Add Purple tint/covering to ATS lights

[cymonous]

I bought an ATS that has two white LED lamps. I've had the ATS running for 5 months. It grows some algae, but not the thick greenie stuff. Mostly comes out brown/tan. Can I add some kind of purple covering/tint to make the lights more into grow lamps?

 

[Bpb]

No. Realize when you add a tint you’re just filtering out light. You aren’t adding color. You’re effectively just making the light weaker. If you want the red/violet mixture of some turf scrubbers you’ll need lights that use those color diodes.

 

[Garf]

As above, however, reducing the intensity may in fact help in the short term with encouraging green if the high intensity light is damaging the photosynthetic system.

 

[G Santana]

Is your tank new?
My ATS wouldn't grow algae until it was past the Dino phase which was after a couple of months, then it exploded with growth, however, I used a grow light for plants and like many, it looks pink when on.

 

[cymonous]

My tank is 3 years old. I have hair algae growing on my rocks. I did manual pull for a while, but now I pull out and scrub my rocks in water change water. The algae come back. I've been doing lights out for three days every other week for last three months. I do run my ATS lights opposite my main lights, which is about 18 hours a day.

 

[SantaMonica]

The lights are too weak. Leave them on 24 hours. More info:

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