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Does anyone have direct experience on how to keep the blue color of the corals from changing or fading using radions?
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Does anyone have direct experience on how to keep the blue color of the corals from changing or fading using radions?
Having a PAR meter turned out to be indispensable - I was able to ensure proper light coverage and intensity. Once I’ve learned these tricks I was able to keep any high-end acro I wanted, bringing in corals that were grown and coloured under Metal Halides and not losing any color. At the end of the experiment I would consistently get a better color under LEDs than under T5 to everyone’s surprise. Having run this for a year I finally decided to upgrade my main tank lighting to Radions and as of this writing I’ve been running them for over a month with good results.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/why-do-my-blue-corals-always-turn-green.302894/page-2
That thread "may" help..
From there.. see ToTM link
Well DUH on my part.. That was started 3/4 yr ago..The op is the same as here
I don't think his lights are that new.....
I think it's all about acclimation for radions. I'm running mine at 80-82%
im running G4 pros
Do you have facts behind thatI know you are, I was asking if @Mirkus was. Very often I find when people ask questions related SPECIFICALLY to G4 pro users, G3 users chime in with their outdated 2 cents. Not to be curt, but I had both the G3 and the G4 -- People who only have G3's spout off all kinds of nonsense related to the G4, which they both don't own, nor have any experience with.
This is a common PROBLEM. Because the G4 is significantly more powerful than the G3, and a G3 user may lead a G4 user astray by giving non-pertinent advice, such as running your Radion G4 at higher than X percent -- information not tied to settings is fine. But when a G3 user starts telling a G4 user "I run my radions at 200%, and nothing died !11!" they are not helping anybody. The G4 is outlandishly more powerful than the G3.
When you change a light source, or sometimes even light settings, your corals will react one way or another. Typically, you're going to have them darken up, or change colors. I've had yellow corals go deep purple, and red corals start bleaching.
Changing light is the most stressful thing you can do to a coral. In our tanks, they are not fed plankton -- the light source is where the significant majority of their health come from. Changing that on them is initially pretty troublesome in the LED world. They have to adapt, unlike going from T5 to MH, or vice-versa. Going from anything to LED, or even from LED to another LED, it's a big deal to corals.
Do you have facts behind that
No actually I don' but own hydra 52s with t5s but when you said outlandishingly more power I only questioned so I could read the literature myself I definitely was trying to challenge you ,just learn from you