AI Prime 16HD schedule thoughts

[ratkomkd]

Hey folks, please give me your thoughts on my schedule. I have two clownfish and one fire shrimp. I’ll add softies in week or two. I like to run my lights for about 12 hours and than still have some lights before going to sleep
Once I add corals I’ll increase the red and green.
Does moonlight can cause any algae or harm some other way ?

 

[cshouston]

You don’t need to increase the red and green. It’ll just invite more algae growth. Moonlight at night for a few hours won’t hurt anything. Try the setting which adjusts the moonlight to the current phase of the moon, and it only needs to be set around 5%.

Crank the blues up higher, leave red and green around 5%, and adjust cool white to personal tastes. The tank looks pretty dim right now. How large is the tank? You only have the one light?

 

[ratkomkd]

The tank is nuvo fusion 20 and in person doesn’t look that dim. On camera always looks darker for some reason. I have only one light.

 

[nereefpat]

12 hours is a long time. It seems like most people are 8-10 hours.

Are you home all day? I run my lights from 1 PM to 10:15, so I can look at my tank in the evening.

 

[cshouston]

The tank is nuvo fusion 20 and in person doesn’t look that dim. On camera always looks darker for some reason. I have only one light.

How high off the water is it? It looks pretty high up there. The Nuvo 20 is 24”x15” so one light for soft corals is fine, but I’d set it to about 8-9” off the water line.

Schedule is fine since you’re not my at peak brightness for the entire time. I’d just increase the blues. Alternatively, if you like the spectrum and just want to increase intensity, tap and hold the schedule line with one finger and use another finger to swipe up and down to increase/lower, respectively. You look to be under 50% intensity on that light, so you can turn that up a good deal.

Finally, renting a par meter to really dial in your desired intensity is never a bad thing.

 

[CindyKz]

I really liked this video. Very helpful, especially regarding spectrum.

 

[ratkomkd]

How high off the water is it? It looks pretty high up there. The Nuvo 20 is 24”x15” so one light for soft corals is fine, but I’d set it to about 8-9” off the water line.

Schedule is fine since you’re not my at peak brightness for the entire time. I’d just increase the blues. Alternatively, if you like the spectrum and just want to increase intensity, tap and hold the schedule line with one finger and use another finger to swipe up and down to increase/lower, respectively. You look to be under 50% intensity on that light, so you can turn that up a good deal.

Finally, renting a par meter to really dial in your desired intensity is never a bad thing.

Thank you on your reply. The light is 9” from the water. And definitely I’ll rent par meter so I know with what I’m dealing with

 

[rossco]

12 hours is a long time. It seems like most people are 8-10 hours.

I run all of my tanks from 7:30 AM til 11PM and have for years. Low level blues on each end of the photo period. This is my nano with an AI prime.

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

Something that most people don’t seem to know is that you don’t have to fiddle with the sliders to get your desired color and brightness level. You can set the color temperature instead.

Click the circular icon top right next to the moon.
The outer circle is your color temperature and you’ll see the K rating change as you drag it around and the inner circle is your brightness level.

You can switch back to the slider screen to see what the app has set if you want.

I run 20K at 80% which gives this:

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

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