Natural light scale for reef aquarium

[fishy103]

I just set up my aquarium and I got an AI prime reef led, my question is: What is a good percentage of color for Soft, LPS, and SPS corals that looks like natural sunlight? This is my first reef aquarium and I’m new to this light and lighting percentage scale. I don’t like the blue and purple dominated light aquariums, I am looking for a nice natural white light aquarium. Thanks! :)

 

[FUNGI]

I'm biased on the 6500K.....tons of growth, not much "pop"....Unless you have a Yellow Fiji leather

 

[PotatoPig]

My opinion, and I’m sure others may disagree:

Run equal % for each channel unless you want a more neutral light in which case run the white/green/red at higher %.

Looking at the light I might be wrong but it seems 8/16 of the diodes are blue, 2/16 are UV/UV-adjacent, 4/16 are white, and there’s one red and one green diode.

IMO the idea is they come pre-configured for heavy blues when all diodes are powered equally. Tamping down the 1/16 red and 1/16 green diodes seems unnecessary as they’re already such a small portion of the light output.

 

[fishy103]

Thanks! Any more suggestions? :)

 

[Subsea]

I just set up my aquarium and I got an AI prime reef led, my question is: What is a good percentage of color for Soft, LPS, and SPS corals that looks like natural sunlight? This is my first reef aquarium and I’m new to this light and lighting percentage scale. I don’t like the blue and purple dominated light aquariums, I am looking for a nice natural white light aquarium. Thanks! :)

I go between 6500 Kevin and 10,000 Kevin.

This tank is 10,000 Kevin.

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

I go between 6500 Kevin and 10,000 Kevin.

This tank is 10,000 Kevin.

That's a lot of Kevin's. Any relation to Kelvin? :winking-face-with-tongue:

 

[Subsea]

Kelvin is an engineering term for heat energy.

Kevin is light spectrum and in my experience, very subjective.

However, frequency as expressed as wavelength is a precise engineering term for light spectrum expressed in nanometers.

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

Kelvin is an engineering term for heat energy.

Kevin is light spectrum and in my experience, very subjective.

However, frequency as expressed as wavelength is a precise engineering term for light spectrum expressed in nanometers.

As an electrician, i know from first hand experience the temperature of the light(the color) is measured in Kelvin. I've never heard of Kevin as a unit of measurement. :thinking-face: I must go to the google as my curiosity has been peaked. I was just razzing what I thought was a minor typo :astonished-face:

 

[X-37B]

Run the firt 4 channels 100% and the rest 50%. This is my old 18" nano cube running 2 16hds. Very natural looking, imo.

 

[exnisstech]

I like to set my lights so they are pleasing to me then check par and raise or lower each channel equally get the par desired.