Aqua Illumination Prime HD Schedule

[Daniel Troconis]

Ecotech's Coral Lab did a study with a couple of different spectrums/schedules and compared results in this document (page 7). SPS AB+ had very favorable results, so many hobbyists have recreated that with their settings on Radions or the equivalent on other lights. Other than trying to mimic a specific spectrum to get maximum results, folks also try to balance that with a look that's visually appealing to them. So a lot of the settings and schedules you find online are a combination of the two.

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

WOW, great study and very helpful!

 

[Daniel Troconis]

WOW, great study and very helpful!

Thaks for sharing

 

[biophilia]

I've been running settings that are pretty close to "AB+" spectrum on my Prime HD. No complaints so far! Visually, the color is nice (similar to ~17,500 K spectrum to my eye) and coral growth has been decent.

UV: 119%
Violet: 116%
Royal: 79%
Blue: 80%
Green and Deep Red: each @ 4%
Cool White: 19%

I have it run at those settings for 8 hours along with a 2 hour ramp up/down on each end.

Mounted ~7" above your waterline, it should give you decent PAR for SPS to within a few inches of the sandbed -- albeit with a little shadowing due to being point-source.

 

[Daniel Troconis]

I've been running settings that are pretty close to "AB+" spectrum on my Prime HD. No complaints so far! Visually, the color is nice (similar to ~17,500 K spectrum to my eye) and coral growth has been decent.

UV: 119%
Violet: 116%
Royal: 79%
Blue: 80%
Green and Deep Red: each @ 4%
Cool White: 19%

I have it run at those settings for 8 hours along with a 2 hour ramp up/down on each end.

Mounted ~7" above your waterline, it should give you decent PAR for SPS to within a few inches of the sandbed -- albeit with a little shadowing due to being point-source.

Do you have a photo of your reef to view your inhabitants for better reference?

 

[Daniel Troconis]

I Recently found this article regarding Natural Reefs and Aquarium light set ups:

https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2013/12/lighting

 

[biophilia]

Do you have a photo of your reef to view your inhabitants for better reference?

Didn't have any recent ones so just snapped one with my iPhone. Lights are drawing down for the night so the colors look a little funky...