sps system with Radion color temp favors?

[xtlosx]

I've recently changed my lighting intensity from 75% to 55%. They are Radion Pros 9" from water line. Over the past two weeks my colors have becoming much from rich and full. They were pale. I have also been feeding much more. (1 time a day before, 4 times a day now).

I'm very surprised that they only need to be run at such low intensities. I use 14k color temps for the first half of the day then switch to 20k on the second half.

I would be interested in how intense everyone else is running their lights.

Interesting. I was running radiant color profile (Radion Gen2s) 9" from the water at 65% and had terribly low PAR values (sand was 100-125 and top of my rock was barely 250). I have been increasing slowly and changed my profile to start at 20k in the morning, high noon is 14k then back to 20k to dark. I've been ramping up, and am now at 90%, but it's been several weeks of ramping. Colors are getting better now that I'm increasing light, and I am sure my fixtures being 2yrs old are playing a part in the intensity.

My red planet is the best indicator actually, it's half way down, and was half red but mostly green color. Since I've been ramping up it's gone from a pink red, to a dark dark red and a bunch of the green is disappearing.

I realized this morning that my profile until now was 20k -> 15.5k -> 20k. No clue where the 15.5k came from, but it wasn't giving me the colors I wanted overall, so I'm at 14k now. We'll see what happens in a few weeks.

 

[Chris155hp]

My buddy runs a couple of Radion Pro's over his SPS tank and is getting great colour running a custom setting which is VERY close to the preset 14K setting.

whats different about it? is he bumping uv to a 100% or something?

 

[Tacticalbaton]

This is my schedule

and this is how my SPS look

The last two settings of this schedule,one is custom the other is sunset! Could you give me your color settings for these two as that I am trying to re create you settings on a Radion Schedule, thanks for your help

 

[schwebb]

In the old days i ran 3 400 was 10 k's and 2 6500 k's only at peak photoperiod. My growth and color was great. I tried similar on my new set up (only 2.5 months old) and started to grow quite a bit of algae rather quickly, and my phosphates and nitrates were 0. So something needs to be adjusted like raising the color temp, and possibly lowering the intensity.