AI Hydra Setting Question

[rick4him]

I have a 24-25 gallon tank and an AI Hydra (the original
One) that is hanging about 8 1/2 inches from the surface of the water. It's about 15 1/2 inches from the surface of the water to the sand bed. (So about 24 inches from the light to the sand bed.). I'm just curious if you could help me with settings for my light.

Any thoughts on what the best settings for my lights would be?

Thanks!

 

[GimpyFin]

What do you have in the tank?

 

[rick4him]

What do you have in the tank?

I have some LPS and Softies..maybe adding some sps soon.

 

[rick4him]

Here's what I'm using right now...

Right now I believe I go from 11am to 11pm with a one hour ramp up / ramp time. I have UV, V, DB, RY on 75 or so. Then G on 18, DR at 11, CW at 40%

Thoughts?

 

[GimpyFin]

How long have you been running the light now? I usually start a little low until I get a feel for how things are going to respond. (The blues and whites can be quite powerful.)

 

[rick4him]

How long have you been running the light now? I usually start a little low until I get a feel for how things are going to respond. (The blues and whites can be quite powerful.)

I've actually had it up for a long time (years) so I'm not worried about hurting any corals. Any thoughts on the settings I'm using now?

 

[GimpyFin]

Oh, I gotcha. Your settings actually look fine to me, and it sounds like they've been working ok. I usually run the blues/v/uv fairly high and white lower. Green/red is a toss up as they're not used as much. Reminds me, I actually still have all the parts of an original Hydra (Except for the heatsink) in my closet for when it was originally upgraded to a 52.