What intensity do you set your LED lighting

[James w Lewis]

I have a nice programmable led setup. It's covers the entire length of my 100 gallon tank and is about 2 fee above the water. I have chalices on the sand and acros on top. What do you experts recommend for a programmable setting meaning what intensity for whites VS blues throughout a 12 hour day?

 

[kacrocorals581]

what kind is it? I have kessil and ramp up to 100% for 5 hrs a day at 15% color max , but led varys a good bit from different brands

 

[twilliard]

This will all depend on the fixture used.
How many channels and what chips?
Or what manufacture?
My fixture is channel 1 50% 2 80% 3 60% 4 60%

 

[James w Lewis]

Hell, I dont know anything about them. I bought them from Global Leader Aquatics. Right now I have the blue ramping up to 100% for 4 hours and the white up to 40%. The store owner told me they were Chinese made but high quality. They didn't even come with instructions, I had to figure out how to program them.

 

[James w Lewis]

Here are some pics of my setup. They may help

 

[James w Lewis]

another one

 

[James w Lewis]

these pics may help

 

[kacrocorals581]

that seems like a good setting you have them at, just want to gradually get there I started mine at 40% and got to 100% over two weeks you can shock the corals from switching to led and running to strong from the get go.

 

[James w Lewis]

Can you put 100% white on chalices? I buy stuff from cornbread and he tells me not to go over 20% white on chalices. Im thinking that is why one has to be very careful with lighting when you buy from him or they die. Anyway Im at 50% white and 100% blue at the highest for 3 hours.