Ai prime settings

[Fishko]

My current settings for my ai primes are below any improvements i can make?

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

What coral do you have?

 

[Fishko]

What coral do you have?

Mainly lps and softies probably not going to have any major sps maybe one or two montipora

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

Mainly lps and softies probably not going to have any major sps maybe one or two montipora

That should be fine for what you have. If you get the monti's though, you will probably have to make a few changes.

 

[Yates273]

With your UV that high it doesn’t hurt the corals?

 

[MichaelReefer]

With your UV that high it doesn’t hurt the corals?

Nope. I run dang near identical to that. It's BRS settings when they tested the best settings on their AI Prime Review episode.

 

[Yates273]

Interesting I may have to slowly ramp up to that my question is if I’m running three do I divide that number by three or do I make each one that number

 

[don_chuwish]

How does that look to the eye? Extremely blue? And what schedule is that applied to?

 

[Fishko]

Nope. I run dang near identical to that. It's BRS settings when they tested the best settings on their AI Prime Review episode.

Ya it copies the ecotech radion spectrum

 

[Fishko]

How does that look to the eye? Extremely blue? And what schedule is that applied to?

It doesnt look extremely blue, but blueish. I wish my frogspawn didnt look as see through when fully expanded. My lfs uses kessils and they seem to give the lps more color

 

[MichaelReefer]

It doesnt look extremely blue, but blueish. I wish my frogspawn didnt look as see through when fully expanded. My lfs uses kessils and they seem to give the lps more color

You can always add like 5 more white and it will lighten it up.

 

[MichaelReefer]

Interesting I may have to slowly ramp up to that my question is if I’m running three do I divide that number by three or do I make each one that number

No, you want all three like that. I run two, and they are both those same settings.

 

[don_chuwish]

I was using a BRS AB+ *.aip file off the AI Facebook group, thought it was waaay too blue to look at. Yesterday I switched to the Leon Tan file: https://www.aquaillumination.com/signature_series/leon-tan
Much more pleasant to the eye but of course I've no idea how coral will do long term.

 

[cilyjr]

That should be fine for what you have. If you get the monti's though, you will probably have to make a few changes.

Why?
This mimics the corallab A B plus settings. I'm curious as to why you think changes may be required for montipora?

 

[MichaelReefer]

I was using a BRS AB+ *.aip file off the AI Facebook group, thought it was waaay too blue to look at. Yesterday I switched to the Leon Tan file: https://www.aquaillumination.com/signature_series/leon-tan
Much more pleasant to the eye but of course I've no idea how coral will do long term.

Can you send a screenshot with what all the numbers are?

 

[Porpoise Hork]

With your UV that high it doesn’t hurt the corals?

The Prime HD's only have one 400nm and 415nm UV LED chip in them. So even running that channel at 119% the total UV output is not very high.

Here is the breakdown of the Prime HD's LED's
3 - Cree XP-G2 Cool White
3 - Cree XT-E Royal Blue
3 - Cree XP-E2 Blue
1 - Cree Deep Red 660nm
1 - Cree XP-E2 Green
1 - SemiLED 415nm
1 - SemiLED 400nm

Most of the light's power comes from the Cree XT-E and E2 chips with the XP-G2's filling in the rest of the total spectrum.

 

[don_chuwish]

Can you send a screenshot with what all the numbers are?

At the peak:

 

[MichaelReefer]

At the peak:

Seems low, is this on a Hydra?

 

[don_chuwish]

Seems low, is this on a Hydra?

The photo on the site shows him using Hydras, yes, and many of them.

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

Why?
This mimics the corallab A B plus settings. I'm curious as to why you think changes may be required for montipora?

CoralLab has several AB+ schedules. They are mostly based off of the Radions.

https://ecotechmarine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ReefWholesale_CoralLab.pdf