Led lighting looks completely different on two different tanks.

[Trickdout69]

Ok so I have 56g reef tank and a 210g reef tank. Now the problem I'm having is i just got the 210 all up and going. I ordered four of the same led lights that I have on my 56 (from Ajm reef LEDs) and they look completely different on the 210g. On the 56g tank everything is bright and colorful. On the 210g tank everything looks very washed out. They are all exactly the same lights and I even swapped them from tank to tank and no difference. I have no ideas of how to explain this. The only diffrence I can imagine would be the 210g has black sand? I love the look of the black sand and don't want to change it

 

[ReefLEDLights]

I goggled Ajm reef LEDs and they are either a Chinese Company or Someone Simply Importing Chinese LEDs.

Binning of LEDs is huge when it comes to reef lights...Street Lights are a different matter...

The Good news is you may have some good grow spectrum.

Bill

 

[Trickdout69]

What does all that mean?

 

[Trickdout69]

The top pic is the small tank the bottom pic is the larger tank with the exact same light

 

[DSP]

Is the water just murky looking from the sand?was it recently put in?

 

[Trickdout69]

No it's been up and running for at least five months. For some reason the camera looks a little blurry on that tank but I'm person it's as clear as anything. What I'm talking about is see the color diffrence. See the top tank how vivid the colors are and the bottom tank is very washed out looking

 

[ReefLEDLights]

I'M mostly familiar with the Cree LED with this said

The Cool White can vary between 5-8K The Royal Blue 445-465nm...

To be honest I ignore the 2 watt LEDs as they are dated.

Huge difference in looks...

If your source dose not specifically bin the colour temp of the LEDs "its like a box of chocolates"

Its not uncommon to see a huge difference in looks with only a small change in spectrum.


Bill

 

[Trickdout69]

I understand what you are saying but if I take the light off the smaller tank and put it on the bigger tank it still looks washed out

 

[Genesis Corals]

Then you answer your own questions that the lights are different, but something in the tanks is (type of glass, sand, depth, corals, rock, etc). Can you adjust the tem of the light (ie make it more blue or decreace the intensity of the lights)?

 

[Jmeza]

It's the glass! Different type, thickness!

 

[Trickdout69]

Yes I can adjust them. It seems to look a little better with the blues turned down. These are the multi color light setups. Do you think the black sand would really make that much of a diffrence. When I get home I will put up another pic of the tank.

 

[shred5]

Well one tank has white sand and one has black, that alone will make the tanks different looking. White sand will reflect light making the tank apear brighter.

 

[Trickdout69]

I agree with that the only thing is if you look at tge corals on the rocks. In the larger tank you can't even tell what color they are they just look washed out and iv tried adjusting the dimmers and seems to make no diffrence. With less blue it looks a little better but don't you really need more of the blue then the white?

 

[Dowtish]

Tang PolicE!!!!!!:mod:


I think you are dealing with a taller tank with thicker glass and non reflective black sand.

 

[Trickdout69]

The tangs are now in the larger tank lol but the crazy part is the tank is not much taller then the other. I just don't want to change the sand to white and not make any diffrence. I just don't like the way it looks right now. I love the look of the black sand but just don't like how washed out everything looks

 

[sredzins]

I started with black sand and switched to white. Really brightens up the tank.

 

[Trickdout69]

What does everyone think about mixing in white sand I really don't want all white nor do I want to take out the black

 

[EndlessOceans]

LED's Bulbs Burn in after time. We run LEDs on all on all our tanks and I always notices that you can see a different in the blues when the lights are new. The blue its always stronger when their new but after a couple of month they burn in.

 

[LoveTheReef]

LED's Bulbs Burn in after time. We run LEDs on all on all our tanks and I always notices that you can see a different in the blues when the lights are new. The blue its always stronger when their new but after a couple of month they burn in.

Hm ... which fixture are you using? (You can pm me if it's easier) I haven't noticed that with any of our led fixtures .. (we are 100% led ourselves )

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