What intensity is your Reef Breeders LEDs set on?

[James w Lewis]

I just set up my new custom 150? gallon custom tank and I purchased the newest reef breeders LED lighting. To me it looks weird compared to the older setup and I cant seem to figure out a decent intensity setting for the custo setting. At this point I have the 12,1 and 2 Oclock settings at 20 for the red and green, 35 for the white and 50 for the 3 blue settings. It either seems too bright or not bright enough and I cant seem to get the blue glow I had with the older setup. on those I had the blues at 100% and the white at 50. someone give me some advice here.

 

[LRT]

Check out brs investigates reccomended settings. Really can't go wrong.

 

[James w Lewis]

On their graphs they have the highest settings for the blues at 40. That just seems too dim but the whites seem way to bright at 40. As I said, the new setup seems way different than the older one.

 

[Bpb]

Crank the blue channels to 100, throw in 10% of red and green to get a dash of that in there, and just raise the white channel to your liking. Use a par meter to verify it’s not too much. I use two of the photon v2+ 50’s on my 150 gallon

Red: 13%
Green: 24%
White: 30%
Blue, blue, violet: 60%

At 12” off the water that gets me about 250-350 on the rock work and about 100-200 on the sandbed.

Intend to prefer a white look. Those are peak values. I have a couple hours of heavy blue only before and after that main 6 hour photperiod

 

[jt8791]

I’ve got blues at 80% and whites at 10% for the peak period, whites easily overpower the blues. Notice more colors on fish with higher whites but the rbta’s seem to do better with more of a blue light. 11” above the water, unsure of par numbers but 3 nems at different heights seem to be liking it so far.

Acclimated them to the light slowly but have been trying to figure out what the best setting is. Have gone as high as 100% blue and 25% and 50% whites but nems went for shade. Still think it could be a bit more blue but need to give the nems time to adjust before I make anymore changes.

After advice from reefbreeders I tried going down to 60 blue and 15 white but it was far too dim for my liking. Didn’t seem like the nems reacted well to more white light, had tried the 80/20 sps schedule before that.

 

[James w Lewis]

I’ve got blues at 80% and whites at 10% for the peak period, whites easily overpower the blues. Notice more colors on fish with higher whites but the rbta’s seem to do better with more of a blue light. 11” above the water, unsure of par numbers but 3 nems at different heights seem to be liking it so far.

Acclimated them to the light slowly but have been trying to figure out what the best setting is. Have gone as high as 100% blue and 25% and 50% whites but nems went for shade. Still think it could be a bit more blue but need to give the nems time to adjust before I make anymore changes.

After advice from reefbreeders I tried going down to 60 blue and 15 white but it was far too dim for my liking. Didn’t seem like the nems reacted well to more white light, had tried the 80/20 sps schedule before that.

That is exactly the same thing I had on my old RB setup. I had to buy the bigger one because my tank is longer but the
new system seems really different. you don't get that glow from the blues, its like blue moon bulbs, and you dont get the shimmer like halides either. Ill crank the blues up slowly and leave the whites around 30.

 

[James w Lewis]

I have a long tentacle anemone that was given to me by a store. It was a tiny little guy but I wanted to save it. the thing got so big and took up so much real estate that I wanted it gone. I couldn't get it out without taking the whole tank apart so I tried everything to kill it. I cut it with scissors and stabbed it with forks and knives and even fed it ice but it wouldn't die. So I embraced it and it is now about a foot and a half across with 4 different clowns hosting in it.

 

[MONTANTK]

I think the highest I put my blues is 50%. Whites don’t go over 25%. So far everything seems happy and the tank doesn’t seem too dim

 

[jt8791]

That is exactly the same thing I had on my old RB setup. I had to buy the bigger one because my tank is longer but the
new system seems really different. you don't get that glow from the blues, its like blue moon bulbs, and you dont get the shimmer like halides either. Ill crank the blues up slowly and leave the whites around 30.

The color is much better at the 1:3 or 3:1 ratio. Pretty happy with it at 60/20, shocking how much more color there is with an extra 5% red white and green.

 

[Jerdel17]

The color is much better at the 1:3 or 3:1 ratio. Pretty happy with it at 60/20, shocking how much more color there is with an extra 5% red white and green.

Can you elaborate. 60/20? Is it red, green, and whites at 20 and the rest at 60? I'm trying to get mine dialed in. Currently I have red and green at 4, royal blue at 50, white at 20, cool blue and violet at 45,

 

[jt8791]

Can you elaborate. 60/20? Is it red, green, and whites at 20 and the rest at 60? I'm trying to get mine dialed in. Currently I have red and green at 4, royal blue at 50, white at 20, cool blue and violet at 45,

Yes you have it right, 60 on blues and violet and 20 on red green and white. I'm still trying to determine what level my rbta's like the most. See a lot of people with bta's and these lights running 60% total power. My rbta's seemed to like sps level lighting at first but two of them moved down low on the rocks and started shrinking. One up top looks real good at lower settings, went down to 40/10 while I was fighting turf algae and dosing reef flux. Working on ramping them back up to see if I can get some improvement on the two nems down bottom. Actually at the moment torn between going 60/20 or 80/20, mixed reef or sps stock settings.

Edit: Actually read of lots of different settings with these lights and bta's, everything from low power up to around 60% power. Some run 1:4, 1:3, 1:2 or even higher than that, seen a few running 65/50. I've gone as high as 60/30 but even that is hard on the eyes looking at the tank. Going too blue seems to wash the colors out, might stick with 60/20 for now, they don't seem to care for the 80/20 1:4 lighting.

 

[RELLIK-REEF]

My red and green are 25%
Royal blue, Cool blue, Violet 75%
White 30%

These are all peak times with a 3hr ramp on both ends.

Light is 13 inches above the water photon 50-V2 pro

I'm getting 140 par on the sand 24 inch tank
So about 21 inches down
200 par mid tank
300 par 6 inches under the water
My ultra rose nems love it every time I adjusted up they got even more fluffy.
Acros mid tank and above and are growing splendidly.
Toadstool and Acans doing great on the bottom. My war coral has grown about 1in since placed in the tank two months ago.
CC yellow jacket has 1 polyp two months ago about the size of a dime now 3 polyps the size of a quarter.
Walt Disney and Gnarf are located about half way up and are happy and growing seemingly fast.
Hopefully this helps.