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This morning I was walking by my tank and did a double take. The sun was directly illuminating a very small portion of my tank and it was glorious. My purple stylophora and purple porites were glowing, usually they are kinda drab bluish at best. See pictures below for the usual coloration:
My aquarium is opposite of a very large set of windows and at this time of year around 9:00 light comes directly from the sun through my windows and illuminates small parts of the aquarium for like 20 minutes max. Today was the day I walked by at just the right time and now that I have seen the light I must have that color!(I will try to get pictures tomorrow ) So I ask you, can I duplicate that sunlight effect with my Kessil AP9x LEDs ?
Here is what I have now for settings. I have a photo period of 12 hours that ramps from very low intensity (15) and blue coloration (15) to a more whitish color at mid-day of 50 for color and 36 for intensity. The Violet color channel ranges from 10 in the early and late hours up to 50 at mid-day, the red color channel goes from 2 early to 18 at mid-day, and the green channel has been at 0. I tried experimenting with the red, green, and violet channels with no effect at replicating what I have seen.
I hope someone can please point me in the right direction at to what to try, now that I know what I am missing it is agonizing.
My aquarium is opposite of a very large set of windows and at this time of year around 9:00 light comes directly from the sun through my windows and illuminates small parts of the aquarium for like 20 minutes max. Today was the day I walked by at just the right time and now that I have seen the light I must have that color!(I will try to get pictures tomorrow ) So I ask you, can I duplicate that sunlight effect with my Kessil AP9x LEDs ?
Here is what I have now for settings. I have a photo period of 12 hours that ramps from very low intensity (15) and blue coloration (15) to a more whitish color at mid-day of 50 for color and 36 for intensity. The Violet color channel ranges from 10 in the early and late hours up to 50 at mid-day, the red color channel goes from 2 early to 18 at mid-day, and the green channel has been at 0. I tried experimenting with the red, green, and violet channels with no effect at replicating what I have seen.
I hope someone can please point me in the right direction at to what to try, now that I know what I am missing it is agonizing.
