BEAUTIFUL CORALS!!
Would you mind sharing your light schedule/settings, height from water, depth of tank, and how deep the acros are located?
Thank you! This tank is now days away from scheduled dismantling and none of those corals exist anymore. Sad. But! I used a single reef breeders photon v2+50 along with a pair of sbreef sbar actinic strips
Sbreef strips run at 100%. All lights 12” off the water. Standard 48”x18”x24” 90 gallon.
I stink at excel so I’ll try to share my schedule best I can
Sbreef strips 100% from 10:00-22:00
Reef breeders
10:00-12:00
Royal blue, Blue, Violet ramp to 80%
12:00-16:00
Royal blue, blue,violet hold at 80%
White ramp to 47%
Red & green ramp to 15%
16:00-20:00
Royal blue, blue, violet hole at 80%
White hold at 47%
Red & green hold at 15%
20:00-21:00
Royal blue, blue, violet hold at 80%
White, red @ green ramp down to 0%
21:00-22:00
Royal blue, blue, violet ramp to 0%
Full darkness from 22:00-10:00
Par readings were very even from end to end front to back.
Top 1/4 of the tank got about 400-500 par
Middle half got between 200-400 par
Bottom 1/4 was between 100-200
Readings were taken during peak photoperiod.
Thoughts:
The overall aesthetic was a little blue for my taste. On my new tank I will run two photon v2+ 50’s along with the sbreef strips. I favor the 10k halide look. Bright and bold like the reef visible on about one breath hold mid-day clear skies. I will be mounting my lights 17” off the water on the next tank and mimicking the @Battlecorals profile of all Channels mostly maxed out during peak hours. I’ll adjust the overall intensity to reach a 200-400 par goal where all the acropora will be, but I’d like to keep ratios of all colors equal during peak hours for a nice bright tank
Lastly. All photos I contributed in this thread were shot by an iPhone X without a filter, lights set to the “sunny” preset on the reef breeders, and sbreef actinic strips turned OFF. Daylight pictures turned out best under this setting. My regular programming made for smurf water pictures