Does LED lights causes your sps corals to change color into a more blue tone or do you think it has to do with the blue light spectrum being on longer than the whites? Seems some of my sps are growing with the glowing blue tip.
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Expect some color shift under LED's, especially if they were under a different light like T5's.
Also has a lot to do with the type of LED's, what par the lights give out, distance from the light to the corals and what spectrum the LED diodes emitt.
Also has a lot to do with the type of LED's, what par the lights give out, distance from the light to the corals and what spectrum the LED diodes emitt.
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It all depends on the LED's and in how far you understand what led's are vs T5 or MH.
I have seen a tank crash cause of led's but I have seen that too from MH.
There's always a acclimation from one light to another and we should take that in consideration.
Always start low from the bottom up even if you know the par where the SPS came from.
Find out over the course of 3 to 6 months where your SPS will have the best of it's PE and stick with that.
I have seen a tank crash cause of led's but I have seen that too from MH.
There's always a acclimation from one light to another and we should take that in consideration.
Always start low from the bottom up even if you know the par where the SPS came from.
Find out over the course of 3 to 6 months where your SPS will have the best of it's PE and stick with that.
I've had personally and read one other thread that acro tips are turning green.
I've had it on an sbreeflight and ai sol.
I just got all the SB under the ai sol in the bigger tank now and Have not finished the experiment so I haven't said anything.
I don't run extended blues. I'm at a med par Lux. I have a long but not intense photoperiod.
What i think it is maybe nutrients in the SB tank. Or odd Alk. Or a spectrum at this intensity that is overloading the coral and making it fluoresce but only that pigment.
D riddle at macna said and I've also read pigments are generated when photo synth for growth shut down. Usually at 350 par. That's when growth and alk uptake slow down and then the energy is sloughed off back into the zoox cells and excrete the pigments as waste. Probably excretein zoox or the dinoflagellate back into the water in the wild.
But if the spectrum is not even or spiked higher than a mh or t5 spectrum it's targeting one zoox and overloading only that one.
Or it's a trace mineral deficientcy.
I've had it on an sbreeflight and ai sol.
I just got all the SB under the ai sol in the bigger tank now and Have not finished the experiment so I haven't said anything.
I don't run extended blues. I'm at a med par Lux. I have a long but not intense photoperiod.
What i think it is maybe nutrients in the SB tank. Or odd Alk. Or a spectrum at this intensity that is overloading the coral and making it fluoresce but only that pigment.
D riddle at macna said and I've also read pigments are generated when photo synth for growth shut down. Usually at 350 par. That's when growth and alk uptake slow down and then the energy is sloughed off back into the zoox cells and excrete the pigments as waste. Probably excretein zoox or the dinoflagellate back into the water in the wild.
But if the spectrum is not even or spiked higher than a mh or t5 spectrum it's targeting one zoox and overloading only that one.
Or it's a trace mineral deficientcy.
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