Rainbow Sunflowers under LED's

[wycombes]

I have 20K 250W radiums that I run on my tank. I borrowed a friends LED's and set them on the actinic to see what some of the zoas would look like and was really surprised by the eye popping colors.

20K Metal Halides, no actinics

LED actinics only

My camera skills with actinics are not good, as the picture is not a good representation of how glowing the colors are.

 

[Friday Night]

Very nice. Gotta love the POP

 

[ErnieC]

Those look sweeeeet!

 

[Snickersalad]

Oh wow... Those are amazing.

 

[650-IS350]

That's what attinics do to corals. It's like checking out a hot chick at a club when they're all glammed up with make up, skimmy clothes and such.

But the true test is how they look in the morning without it.

Just like corals, how do they really look like under "NORMAL" lighting and not blasted with lots of attinic or lots of LED.

 

[treesmoker]

LMAO!!!True that charles......i couldn't have said it better myself! You have such a way with words.:thumbsup:

 

[650-IS350]

That was the best layman terms I could come up with that most can relate with.

 

[badger126]

I have to disagree with you on your camera skills. Those are some pretty good shots, and that second one with the LEDs looks insane!

 

[650-IS350]

......

 

[ddwbeagles]

Wife just asked why I installed actintic lighting in the bedroom. Just seeing if there is something to this theory so I can stop fantisizing about "Wonder-Woman"...lol

 

[tens8273]

Well ever since we have taken corals out of the ocean we have taken them out of "NORMAL" lighting and into "ABNORMAL" lighting. I think WYCOMBES is trying to show (in an visually informative way) the next step in lighting evolution. I mean when I started this hobby, PC's were the norm which then gave way to Halides. Now we have a zillion choices in the blue/purple spectrum for T5 bulb configurations and as we all know that will give way to the new "ABNORMAL" norm...LED's. I appreciate WYCOMBES taking the time to shoot and post the difference between two different "ABNORMAL" lighting configurations and supplying all of us polyp lovers with some eye candy!

 

[650-IS350]

Wife just asked why I installed actintic lighting in the bedroom. Just seeing if there is something to this theory so I can stop fantisizing about "Wonder-Woman"...lol LOL you got me laughing with that.

Well ever since we have taken corals out of the ocean we have taken them out of "NORMAL" lighting and into "ABNORMAL" lighting. I think WYCOMBES is trying to show (in an visually informative way) the next step in lighting evolution. I mean when I started this hobby, PC's were the norm which then gave way to Halides. Now we have a zillion choices in the blue/purple spectrum for T5 bulb configurations and as we all know that will give way to the new "ABNORMAL" norm...LED's. I appreciate WYCOMBES taking the time to shoot and post the difference between two different "ABNORMAL" lighting configurations and supplying all of us polyp lovers with some eye candy!
I don't think what I meant was understood properly and should probably clarify. I do appreciate what combes posted. But I was just implying that, that is what LED's, attinics, powerbrites and others are supposed to do. They enhance the colors and make them pop, sometimes to unrealistic proportions as when you put them back to daylights or regular lighting, it doesn't look quite like that anymore. Unless you want to continously view your tank with 80% blue or all attinic/blue LEDs? then you'll get that look every time. No knock on you Combes, great pic and a good example of what LED/attinics can do.

 

[ryanrid]

your colours might be awesome under actintic but what is your growth like? i use MH with actintic and time so i can view when i get home from work approx 1.5hrs with MH and 2hrs with actintic+purples only so can appreciate the pop that way i still get growth.

 

[wycombes]

Thanks for all the discussion and comments.

RYANRID, I don't have any idea what the growth is with LED's as I have MH's, 20K 250W radiums. I borrowed a panel of LED's from a friend to see if the colors really looked different and was surprised at some of the colors that came out with LED's, I really wasn't expecting that much difference. Regarding the wife stuff I was so surprised by the change in color that I had to have my wife check it out. Needless to say DDWBEAGLE, I won't be installing any actinics in the bedroom.

Growth is great with the 20K's MH.

 

[Friday Night]

Who says you have to STAY untill the morning??

 

[ryanrid]

i have LED in my frag section in the sump and some of the zoos look insane in there whilst pretty average in the DT even with the t5's most notable would be the orange cremsicles. however some of the zoos and acro look much more dull under the led, there is not much growth as the LED is only 16w from memory so not really strong enough for growth, i am interested to see what growth would be like from cree 3W in a decent combo.

 

[TheDean]

Who says you have to STAY untill the morning??

Too funny, but sooo true. I worked in the club industry for about five years, and the original comment on lighting enhancement is a definite reality. You'd be amazed by the difference, especially with lots of skin showing. Red and UV spectrums can hide anything, including slight obesity and the occasional bridge troll.


To stay on topic, excellent photos, and I agree, actinic and its future seems to enhance what we could not see before. But aren't we forgetting that actinics mimic deep water light? 22k is around for that very same reason, yes? I'd like to see some comparisons with real underwater shots at deeper reef ridges.

 

[itzgtd]

Nice pictures

 

[wycombes]

Too funny, but sooo true. I worked in the club industry for about five years, and the original comment on lighting enhancement is a definite reality. You'd be amazed by the difference, especially with lots of skin showing. Red and UV spectrums can hide anything, including slight obesity and the occasional bridge troll.


To stay on topic, excellent photos, and I agree, actinic and its future seems to enhance what we could not see before. But aren't we forgetting that actinics mimic deep water light? 22k is around for that very same reason, yes? I'd like to see some comparisons with real underwater shots at deeper reef ridges.

If I had a few extra thousand I would like to set up club reef here in Tucson.