More help with lights please.

[Bikerharold]

I have a 90 gal reef tank. Have a couple of hammer , three goniopora , green polyp leather, and an elegant coral.
Purchased Aqua Illumination Hydra 26 HD, two of them to light my tank.
My question is what would be the settings for the individual lights. Do you start at 50% for all the colours, or is their a setting more beneficial to my tank and corals. Have a bit of algae problem but will be setting up a GFO system to help take care of that in the next week or so.

Cool white
Royal Blue
Blue
Violet
UV
Deep Red
Green
No instructions with lights so could someone help with the proper settings.
Have been warn that if lights set to high you can fry your corals. Fish store not much help either told to just keep trying until I find something the corals like.:headwalls:

 

[nmotz]

I'm assuming these are much like my AI Primes. I would use the color temp settings and shoot for 17-20K depending on taste. Overall intensity I would start at maybe 50% and see how the corals respond. If they start bleaching or won't open fully, you'll know they are getting too much light.

 

[jpruitt]

What are you using to control them?

 

[nmotz]

What are you using to control them?

They're controlled by a program that you access via wifi on your phone or computer where you have full flexibility to raise/lower each individual channel, the intensity, control times, etc. It's really awesome once you get used to it.

 

[jpruitt]

Got ya. If you are looking for a start point and want a 20k look I started at 70 percent on all blues and 30 on whites. Red and green I set to 20 but have since moved up to 75 percent. Now I am running 100 percent on blues and 45 on whites with 75 on green and red. Tank looks awesome and grows sps like nothing. If you are going after lps you can set lower and move until you like the color.

Here is mine.

Cool white 45
Royal Blue 100
Blue 100
Violet 100
Uv 100
Deep red 75
Green 75.

Slowly adjusted from the base number I gave you to these in about 4 weeks time.



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[Bikerharold]

Great!
Thank you will give it a try at your base # and see what happens then start to move up slowly or the next month.
Light work great and neat the different effects you can get with them. Want my corals to start growing. This hobby takes a long time for good results, short time for bad. L O L