AI Hydra Settings Thread

[Reeftub]

I also just cycled my 190g 60x27x27 and have 3 hydra 52 and have one frag of zoos and a frag of hammer in there right now and looks fine. I plan to add my 2 plain hydras to the 190 after getting everything transferred from 65 so I will see how the 2 hydra52 and plain hydra look together. I lost my acan after switching from sols to hydra so you may be right about the acans.

 

[Reeftub]

More of my 65

 

[gregrocks79]

Nice looks great!!! Very clean

 

[kmu]

Can you control Hydras and Hydra52s at the same time with the regular wireless controller?

 

[Sonicboom]

Can you control Hydras and Hydra52s at the same time with the regular wireless controller?

Yes

 

[ace6090]

Settings Help

Settings Help

Need some help with light settings. I have a 40 gal breeder with one AI Hyrda hung 12" from the water line. I have a 12 hr light cycle, 3hr ramp up, 6hr on, 3hr ramp down (ramp schedule attached). My lights are currently set at:
UV: 30%
V: 30%
DB: 50%
RB: 50%
G: 5%
R: 5%
CW: 40%

I have a duncan, zoas, chalice, maze brain, 2 acans, and torch coral. The corals are not doing well and are browned or receding. They have been getting worse over the last couple of weeks. I have not changed the settings in hope they would recover. Can anyone please help with the settings?

 

[McGee10]

Need some help with light settings. I have a 40 gal breeder with one AI Hyrda hung 12" from the water line. I have a 12 hr light cycle, 3hr ramp up, 6hr on, 3hr ramp down (ramp schedule attached). My lights are currently set at:
UV: 30%
V: 30%
DB: 50%
RB: 50%
G: 5%
R: 5%
CW: 40%

I have a duncan, zoas, chalice, maze brain, 2 acans, and torch coral. The corals are not doing well and are browned or receding. They have been getting worse over the last couple of weeks. I have not changed the settings in hope they would recover. Can anyone please help with the settings?

If it was my tank I would back off on the CW down to about 25% and UV down to about 20% see if that makes a difference. also maybe cut down from 12 hours to 10 or more at least till you get thing under control

 

[ReefTankHunter]

Little up needed.My last up date went well.But at the end when my lights went to update, they went to 22% and stopped. Is there a way I can make sure they updated fully, or update them again.

 

[Gagonzalez]

its seems like you have mostly SPS. if you don't have much for LPS then i can see that. it seems you can run the hydras high if your mainly running SPS and softies or zoes are ok with them too. but LPS like my acans are so damn finicky with these. i wonder if people who have the hydra 52's have the same issues with LPS corals bc if not i am thinking about upgrading mine to 52"s

I just got a Hydra26 and set it to a 50% acclimation mode for the next 6 weeks and my Acan was fine for the first few days then it puckered up and shrunk down for about 72hrs before I moved him under a ledge with no direct light.

He looks fine now. He puffed out and has even opened up to feed at night but I think it will be a slow process to start bringing him out into the light. Being that I went from PC Lighting to Full spectrum LED I should have expected something like this would happen. When I bought him, he came from a tank with Marineland Led's at about 6" from the light and was Orange, Yellow and Green. Over Time, in my tank, he turned a nice Rose color but I have a feeling that the Hydra will be bringing out the deep color's again. Time will tell.

By the way, my Crocea, Frogspawn, Alveopora, Monti Cap, Zoa's and Paly's all were immediately happy with the change of lighting and are getting more and more color each day.

For anyone with Acan's, I would plan on placing them somewhere in the shade and transition into the light slowly or build some kind of cover/screen for them down in the sand if possible so that they start with indirect lighting.

 

[Gagonzalez]

Need some help with light settings. I have a 40 gal breeder with one AI Hyrda hung 12" from the water line. I have a 12 hr light cycle, 3hr ramp up, 6hr on, 3hr ramp down (ramp schedule attached). My lights are currently set at:
UV: 30%
V: 30%
DB: 50%
RB: 50%
G: 5%
R: 5%
CW: 40%

I have a duncan, zoas, chalice, maze brain, 2 acans, and torch coral. The corals are not doing well and are browned or receding. They have been getting worse over the last couple of weeks. I have not changed the settings in hope they would recover. Can anyone please help with the settings?

My settings are as follows currently BUT I turned on Acclimation mode at 50% for 6 weeks so the lighting will take a long time to ramp up to full strength. Since you have LPS corals I would probably do the same. Especially if your coming from much lower intensity lighting like PC or a single tube fluorescent.

UV=30%
Violet=60%
Deep Blue=80%
Royal Blue=75%
Green=15%
Deep Red=15%
White=35%


I know my Acan did not like the lighting so it is currently under a ledge and will slowly be exposed to the light over time.

Good Luck

 

[ReefTankHunter]

Little up needed.My last up date went well.But at the end when my lights went to update, they went to 22% and stopped. Is there a way I can make sure they updated fully, or update them again.

 

[EllisJuan]

I just noticed one of the white LEDs in one of my 52 pucks is out. :/

 

[kmu]

I have been following this thread for some time & trying some settings suggested, however, I cannot get a setting I am happy with.

Tank is 24x24x24 (2ft cube) with 1x Hydra mounted within my hood (fan/cooling is outside the hood), with the unit approx. 5" above the water.
Hydra fitted for 2months.

Mainly LPS with a couple of SPS.

W = 30
Violet = 10
Red/Green = 5
Blues = 65
UV = 25

Starting wish I kept the SOL unit.

Any suggestions?

Not a crisp light or particularly bright. The red & green cause algae & too much red is horrible, I can't see the benefit of these colours. the Violet ...well I can't get that right.

Try this colors, I used to have AI Sol Blues and didn't like the plain blueish color, now with the hydras Im getting much better colors on my corals and fish. (still not as good as T5s but getting close)


Blue 65%
Royal Blue 65%
Violet 65%
UV 25%
Green 15%
Red 5%
White play around between 25% to 40% until you find a color you like.

 

[kmu]

Need some help with light settings. I have a 40 gal breeder with one AI Hyrda hung 12" from the water line. I have a 12 hr light cycle, 3hr ramp up, 6hr on, 3hr ramp down (ramp schedule attached). My lights are currently set at:
UV: 30%
V: 30%
DB: 50%
RB: 50%
G: 5%
R: 5%
CW: 40%

I have a duncan, zoas, chalice, maze brain, 2 acans, and torch coral. The corals are not doing well and are browned or receding. They have been getting worse over the last couple of weeks. I have not changed the settings in hope they would recover. Can anyone please help with the settings?

If it was my tank I would back off on the CW down to about 25% and UV down to about 20% see if that makes a difference. also maybe cut down from 12 hours to 10 or more at least till you get thing under control

Yes lower your UVs way down to 15%-20% and Whites 25%-30% and raise your Violet to match your blues if you want to compensate the some of the color from the UV.

If you corals are browning out its probably because you have your UV too high, I had a Nano with beautiful colors lit with LED (white, blue, royal blue, green and red) and when I added a couple of UV leds all the corals browned out in a couple of weeks"¦

 

[ace6090]

Thanks for the Help

Thanks for the Help

Yes lower your UVs way down to 15%-20% and Whites 25%-30% and raise your Violet to match your blues if you want to compensate the some of the color from the UV.

If you corals are browning out its probably because you have your UV too high, I had a Nano with beautiful colors lit with LED (white, blue, royal blue, green and red) and when I added a couple of UV leds all the corals browned out in a couple of weeks"¦

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. My new lighting schedule is as follows:
On: 8:00am
Off: 8:00pm
Ramp: 2hrs

UV: 20%
V: 60%
DB: 60%
RD: 60%
G: 5%
R: 5%
CW: 30%

I switched from a 36" Marineland Reef Capable Led about a month ago with the previous settings. Since i am turning the lights down should I still set the lights to a 4 weeks 50% acclimation cycle? Or will the decreased light for so long stress the coral?

 

[Benson0219]

I have been following this thread for some time & trying some settings suggested, however, I cannot get a setting I am happy with.

Tank is 24x24x24 (2ft cube) with 1x Hydra mounted within my hood (fan/cooling is outside the hood), with the unit approx. 5" above the water.
Hydra fitted for 2months.

Mainly LPS with a couple of SPS.

W = 30
Violet = 10
Red/Green = 5
Blues = 65
UV = 25

Starting wish I kept the SOL unit.

Any suggestions?

I think that your lights are not mounted high enough. I think that AI recommends at least 12 inches above the water level

 

[Benson0219]

I see that a lot of people are running the CW leds pretty low. When i had my SOLs I would run the CW at 85% for at least half the day. My corals at the time loved them. Are the UV and Violet leds making it necessary to lower the CW???

 

[gregrocks79]

I see that a lot of people are running the CW leds pretty low. When i had my SOLs I would run the CW at 85% for at least half the day. My corals at the time loved them. Are the UV and Violet leds making it necessary to lower the CW???

I've been thinking about that too and lowered my uv and violet and went higher w the cw. Moved it up to 50%. Corals are loving it

 

[Benson0219]

This guy runs his Hydra 52s almost full out...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2391310

 

[TWEEKEDTA]

you can with just SPS it seems... i have my uv down to 15% and violet to 15 to see if my ACANS will come back, there puffing up a little today. we'll see i guess.