Sith Lord Acan

[Sobo's Reef]

So I bought a Sith Lord Acan frag off Mr.Coral on eBay. As pictured it was a bright red color at first, after a few days it went orange. Any ideas?

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[Sobo's Reef]

Also, it was bright red in my tank for the first few days, looks even more orange then the picture shows

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[kschweer]

Do you run LEDs ? If so acans are notorious for turning orange under them.

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Yes I do. 2 165w dimmable Chinese fixtures. I have a few other acans and none of the others seemed to lose any color

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[kschweer]

You could try moving them to a more shaded spot and see if that helps out at all.

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Yeah, I did put them in a partially shaded area, maybe I'll put them completely in the shade with my green goblin favia and see how it does

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[ingtar_shinowa]

red acans usually turn orange under LEDs

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Do u have any tips on making them go back to red?

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[ingtar_shinowa]

Apparently using T5's lol. I just got basic acans that were orange and blue because I knew.

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Gotcha, don't plan on switching to LEDs anytime soon so that rules that out, guess I'll go with the first suggestion and move em in the shade.

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[Sobo's Reef]

Switching from LEDs*

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[backpack]

Run more blues than whites for led. I use radion pros and if I don't use the maximum color program they look crappy.

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Alright I'll give that a try. Thank you!

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[jservedio]

I have a bunch of acans under LEDs (Radion Pros) and I never had a problem with red acans them turning orange like I have heard so many people talk about (and I have a LOT of red or red-based rainbow acans - probably 7 lords with red as the main color). Maybe there is something else going on besides just the lighting? I know a lot of LEDs put out absurd amounts of PAR that gets focused pretty intensely - so maybe they are just getting way too much light?

 

[Sobo's Reef]

Yeah I suppose that's a possibility. As soon as my lights kick on, I'm gonna move em in the shade and give it a few days

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[backpack]

LEDs don't work like most other lights. The lights only put out a narrow spectrum of light. It's not like t5. Sanjay yoshi has some great articles if your interested. I assumed you had the Chinese blue and white lights. If you have full spectrum the other guy was correct.

 

[Sobo's Reef]

LEDs don't work like most other lights. The lights only put out a narrow spectrum of light. It's not like t5. Sanjay yoshi has some great articles if your interested. I assumed you had the Chinese blue and white lights. If you have full spectrum the other guy was correct.

Thanks, yes I have the Chinese blue and white LEDs. I put it in the shade yesterday so we'll see what happens

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