Lighting

[chase thompson]

I have 2 xr30 g6 lights and just decided it’s time to get corals. I always kept a white light just to see the fish. I’m going for lps and soft coral reef. The recommend spectrum is extremely blue (eye sore/all the fish look blue). All the videos I watch online look so much more natural color with a tint of blue. Does anyone of a picture of what there similar lights are at or have any advice. I’ll add a picture of my tank

 

[revhtree]

Welcome to your new home for saltwater reef aquarium resources and fun! Welcome to the family! :D

 

[chase thompson]

I have 2 xr30 g6 pros and planning to add soft coral and lps in the tank. The recommend lighting the app has pre programmed is EXTREMELY blue. All the videos I watch look like a natural light with tint blue (the same corals I plan on having) is there anyone who has lighting I can copy or have advise ?thanks

 

[chase thompson]

I have 2 xr30 g6 pros and planning to add soft coral and lps in the tank. The recommend lighting the app has pre programmed is EXTREMELY blue. All the videos I watch look like a natural light with tint blue (the same corals I plan on having) is there anyone who has lighting I can copy or have advise ?thanks

 

[Sean Clark]

Welcome to Reef2Reef

 

[Utubereefer]

Welcome to the club

 

[Utubereefer]

I have Gen4 XR30 and I start with about an hour of blue in the morning then the white lights ramp up and at night time I go back to blue. I supplement with orphek or3 light bars. One white and one blue.

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[Reef Jedi]

Welcome to Reef2Reef! The greatest community out of water.

I also run 4 Radion G6 Pros. Here are two screen shots of my day time spectrum. It’s the AB+ modified with white channels turned up. Maybe dial yours to these settings and see if this pleases the eye. I have a par meter and I get really good readings for sps all around the tank. I am getting good growth and coraline algae with this spectrum.

P.s. a lot of the videos you’ll see online are white for two reasons, they are using an orange lense to cut out the blue and also turning the lights to a white setting for cameras. The schedule I run gets pretty blue the first hour and last hour of the day for viewing corals and make them pop with color.

I also had to do two screen shots since all the points would not fit in one shot.

Hope this helps a little and let me know what you think!



Here’s also a tank shot with no filters on an iPhone 16 pro.

 

[Fish Fan]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

These two things should help you out!

Radion XR30 Pro Lighting schedule

I have a 90 gallon 24X24X36. I am running the scedule provided by Ecotech live after a 3 week acclimation period. I think the lights are to bright in the tank and my glass is forming algea quite rapidly. Can anyone give me an idea on a working scedule with light intensities? Much appreciated !

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[bast]

Welcome!

Reef Jedi has some great advice on those lights! I also don't prefer the super blue look most of the time, so I have just the tiniest bit of white added to balance it until the last hour of ramp down.

 

[BonnieB]

Welcome to our R2R family!

 

[edsbeaker]

Hello and welcome!

 

[kevgib67]

Welcome, glad you are here!

 

[Ruben's Reef]

Welcome to R2R !!!

 

[fishface NJ]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Ruben's Reef]

I have the same lights on my tank and I’m using the AB+ on the app with a little change. It ramps up about an hour for the AB+ 6 hours and then ramp down another hour to just turns off.


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[Peace River]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!! I am not sure about the lights, but we are glad you're here!

 

[BryanM]

I have 2 xr30 g6 lights and just decided it’s time to get corals. I always kept a white light just to see the fish. I’m going for lps and soft coral reef. The recommend spectrum is extremely blue (eye sore/all the fish look blue). All the videos I watch online look so much more natural color with a tint of blue. Does anyone of a picture of what there similar lights are at or have any advice. I’ll add a picture of my tank

Welcome to the forums!