AI Hydra Settings Thread

[McGee10]

I am confused. The Pic you posted of your "current" setting has UV at 3% and CW at 40%. Which is it, or am I missing something?

two different people, gregrocks79's is the one in the phone. SonicBoom is the other set of settings.

 

[Sonicboom]

I am confused. The Pic you posted of your "current" setting has UV at 3% and CW at 40%. Which is it, or am I missing something?

Which picture? I don't think I've ever had uv at 3.

 

[EllisJuan]

My Director went offline for no reason tonight. I could not reach it at all. When this happen's what do the lights do? Like if I was out of town, would they just stay on?

 

[gregrocks79]

It's my pic lol

I have mine set to 3. And I have already noticed some corals coloring up!! The uv IMO makes the corals put on sunblock and get darker and lose color. Well, in my tank anyways lol

 

[hilgert]

I see a lot of Director users here. How about Fusion users?

 

[ReefCowboy]

Guys sorry to jump in, but i have a question related to what you discuss here. I have my lights on at 10:30 and sunset at 7pm with a 3 hour ramp.
I disabled the moonlight effect, and still, my blues dim down but stay on all night until next cycle.... Why is that? Isnt that the moonlight that i disabled?
Thanks for any tip on this. I would like all lights to be off

 

[EllisJuan]

I see a lot of Director users here. How about Fusion users?

I have a Apex running Fusion, but I chose to buy the Director instead of the AWM.

 

[Sonicboom]

It's my pic lol

I have mine set to 3. And I have already noticed some corals coloring up!! The uv IMO makes the corals put on sunblock and get darker and lose color. Well, in my tank anyways lol

Agree, I'll try to post a good pic tomorrow but after lowering my uv down to 30% I am showing incredible color changes in at least 3 different corals. I just dropped it to 20%.

 

[Sonicboom]

Guys sorry to jump in, but i have a question related to what you discuss here. I have my lights on at 10:30 and sunset at 7pm with a 3 hour ramp.
I disabled the moonlight effect, and still, my blues dim down but stay on all night until next cycle.... Why is that? Isnt that the moonlight that i disabled?
Thanks for any tip on this. I would like all lights to be off

Do you have all of the lights at a zero minimum?

 

[gregrocks79]

Yup little to no uv is key to excellent colorization IMO

 

[ReefCowboy]

Do you have all of the lights at a zero minimum?

Aha that is it, thank you for the tip!

 

[Benson0219]

I finally got my Director. Going to hook it up now.

 

[Sonicboom]

Aha that is it, thank you for the tip!

Glad to help!

 

[EllisJuan]

My Director went offline for no reason tonight. I could not reach it at all. When this happen's what do the lights do? Like if I was out of town, would they just stay on?

Has anyone experienced this or know the answer?

 

[Sonicboom]

My director dies that every so often but the lights have continued with the cycle.

 

[McGee10]

I see a lot of Director users here. How about Fusion users?

I am using Fusion and like it a lot, but this is a Hydra thread

 

[McGee10]

It's my pic lol

I have mine set to 3. And I have already noticed some corals coloring up!! The uv IMO makes the corals put on sunblock and get darker and lose color. Well, in my tank anyways lol

I have mine set to 40% UV and there is not one brown coral in my tank!

 

[gregrocks79]

Nice!! Nothing was brown in mine either per se, they were just not as bright. I already seen them coloring up

 

[Tzwizzle]

Hey guys quick question. I recently noticed my devils hand leather is slightly bleaching at the top of the tank when I switched from 40% to 30% after 2 weeks in acclimation mode. Here are the settings.

40% 30%
W 18 21
V 18 21
R 6 7
G 7 8
DB 24 28
RB 24 28
UV 21 24

I mostly have LPS and Softies. Thoughts? These settings are pretty low compared to what I have seen other people run.

 

[EllisJuan]

How deep is your tank and how high off the water are your lights?