Halide w/no glass UV and pigment

[frogg21]

Corals ability to get a tan is what often makes them look great.. Kinda like people, I feel like I'm looking at pasty white corals that need a tan!

The idea is to make the corals produce the pigments they had to on the reef again by gradually reducing the UV blocking glass on a DE halide.

I know this is probably a really bad idea.. And I know UV is, in general, bad for living things.

Even if it worked on some corals it seems like corals that aren't ever found in shallow reefs wouldn't have ability 'tan,' and would bleach or fry.

Question is does anyone know of any experiments along these lines?

 

[m-six hundred]

I would not recommend it. Removing the UV blocking glass can cause your fish to go blind.

 

[frogg21]

I don't want blind fish! Seems like UV for pigmentation might be good if you could carefully control the amount..

 

[briankmarsh1980]

I wouldn't remove the uv glass

 

[evil]

Uv is bad for everything. Fish coral people plastic wood paint. Only thing it doesn't affect is metal. There was a case report of a patient burned when the uv filter was left off the operating room light. It's just something you don't want to mess with.

 

[frogg21]

Ya, at 7000 ft and this far south, everything deteriorates fast due to the UV.