Acro's showing Green under G2's

[Eric The Red]

Hi, I went from MH's to a set of G2's. Since then many of my acro's are getting a green pigments. I run 100% blues / 30% white / and 18% of red and green. I can't raise the overall intensity over 40% with burning tips. Any suggestions about how I get the unwanted greens to go away? Several of my various purple acros are mostly green and even my pearlberry...

 

[erndog1001]

What color were they before the G2s?

 

[Eric The Red]

Well, my purple acros were....purple. And my pearlberry had a pearl colored body with blueish/purple coralites

 

[erndog1001]

Well there is a big thread someplace on here about getting SPS to blue up under LEDs in general. You can look that up. As I recall there was some good info in it.
That being said I have some Purple Stylos, ORA purple something(sorry I'm terrible at keeping track of all these names)
These I've had for some time and they have stayed the same color.Or even gotten brighter than when I got them.
I just picked up a blue piece like a week ago and I literally have been out of town since the day after I got it.
My blues & whites are 100% Reds & Greens 25% @ 80% Intensity. My lights are 16.5" off the water so no problems with bleaching.

 

[Eric The Red]

All i have to say is...WOW. My coral would be absolutely fried if I put my whites and intensity up that high. I've talked to other guys like myself who keep theirs 12" over the water and we peak at 40-50%. Anything higher and bleaching starts to occur.
thanks for the reply.

 

[erndog1001]

Well I'm kind of experimenting atm. I want to see how far I can push it before it does start to harm something. So I'm ever so slowly ramping them up and lowering closer to the water.
Seems to me (if your lights are minimum of 9" above the water) that you should be able to slowly bring the whites up slowly if you want.

 

[erndog1001]

Update
Got home yesterday The frags I bought just before leaving look great. The purple is still purple
And the other which was a greenish blue under the other guys MH Now seems to be bluer at the tips at least

 

[jfuka78]

Alright can someone and ecotech shine some light on this. Three weeks of just radions and the cream base of my tenuis is now green and noticed more green on my other acros.

 

[cali9dub]

Guess they aren't gunna touch this one.....

 

[Eric The Red]

So excited for my new Giesmann Spectra MH/T5 combo to be installed

 

[jfuka78]

I am very disappointed that nobody from ecotech has had any response on this subject. Whether to much or to little light. I put my radiums back on and blam coloring back up. I was running 20k on the radion.

 

[jfuka78]

This is not a bash and no means do I mean to bash ecotech I have 4 pumps and two lights still

 

[Braver69]

Have you guys considered that turning down the other color in the light might be the cause of the pigment shift? I mean 18% on red and green is not very much and then your running the fixture at a max of 50%, so your leds on that spectrum are only running at 9% of max power. I would try turning up those colors and see if your corals respond better. Some of the color we see is merely the coral reflecting that part of the spectrum.

Was my thought anyway.

 

[cali9dub]

I just tried turning my whites down to 35% and my reds/greens to 10%. Pumped all the uv/violet and blues (in the 400-500nm range) up to 100%