How to get radions more blue?

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This might be a really weird question, but I just "upgraded" my lights from AI primes to ecotech radion blues (xr15 gen 5)..... and no matter how I play around with the settings I can't seem to get them blue enough to my eye.

I've also had them on my tank now for about a week and I swear every single one of my corals has lost their fluorescence and is turning brown. I'm borrowing a par meter from my LFS tomorrow so maybe it's just not what I'm visually used to seeing I don't know.

Right now I'm really tempted to go buy hydras.

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If you want more blue,turn all your leds off in the app besides royal blue (you can't get more deep royal blue than that). Then slowly adjust the remaining colors to create the spectrum you want.
 
What percent are you running them at? I ask because they look higher than 8-9 inches above the tank (could just be the picture) mine are on radion arms 8 1/2 inches from the water line and at 85% schedule intensity 100% point intensity i only get about 320 par 6 inches down.

As for the blue i think the only thing to try would be turning down the whites
 
If you want more blue,turn all your leds off in the app besides royal blue (you can't get more deep royal blue than that). Then slowly adjust the remaining colors to create the spectrum you want.



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Just start with all blues then add other colors slowly to get what is visually appealing to you. You said you were going to borrow a par meter so that is good because for me it's been impossible to set lights up by eye and you may find what looks good to you is not good for the coral. I'm still a rookie but what I try to do is get the lights set up for the coral as far as par and I stay close to AB+ spectrum durring peak hours. Then I play around and get them set up so the corals are all pretty fluorescent for a couple of hours at night
 

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