New and need some spectrum help.

[mbsloan]

I am having trouble dialing in the tank lighting.

Tank: 5x2x2
Light: Reefbreeders Meridian 45

Tank is a few months old. Just picked up my first batch of corals last week. Hammer, Ricordea, Kenya, Chalice.

I’m trying to balance blue/growth with the tank looking good.

Since I just added the lights I’m running it most at 30-40% intensity so I don’t have a huge algae bloom.

I am currently using a lower intensity @VintageReefer schedule.

My issue is the coral color are popping but it is just to blue for me to enjoy the fish and rest of the tank.

Can someone help me out with a schedule and spectrum that could achieve both? Maybe run it super blue during working hours but more white when I’m home? I wanna get good growth and I would like to see the coral in the blue at times but ultimately want the fish to look good too.

I’m just to inexperienced with corals and lighting to feel comfortable changing a bunch of settings in the light

 

[TX_REEF]

Personally, I have the blues ramp up before whites do in the morning, and have the whites ramp down before the blues in the evening, that way I have an extended period of daylight spectrum for general viewing enjoyment, but a couple hours of blue pop in the evening to enjoy the coral fluorescence.

 

[mrpontiac80]

I have all colors at startup for the first 5 hours and then all blues the rest of the day.

As for you, I would suggest just adding white until you are happy with the look

 

[VintageReefer]

I am having trouble dialing in the tank lighting.

Tank: 5x2x2
Light: Reefbreeders Meridian 45

Tank is a few months old. Just picked up my first batch of corals last week. Hammer, Ricordea, Kenya, Chalice.

I’m trying to balance blue/growth with the tank looking good.

Since I just added the lights I’m running it most at 30-40% intensity so I don’t have a huge algae bloom.

I am currently using a lower intensity @VintageReefer schedule.

My issue is the coral color are popping but it is just to blue for me to enjoy the fish and rest of the tank.

Can someone help me out with a schedule and spectrum that could achieve both? Maybe run it super blue during working hours but more white when I’m home? I wanna get good growth and I would like to see the coral in the blue at times but ultimately want the fish to look good too.

I’m just to inexperienced with corals and lighting to feel comfortable changing a bunch of settings in the light

send me a pic of your lighting schedule graph, and then tell me what hours you get home and want to see more white, and when you want “evening / night viewing” for coral pop

 

[mbsloan]

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send me a pic of your lighting schedule graph, and then tell me what hours you get home and want to see more white, and when you want “evening / night viewing” for coral pop

So basically I took yours and instead I’d 74% on indigo I made it 34% since it is a new tank. Then used that same % reduction across all channels.

Basically I am home around 4pm and want to enjoy viewing 4-8ish. Everyone in the house is up by 7. So I did a 7-8 sunrise to sunset with a slow ramp so my kids could look at the tank from 7-730 before school.

 

[mbsloan]

On top of the schedule

Am I doing the right thing only running at 35% right now with it being a new tank? And then when should I up the intensity?

I based the 30% roughly on the one W per gallon just to get the tank off the ground.

 

[mbsloan]

@VintageReefer were you able to come up with anything?

 

[VintageReefer]

I wrote up a reply. I guess I forgot to post it!

 

[VintageReefer]

Go to the white channel and change the 4 setpoints time to the values I wrote in the picture. When you get home you will have the end of the full daylight period. From 6-7 you can see the sunset / evening transition, and from 7-8 you’ll have a full blue period. You can see the corals in all different lighting each day with these alterations

 

[Zuluuz]

Bro just use the default schedules all channels at x%. The light is already perfect