Sonicboom
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AI Hydra Settings Thread
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Has anyone yet compared levels with a par meter? I have my blues high my whites at like 20 uv at 34 Red green at 20 and my Oregon mummy eye which is on the sand hates the lighting and never fluffs up- I moved it to shade under my fragrack to help it. Water paeans are all stable and perfect.
kmu
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Hi guys, tomorrow I will be installing my 4 Hydras on my tank which is still cycling but has some live rock, live sand, and several small LPS and softies corals that where just too glued to my live rock.
The tank is a 72x36x36 tank and the 4 Hydras will be suspended between 8" to 16" from the top of the tank, depending on the spread.
My corals and my eyes love how the Radium (20k halide) and T5 (ATI Blue plus and ATI Purple Plus) combo looks
Im looking for a 20k to 25k look similar to my previous set up, how should I set my numbers and %?
The tank is a 72x36x36 tank and the 4 Hydras will be suspended between 8" to 16" from the top of the tank, depending on the spread.
My corals and my eyes love how the Radium (20k halide) and T5 (ATI Blue plus and ATI Purple Plus) combo looks
Im looking for a 20k to 25k look similar to my previous set up, how should I set my numbers and %?
saltyair
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TWEEKEDTA
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I have actully lowered my blues and whites a little more about a week ago and my tank and corals never looked better. i had slight bleaching on my red cap montipora that is about 3/4 down so i lowered my whites to 21 ans blues to around 60 and the next day my monti colored right back up imediately. i have had these settings since and love them. sunrise about 11 full strength at 1230 to 8 then ramp down to 910. my tank is 22" deep so depending on yours if its deeper you may run them a little more. but my personal experience i like the seetings im at. im sure i could get them up more but slowly acclimating if id like but i have great PE on everything right now so im not going to mess with it.
w 21%
v 35%
g 10%
r 8%
db 60%
rb 55%
uv 33%
w 21%
v 35%
g 10%
r 8%
db 60%
rb 55%
uv 33%
Texanjordan
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I dont have my tank set up again yet, but I have a brand new pair of Hydras for my 90. They are mounted about 14 inches off of the water. When I do restart my tank, what recommendations would you have for the light settings? Because I am going to start of with no corals, when I do add them, they will be on the sandbed for acclimation. I plan on keeping LPS, SPS, Leathers and Zoas.
saltyair
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Great info - thank you. Yea my 180 is 24'" deep - so increasing maybe 5% would work. So having the red @ 5% is that at peak time? did you have issues with the red? or more personal look?
I also added an extra week to my acclimation period.
I also added an extra week to my acclimation period.
saltyair
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Nice thing is about the hydra's is the acclimation setting. you can start @ 60 or 70% - set acclimation for 40% over 2 weeks or a month - should acclimate with out issues
TWEEKEDTA
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No problem. yea on the red and green if you go much over 15% youll see more algae on glass, i just found keeping it around 10 has been good just enough for a little algae over time. i just have green and red at around 10 for the duration of my peak on time. the only setting i have that varies is uv i have it ramp to 28 ish then to 35 ish at 2-7 then back down to 28 for an hour or so then ramp to 0.. im not home so i dont have excact ramp times on that.
TWEEKEDTA
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well unfortunatly for me i acclimated for 5 weeks, which was fine i believe but in the end the settings i had were way to high. so pretty much trial and error i found these settings now to be great for all corals and a good bright light still with just enough blue for my corals to pop, but not be to blue looking.. when i had my settings high, my sps were ok to speak, but my lps corals were retracted. now they all have good PE. Also my clam in the sand bed has been fully out too. just after having these lights now for a few months i kinda found out there a lot stonger then first thought.
saltyair
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they are a lot stronger than I thought too. Yea I am finding that I am adjusting as I go - I am on a 3 week acclimation (coming off vertex led's) like you I am finding that I am lowering the %. I kinda got them were I think I want them and were the corals want them lol. I am sure I will tweek.
Texanjordan
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How does this acclimation thing work? I understand that you can use the acclimation setting if you get a huge shipment of coral in all at once, but what happens after that when you add a few corals now and than, do you restart the acclimation program with every new coral? I would have to restart the acclimation process every other week if this was the case.
saltyair
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one coral would start it on the sand bed - but not an issue to restart the acclimation for a two week period imo for any new coral - especially if it didn't come from a led tank.
My tank is a 90g 48lx24dx18h and I was running the Aquamedic 2x250w MH with 2x54w T5s. I just recently changed over to two Hydras with the Director controller. So far I haven't taken my settings down from the default 80% for mid-day and I haven't seen any bleaching, tissue recession, etc. Could it be because my previous lighting was so strong? Even at 80% the light from the Hydras don't come close to my MH fixture in terms of visible light.
I'd be interested in hearing what settings people with similar tank configurations are using. I have a mixed reef with a few LPS, SPS, softies, etc. Some photosynthetic anemones etc.
Also I've got my weather settings set to Umhlanga Rocks, Kwazulu Natal. A coastal resort in South Africa that is known for its reefs.
I'd be interested in hearing what settings people with similar tank configurations are using. I have a mixed reef with a few LPS, SPS, softies, etc. Some photosynthetic anemones etc.
Also I've got my weather settings set to Umhlanga Rocks, Kwazulu Natal. A coastal resort in South Africa that is known for its reefs.
Garypharm
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My tank is the same depth as yours. I can't put my lights any where near 80%. I had the blues around 70 and the white at 45 or 50 and it bleached my higher sps and lps, and I got a ton of algae even though I run phosphate. I've gone all the way down to about 45 on the blues and 30 on the whites. Just lowered them about a week ago, algae is gone but have to wait and see how the coral does.
How long ago did you switch over? Any algae issues with the lights at the 80% mark? And how high off the tank are they?
How long ago did you switch over? Any algae issues with the lights at the 80% mark? And how high off the tank are they?
Garypharm
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I'm struggling dialing mine in. My lps are not happy, but my plating montipora is growing like crazy. I did bleach a birds nest frag though which was disappointing. Think I had it too high up. Got another birds best frag yesterday with the lower settings and put it very low so hopefully that will work. Very happy with the hydra though so far. Can't imagine that the radions justify double the cost. And with the recent merger I'm excited to see what kind of software will be coming out in the future.
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