Ai Prime HD, Par values ?

[NanoReefLife]

Does anyone have any par values they have personally tested at different depths ?

Ive had my ai prime for almost a year and getting the right spectrum and intensity has been a struggle while getting good colours out of the corals.

Based on the par values Ai specifies i would be not providing my corals with enough light, as i run it about 45% total power but im afraid to go higher intensity as they are already losing colour and have never had corals browning out.

Any experience or suggestions would be greatly appreciated


Current settings at peak intensity through the day

 

[GimpyFin]

IMO, if they are slowly losing color and/or starting to brown, it's more likely insufficient light rather than too much. (They'd probably start bleaching if light was too intense.) Your white channel is probably fine where it is. I would probably turn the blues, Violet, and UV up to about 75, monitor, and see how it goes from there. The UV on these is 400nm so it hardly even considered UV. Both it and the violet also don't use much of the fixture power, so there's no reason you can't run them at least where you have the blues.

 

[NanoReefLife]

IMO, if they are slowly losing color and/or starting to brown, it's more likely insufficient light rather than too much. (They'd probably start bleaching if light was too intense.) Your white channel is probably fine where it is. I would probably turn the blues, Violet, and UV up to about 75, monitor, and see how it goes from there. The UV on these is 400nm so it hardly even considered UV. Both it and the violet also don't use much of the fixture power, so there's no reason you can't run them at least where you have the blues.

Thanks for the advice. The colours of the corals fade but never brown.

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[GimpyFin]

Cool. Yeah, I would just turn it up a bit and keep an eye on everything.