon tank alone

 

[mkutsch]

I wouldn't spend the money... Anyway, don't quite know how this happens but I do know that minerals play a huge part.

 

[mkutsch]

Make a mineral mix of some stuff and mebbe you might find gold. Literally.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

http://reeftools.com/news/creating-zoanthid-morphs-a-challenging-experiment/

some corals def change color due to higher light. some from color of light. Some because its thursday and your late for work and they thought it would be funny to see your face as you run out the door.
Nems do that:D

 

[wesleyclement85]

Lol it would be easy and cheap to take a 5 gallon I already own and plumb it in and have a tiny coral only tank to play with. Lord knows what you could do with that little tank plumbed into a larger system to keep it stable yet raise only coral in it

 

[wesleyclement85]

http://reeftools.com/news/creating-zoanthid-morphs-a-challenging-experiment/

some corals def change color due to higher light. some from color of light. Some because its thursday and your late for work and they thought it would be funny to see your face as you run out the door.
Nems do that:D

I tell everyone that post about there nem. Usually it's fine nems will freak you out daily until you get used to there weird ways.

 

[Griff]

This is what I'm using on 2 tanks. One with AI primes the other with AI hydra 26hd.

 

[ahiggins]

That looks intimidating!!! ^^^^

 

[ahiggins]

Here's mine:
During the "peak" for growing 55% intensity at 14.5k


During the "night viewing" aka pretty colors 55% intensity at 18.5k:


At the top you'll find percentages. Notice only the left 3 change. So even though it's blue to us, there's still a little whites (Cw is white lol)
I don't like over complicated if you can't tell

 

[ahiggins]

Mind you, I keep at 55% to keep algae down.

 

[mkutsch]

Mine morphed when I poured salty bleach on one...

 

[mkutsch]

Got rid of the algae!

 

[wesleyclement85]

Mind you, I keep at 55% to keep algae down.

At this time I'm getting good signs of coraline coming in that my biggest fear right now is to change too much and lose that. But obviously I haven't got it all right just yet