A few awesome palys

[jim95926]

No natural light. What is normal lighting conditions to you. To me its with my lights on. If you come to my house and look at my corals that is what you would see. I agree they look pretty intense but that's what happens when you grow with a majority of actinic lighting.
The guy I bought these from doesn't even use white light at all. He runs strictly blues and purples on his zoas and palys. I went to his house and his corals are some of the healthiest intensely colored corals I've ever seen.

 

[A. Grandis]

No natural light. What is normal lighting conditions to you. To me its with my lights on. If you come to my house and look at my corals that is what you would see. I agree they look pretty intense but that's what happens when you grow with a majority of actinic lighting.
The guy I bought these from doesn't even use white light at all. He runs strictly blues and purples on his zoas and palys. I went to his house and his corals are some of the healthiest intensely colored corals I've ever seen.

Normal light is what would be a good combination of "whites" and blues.
A bit of "day light" would be good!
Something less artificial.
Too much blue light isn't healthy for any corals or zoas.

Grandis.

 

[jim95926]

Ok, for those without leds, here are some pics I just took of my unknowns. leds off, one T5 ati white and one only ati blue 54w on. I dont know why anybody would want to look at corals without some led pop added to them. I still prefer some rb cree in the mix but to each his own right. Enjoy

 

[jim95926]

2 t5s only

2 t5s only




These are with one white ati and one blue ati 54w.
Enjoy!

 

[A. Grandis]

Nice!:thumbsup:
It's a matter of taste, I would say.
Thanks,
Grandis.

 

[jim95926]

Your welcome!
Sorry if I seemed a little rude its not my intention . I just don't understand how anybody could dislike the way corals look under leds. Even if it were just a reflection of light what would the harm be to add a few blue leds. Even white leds make corals pop.
Like you said, it's a matter of "taste."

 

[A. Grandis]

Yes, just a matter of taste, I would prefer to say.

Some people like the very warm look, like 6500Ks.
I prefer a mix of "white" bulbs and blue bulbs, but in a way it would look similar to what I see in the ocean, while diving/snorkeling.
When it's too blue it isn't natural at all. Specially because the majority of zoas come from very shallow waters. They belong to an environment with a warm spectrum, originally.

Grandis.

 

[jim95926]

Dive deeper

Dive deeper

Maybe, if you were to dive on a deeper reef you would see some amazing colored corals. I've got some palys that supposedly came from over 60 feet deep waters off Hawaii and they are pretty amazing. I'm sure its pretty blue at over 60 feet deep and very natural.

 

[terrypercula]

That would make for an interesting thread. What's everyone's favorite lighting spectrum. I'm a "blue" guy myself although I do run whites with it.