I'm leaning Straton as well because European lights seem to be whiter than the deep blue preferred in the states. At least that's what my research has shown. There's a YouTuber from Europe and predominantly those tanks tend to be whiter and recall them making that comment and specifically to Straton.
1:1 Its way too much blue. 2:1 is doable. plenty of blue in the grows just no uv. So you miss a little pop from that.
I look at the glow as like an actinic T5 bulb. the grow more like a blue+
I went with a freshwater and a glow on my shallow tank. When you mount the lights, you may want the ability to adjust the angle of the glow so there is no blue/purple line across the tank. And not that you mentioned the warm LEDs, but FYI the red and warm LEDs on the freshwater are on the same control dial in the app so they must be turned on and off together. I give the tank 100% of this red channel for 2 hours in the morning in case it can be useful for some organisms, and then I turn it then low enough to the point where I don’t notice any change in color.
Enough to make a difference.
Yes, you only get “Red Balance”, “Blue Balance” and “Cool White” toggles with the Freshwater. I agree it’s a little frustrating, but I guess they didn’t want it too cluttered. This is on both the myAI app and the Mobius app (unless they changed the myAI app in the last 10 months).
2 grows and a glow is standard, looks and works good. If you only got 2 I would get 2 grows. With 3 the glow is fine and will actually fill a missing "spectrum".
Yes, you only get “Red Balance”, “Blue Balance” and “Cool White” toggles with the Freshwater. I agree it’s a little frustrating, but I guess they didn’t want it too cluttered. This is on both the myAI app and the Mobius app (unless they changed the myAI app in the last 10 months).
I was referring to spread; seems like you should be good 28” from the light.
For the Glow, you get “UV” (3 415nm and 3 405nm LEDs, I think), “Violet” (6 430nm LEDs), and “Royal Blue” (12 LEDs) toggles. I’ve played around with it a bit and have noticed the Royal Blue seems to provide the most fluorescence by far. I think the UV and Violet do add a bit of extra pop, but it’s hard to tell so far with my few and small corals. If the lack of separate controls for the warm LEDs is annoying, you might consider swapping a freshwater or 2 for the Grows. You get 6 of the blue LEDs, which I think are quite nice during the daytime and I wish I had more than the 2 that come on the freshwater. You also get additional fluorescence with the 12 royal blues. It might also depend whether you are going to run the same settings all day, or if you like a couple hours of a popping tank at night with mostly blues/UV.
Wanna sell the hyper reefs??
Also I would go two grows and a glow I think that would be a great place to start
