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How high from the waterline are your lights mounted? I have mine about 9". With whites that high (85%) par at the top of my rockwork would be 1000. I have my royal blues at 85%, my violet/uv at 75%, whites 15%, red and green 5%, moonlights 25%I bought mine used in Fed 2018. I think they were 2 years old at that point (i'll note tge age again when I post my numbers).
I will be reconfiguring my settings. I have somewhere a spectrum balance from Dana Riddle, if I can find it I will repost that I used to ballpark my settings. I think they went something like this.
At 7am I had them go on ramping up to 11am to
White: 85%
Violet. 85%
Moonlight 0
Blue. 85%
Red. 40%
Green. 40%
then dialing down at 1pm to
White: 50%.
Violet. 75%
Moonlight 0
Blue. 75%
Red. 25%
Green. 25%
Then at 7pm
White: 0%.
Violet. 50%
Moonlight 0
Blue. 50%
Red. 25%
Green. 25%
11pm off
this was a guessing game. I when the par meter arrives I will redo these better matching the spectrum balance with actual math/readings
I understand dinos don't like blue but like white and that algae like red and green.
I don't like washed out blues all the time, but when I sit down at night I do enjoy a blue dominant setting to bring out the fluorescent proteins (ie pop) in the corals