We have a jbj 24 gallon nano with fluorescent lights and a jbj 28 with leds and the led tank with the fluorescents is much more colorful. We have them in the same room and the difference is pretty dramatic. Anything I can do other than change lights? I have both sets of blues on by the way, it's even worse with the blues off.
LED makes tank colors washed out
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NanoReefWanabe
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what LEDs are you using?
colours, ratios, amperage?
colours, ratios, amperage?
It's the LED hood that came with the tank. They offered two different ones and mine is the so called professional one with a 89 watt output. It has Daylight "” 25 x 3 Watt "” 14K Dawn/Dusk "” 4 x 3 Watt "” Actinic/466nm Moon "” 2 x 1 Watt "” Nite-Vu/456nm but they are non adjustable. Thanks for any ideas.
NanoReefWanabe
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the problem s yo dont have anywhere near enough blue LEDs to give any colour...
typical DIY fixtures are generally 2:1 blue to white, at the very least they are 1:1 blue to white...your fixture appears to be 1:8 blue to white...even as cool whites they are too white to give much colour...
my fixture is 1:1 but my blues run about 50% and whites only around 20%
typical DIY fixtures are generally 2:1 blue to white, at the very least they are 1:1 blue to white...your fixture appears to be 1:8 blue to white...even as cool whites they are too white to give much colour...
my fixture is 1:1 but my blues run about 50% and whites only around 20%
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