Leds and LPS
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Ohioreef1700
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Amazing luck they grow corals just as good as t5 and they look amazing under the blues
Scorpius
Stick Head
Probably so. What intensity were you running?
organism
code monkey
It's all about the intensity of your white LED's. If they're over 30% your LPS can suffer, and if you want that nice pop then it looks best when the whites are at 20% ish. For my Radion I keep the blues at 100% all day and the whites top out at 20% for a couple hours with a little bit of red LED's and it doesn't look super blue during that time.
Dkuhlmann
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organism I've got a question pertaining to my lights that I think goes along with this thread.
I recently, about 3 weeks ago purchased an Ocean Revive Arctic T247 to replace my Chinese Black Box. My CBB was running at 100% blue and 60% whites without issue. So when the new lights came I set them up at 60% blues and 40% whites and pretty much killed my acans and blastos. :hammer: So now I've been playing with the settings and haven't come up with a good choice. I've tried many combinations but all seem too bright.
As of today I was running blues at 35% and whites at 15% but still seemed to much for my LPS. So I turned down the whites to 10% and doesn't seem like enough :hammer:
I just now after reading this that you wrote turned my blues to 80% and it looks great. Most of my corals have been opening but not all the way up and my frogspawn has almost 0 polyp extension. My elegance has been Po'd ever since getting the new lights.
What do you recommend I set these up to? I do know and have noticed the new lights are so much more powerful than the CBB and I get better tank coverage with the new lights.
I recently, about 3 weeks ago purchased an Ocean Revive Arctic T247 to replace my Chinese Black Box. My CBB was running at 100% blue and 60% whites without issue. So when the new lights came I set them up at 60% blues and 40% whites and pretty much killed my acans and blastos. :hammer: So now I've been playing with the settings and haven't come up with a good choice. I've tried many combinations but all seem too bright.
As of today I was running blues at 35% and whites at 15% but still seemed to much for my LPS. So I turned down the whites to 10% and doesn't seem like enough :hammer:
I just now after reading this that you wrote turned my blues to 80% and it looks great. Most of my corals have been opening but not all the way up and my frogspawn has almost 0 polyp extension. My elegance has been Po'd ever since getting the new lights.
What do you recommend I set these up to? I do know and have noticed the new lights are so much more powerful than the CBB and I get better tank coverage with the new lights.
Dkuhlmann
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Yeah Mark, I sure did fry them. All of my acans pretty much are toast. I've thrown about half of them out and the others still have florescence so I'm letting them stay. My Frogspawn is totally PO'd my elegance is doing better.
I'll readjust them now to 60 and 5 then see how today goes. Or do you think I should lower the blues to around 40 to see how the Frogspawn does? The blues don't seem to upset things like the whites do. Good Lord are they BRIGHT!
They were adjusted yesterday to 80 blue and 15 white, so I just dropped them to 60/5, will see how that goes, unless you think i should lower the blues to 40 or even less. The 80 blue didn't seem to bother them at all. But still can't get the frogspawn to extend even a small fraction of what they were. They use to get huge and now not much.
OK so for an experiment I decided to go with 35 blues and 5 whites. Surly can't hurt anything at that.
I'll readjust them now to 60 and 5 then see how today goes. Or do you think I should lower the blues to around 40 to see how the Frogspawn does? The blues don't seem to upset things like the whites do. Good Lord are they BRIGHT!
They were adjusted yesterday to 80 blue and 15 white, so I just dropped them to 60/5, will see how that goes, unless you think i should lower the blues to 40 or even less. The 80 blue didn't seem to bother them at all. But still can't get the frogspawn to extend even a small fraction of what they were. They use to get huge and now not much.
OK so for an experiment I decided to go with 35 blues and 5 whites. Surly can't hurt anything at that.
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Mark9
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I tried to turn whites up past 5, but it seemed like too much light.
Been meaning to turn up the blues, either I forget, or i'm lazy, haven't decided which yet.
I'm going to ask the guy I got the light from what he runs his at.
He has a coral store and this is pretty much the only light he uses.
He's been switching everything over to LED's.
Been meaning to turn up the blues, either I forget, or i'm lazy, haven't decided which yet.
I'm going to ask the guy I got the light from what he runs his at.
He has a coral store and this is pretty much the only light he uses.
He's been switching everything over to LED's.
Dkuhlmann
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I can't wait to hear what the guy has to say. I'm really stumped with a good setting for these lights. That's not a bad thing, because I for sure will always have more available light if needed. I just hate the fact that I killed so many fantastic acan and blasto frags. Still haven't posted their pictures in my thread. I may do that sometime this week.
Dkuhlmann
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Holy crap! My lights are 13" from the top of the tank, I would completely have to redesign how they're hung in order to get them any higher. I may go this route one day, but for now I'm going to keep the settings low at least with the whites between 5-10 and more on the 5 for now. Blues still don't seem to affect my corals one way or the other but the whites do and if I have them too high I get a chit brown algae that forms but is gone shortly after the whites are off.
organism
code monkey
Yeah Mark, I sure did fry them. All of my acans pretty much are toast. I've thrown about half of them out and the others still have florescence so I'm letting them stay. My Frogspawn is totally PO'd my elegance is doing better.
I'll readjust them now to 60 and 5 then see how today goes. Or do you think I should lower the blues to around 40 to see how the Frogspawn does? The blues don't seem to upset things like the whites do. Good Lord are they BRIGHT!
They were adjusted yesterday to 80 blue and 15 white, so I just dropped them to 60/5, will see how that goes, unless you think i should lower the blues to 40 or even less. The 80 blue didn't seem to bother them at all. But still can't get the frogspawn to extend even a small fraction of what they were. They use to get huge and now not much.
OK so for an experiment I decided to go with 35 blues and 5 whites. Surly can't hurt anything at that.
I would do 80-100% blue and 0% white for at least a week or two if not more, then very slowly bump up the whites to 15-20% over the course of a couple weeks. Going only blue for as long as it takes the corals to start looking better won't hurt your tank either, I ran my whole display on only 100% royal blues for 8 months as an experiment and everything looked great and grew fast from zoas to montis
I had the exact same problem when I switched to my Gen 2 Radion.
I was running a ramping curve up to 65%, it fried everything, but didn't bleach. Things just shrunk until they were gone.
Now I run my light at 35% Max 8 inches over a 20 inch deep tank.
As far as colors, I just use the Kelvin slider to set the colors.
20k in the morning ramp up to 17k all day ramp down to 20k in the evening.
Since I have been using this the Radion has kicked butt, everything looks great and growing. I even have some LPS that are happy in the tank towards the top.
I was running a ramping curve up to 65%, it fried everything, but didn't bleach. Things just shrunk until they were gone.
Now I run my light at 35% Max 8 inches over a 20 inch deep tank.
As far as colors, I just use the Kelvin slider to set the colors.
20k in the morning ramp up to 17k all day ramp down to 20k in the evening.
Since I have been using this the Radion has kicked butt, everything looks great and growing. I even have some LPS that are happy in the tank towards the top.
Dkuhlmann
New member
5 on my whites is almost too much, but I guess that's because I fried them at 40 two weeks ago. Right now I've got my blues set to 60 and no whites, I'm going to play with the settings today with a half an hour each time I change something and see how my Elegance reacts, it's the most sensitive to the lights.
Right now I've got my blues set to 60 and no whites, I'm going to play with the settings today with a half an hour each time I change something and see how my Elegance reacts, it's the most sensitive to the lights.
