Green LED during actinic blue phase

[Hellic]

Fyi, this is for an LPS/Softie setup.

I was wondering if the green led is really necessary during the actinic stage of my light cycle. (When the tank is blue in the morning and at night). When i look up ocean spectrums at around 50meters there's the general violet/blue spectrums but also green according to the graphs. When I look up actinic blue T5 bulbs they seem to have a green peak in them as well. So should I add some green or can I leave it just the blues/violets?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Fyi, this is for an LPS/Softie setup.

I was wondering if the green led is really necessary during the actinic stage of my light cycle. (When the tank is blue in the morning and at night). When i look up ocean spectrums at around 50meters there's the general violet/blue spectrums but also green according to the graphs. When I look up actinic blue T5 bulbs they seem to have a green peak in them as well. So should I add some green or can I leave it just the blues/violets?

Green is not absolute and I run mine at 3-4percent

 

[J1a]

I find significant benefits of having some cyan spectrums 460-500nm for the reef light. It does two things :

1. Produce intense yellow fluorescence, as well as improved red fluorescence.

2. It takes some edge off the purple hue of the violet spectrum. So the actinic spectrum looks more balanced.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

I keep the green and red at a low percentage plus t5 bulbs all day

 

[Hellic]

I find significant benefits of having some cyan spectrums 460-500nm for the reef light. It does two things :

1. Produce intense yellow fluorescence, as well as improved red fluorescence.

2. It takes some edge off the purple hue of the violet spectrum. So the actinic spectrum looks more balanced.

Hm interesting. The reason I chose to drop the green was because my yellow corals started to appear more green while running it with just the blue, rblue, and violet channels. I actually noticed they look the most yellow when I run only the blue channel (mostly 450nm with a hint of 470nm).

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Hm interesting. The reason I chose to drop the green was because my yellow corals started to appear more green while running it with just the blue, rblue, and violet channels. I actually noticed they look the most yellow when I run only the blue channel (mostly 450nm with a hint of 470nm).

Whats The iron lvl?

 

[Hellic]

Fine as far as I know. I really think its more the lighting. Once i put it under only the 450,470nm peaks they appear yellow again. I wonder if I keep the 400-430 peaks off during the blue phase, and add a little green if it would shift the spectrum to favor yellow more. Maybe the actinic/violet was bringing in too much of the bluer spectrum making the yellow appear greener.