AI vega help and suggestions

kframe · Feb 4, 2014

I've been using 2 AI Vegas on my 95g Surfline aquarium. I've read post after post about them and I've noticed their are so many different suggestions on the height fwl , and what settings work best. Most of all the reviews I have read the people have mostly sps dominant aquariums. I've seen on some threads where people say they can't go higher than 25% without bleaching starting, but then I see some people say that they have slowly increased their whites up to 50+% so I'm a little confused..My tank is all lps and softies so I'm wondering if anybody has any suggestions on what light intensities would be good for me? Currently I have the lights 10" fwl, the tank is 24" deep and I have a 2" sand bed. My settings are currently 22% white 65 to 60% on the blues 1% red and 3% green!! Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you

TJ's Reef · Feb 4, 2014

For the Coral you've stated I would probably keep White where you have it, reduce Blue down to 50-55%, bump Greens to 30-40% and Red to at least 15-20% to have better overall color POP....... IMHO

Cheers, Todd

kframe · Feb 5, 2014

Right on... Thanks bud I greatly appreciate the info!!! I read somewhere that the reds can cause a cyano brake out! Do you know of this to be true or not?

TJ's Reef · Feb 5, 2014

If so would take a whole lot of RED to do so. IMHO would not run LED's without Red spectrum, do not need much but very beneficial to the way we see Yellows and Pinks. You will notice a bit more fluorescence to Coral with added Green as well.

Cheers, Todd