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How’s the disco ball effect with these lights?
Do you have orange eyes? 55% blue and 10% white is pretty much windex blue.The tank was just too white. I also have a ReefBrite Tech Strip 50/50 and 2 ATI Blue+ T5s. I have really noticed any difference with the corals yet.
Wrong. Ane entirely blue spectrum is only for your eyes but corals grow faster under around 6000-1000k. In natural reef environments the water only filters out some of the red and blue spectrum but there is still enough left especially in lagoons. If you completely eliminate the red and green spectrum you won't get good coloration and growth. I presume that you are one of these windex look chasing people. I will never understand you people. Extreme blue lighting gives the impression that corals are colorful even when they aren't. I want to look at my tank and be able to identify all the different colors under crisp lighting. If you need super blue lighting to make your corals pop, you are doing something wrong. If your tank looks super colorful under 10k you don't need blue lights to fake good coloration. Also, not every color will be represented accurately under blue lights. Pinks, for example, look terrible in windex blue tanks but amazing in 10k tanks.White isn’t needed for coral growth.
I agree with you on this I'm running mine at 80 blue 8 white. My first post I was running @ 65 blue 20 white but I've been messing around with the settings so much I'm trying to get my whites back up slowly to around 15-20 as I think I don't like the windex look I tried at 80 blue and 3 white so as of last week I'm bringing the whites up 5% a week and might even settle on 18 you never know.Wrong. Ane entirely blue spectrum is only for your eyes but corals grow faster under around 6000-1000k. In natural reef environments the water only filters out some of the red and blue spectrum but there is still enough left especially in lagoons. If you completely eliminate the red and green spectrum you won't get good coloration and growth. I presume that you are one of these windex look chasing people. I will never understand you people. Extreme blue lighting gives the impression that corals are colorful even when they aren't. I want to look at my tank and be able to identify all the different colors under crisp lighting. If you need super blue lighting to make your corals pop, you are doing something wrong. If your tank looks super colorful under 10k you don't need blue lights to fake good coloration. Also, not every color will be represented accurately under blue lights. Pinks, for example, look terrible in windex blue tanks but amazing in 10k tanks.
I agree with you on this I'm running mine at 80 blue 8 white. My first post I was running @ 65 blue 20 white but I've been messing around with the settings so much I'm trying to get my whites back up slowly to around 15-20 as I think I don't like the windex look I tried at 80 blue and 3 white so as of last week I'm bringing the whites up 5% a week and might even settle on 18 you never know.
My sps are growing well under these settings but my euphyllia seem to be washed out a little and I've lost colour from my frogspawn. Not sure if this is due to the light not being white enough or low alk @6.4 dkh ? Corals are using about 1.2 dkh per day so raising my dosing up to keep it around 7.7dkh. Manual dosing at the mo (complete pain in th A).
But dosing pump turned up this morning but waiting on tubing now, so a couple more days of the manual. I know I need to dose 35ml of alk per day just for consumption that raises 1.2 dkh per day spread over 2 doses it's bloody annoying.
(back on topic now)
I do like running it just blues at night for an hour though.
Can i ask what lighting you are running on your tank please.
Wow yea 18in would be great that way I would have some wiggle roomHi yeah will be plenty if not slightly high power for that shallow of a tank mine is 18" high and I (after talking to another user) have turned them down to 35% blue and 5% white for the last week and a half as my frogspawn have bleached. The colour has come back on 2 tips at the moment. I do hope they will recover.
I run mine about 9" above the water line and as my tank is 18" high with an inch of sand and the water about an inch and a half from the top it's less than 16" of water.
very nice!! How high above the tank is it and what settings?
Update on my Tank using a viparspectra with an added Reefbrite strip
Lovely looking tank. What are your settings for blues and whites on it.
Update on my Tank using a viparspectra with an added Reefbrite strip
You beat me to itvery nice!! How high above the tank is it and what settings?
I wouldn't even thought about that. I only have 4 fish in my tank so I wouldn't say large bio load but as I have never tested this tank for nitrates or phosphates (naughty I know) I didn't want to go down the route of my nitrates are this and should be that, phosphates are that and should be this as I feel its number chasing. I only test alk,mag,cal,temp and salinity. I get algae on the glass and a little dusting in a lower flow corner so I know it's not clean.I noticed a lot of people get better or worse results using higher percentages on the brightness. According to Jason Fox higher nutrient tanks can take more light. And when he starts running a cleaner tank, he actually turns his lights down some.