Settings recommendations for viparspectra 165W 300W

[Oscar Perales]

I have two viparspectra 165W 300W lights and I need recommendations for the lights because I was running them at 100% Blues and 40% White but I was growing too much algae. Anyone have experience with these?

 

[bwelch]

I have three over a 210 and I run my blues on 100 and my whites on 10. I don’t run my whites but about 4 hours and also I removed all my lenses and it works great.

 

[Bpb]

First...get some pincushion urchins and a decent algae magnet for the glass. Making lighting and chemistry decisions with the goal of hindering algae growth will also hinder coral growth. They go hand in hand.

Second. Rent an apogee 510qm

Third. Turn blue led channel up to 100% and hang lights 12-16” off the water. Remove optics if possible for mounting lower.

4th turn up white channel until desired par ranges are achieved. 100-200 for softy’s and lps, 300-400 for sps.

There is your ideal setting. Slowly acclimate you’re corals to this setting by starting with half strength of each final setting and increase a tiny amount each day for a couple weeks until you reach desired par ranges. Easy as that.

 

[blasterman]

The ratio of the color channels has nothing to do with algae growth.

Reduced lighting over all combined with water chemistry mgmt gets rid of nuisance algae.

 

[Finnaddict]

I have mine 7" above the water at 40% blue and 1% white. 24" deep tank and im getting 400-500par @8" below water and 250-300 on the bottom. Lights are on for 12 hours total but whites for only 4 hours.

 

[chipmunkofdoom2]

I run mine at 94% blue, 40% white. I run closer to 50% white on my frag tank. No algae issues here.

Light and nutrients have historically been blamed for algae, but there are plenty of high-light, high nutrient tanks out there that don't have algae problems. It's not just the algae that needs light and nutrients, your corals need them too. Starving the tank of light and nutrients starves everything. Get some herbivores to deal with the algae specifically.

 

[Celo24]

65 gallon what would be recommend settlings ?

 

[Peace River]

65 gallon what would be recommend settlings ?

I would suggest starting at 30 and 3, then increasing the levels from there depending on how your corals react. Good luck!

 

[Celo24]

I would suggest starting at 30 and 3, then increasing the levels from there depending on how your corals react. Good luck!

Thanks for the advice, the tank ran for 6 weeks cycling with no lights when cycling completed I did 100% blue 30 white little by little raising whites I got to 70% when algae bloomed

 

[Peace River]

Thanks for the advice, the tank ran for 6 weeks cycling with no lights when cycling completed I did 100% blue 30 white little by little raising whites I got to 70% when algae bloomed

It would be great if you could get a hold of a PAR meter, but those settings seem high. Good luck with wherever you end up!

 

[fuelman]

I would suggest starting at 30 and 3, then increasing the levels from there depending on how your corals react. Good luck!

this is where i would start out without a par meter. i have 15 of these lights spread over 4 tanks, i have a par meter & have mapped each tank out. depending on the coral you want to keep. say acan & favia at the bottom & a hammer & torch higher on the rock, from the pic of your rockwork, two lights over a 65 gallon at 11" & 100/40% will most likely burn pretty much any lps coral you put higher on the rock work. my best guess at those settings of 100/40 would be about 400par near the top of the rocks & around 200par on the floor of the tank. this is just a guess though & even just water clarity can change par from one tank to another. without a par meter it's best to start out where peace river recommended.

 

[Celo24]

I appreciate all the feed back will do some adjustments

 

[Danno23]

Reading l these

 

[Danno23]

Reading a these settings make me crazy, I have mine running 80 blues and 1 white which after reading people par measurements is probably way overkill. Only 10" above the water on a 12" deep tank.

 

[Bpb]

Reading a these settings make me crazy, I have mine running 80 blues and 1 white which after reading people par measurements is probably way overkill. Only 10" above the water on a 12" deep tank.

I would put the blue channel wherever it needs to be to reach about 75-80% of your par goal, and get the rest of the way with the white channel. Probably a better way to do it than my original suggestion

 

[Wolf94]

I run mine at 94% blue, 40% white. I run closer to 50% white on my frag tank. No algae issues here.

Light and nutrients have historically been blamed for algae, but there are plenty of high-light, high nutrient tanks out there that don't have algae problems. It's not just the algae that needs light and nutrients, your corals need them too. Starving the tank of light and nutrients starves everything. Get some herbivores to deal with the algae specifically.

Hello
Ah yes, you put very agressive settings like in France.

 

[Nicholas Dushynsky]

I have a modified 165w version with this layout

this is hung 8 inches above the water and I have all the lenses removed. I am currently running it at 45 blue 30 white, I have only had this set up since Saturday. But the original light has been on it for over 3 years. I did mod it last may (ish) to this

it was too white for my liking and with so much royal blue on the blue channel, running this only it looked too dark to me. This is the current tank as of yesterday.