Lighting

[sage2000]

Can someone help me with the light colors and time periods I should have set up. I’m looking to have a reef tank and some fish any help would be appreciated

 

[Jedi1199]

I run my lights with straight blues and nothing else. I find the violets and greens make my tank look unnatural and dulls the colors of my fish and corals.

I ramp my lights up over a 90 minute period. Attempting to mimic natural sunlight swings. If I am reading correctly, it looks like you are going with an hour ramp up. That should be ok.

I am unfamiliar with your app, so I can't say for sure what I am seeing? It appears, that you have the Violets and blues at 100% and the orange at 46%? Is this accurate?

 

[sage2000]

I run my lights with straight blues and nothing else. I find the violets and greens make my tank look unnatural and dulls the colors of my fish and corals.

I ramp my lights up over a 90 minute period. Attempting to mimic natural sunlight swings. If I am reading correctly, it looks like you are going with an hour ramp up. That should be ok.

I am unfamiliar with your app, so I can't say for sure what I am seeing? It appears, that you have the Violets and blues at 100% and the orange at 46%? Is this accurate?

These are the colors and % I’m going with right now. Suggest any changes ?

 

[Jedi1199]

Here is what I run. I have found this to be the best for MY tank.

0800-0930 ramp up from 0 to 80% blue only. Increasing from 80% to 87% thru 1500 and then back down to 80% by 2000 then ramp down to zero thru 2130. Overnight I run them at 1% for 2 hours from Midnight till 0200. then back to zero till morning.

I run ONLY blues as recommended by a local coral farmer friend of mine who runs a similar setup over his store tanks.