00W's AIO Smorgasbord

[luis angel]

 

[00W]

I thought red and green grew algae too?

Correct.
Blue will also.
Just trying to figure out which wavelengths of light might be best.

 

[kingranch2003]

I have a Klein butterfly and a majano wand. I have a white spotted hermit in the sump and it eats all it can reach. Usually after a while my kids/nephews will use the majano wand on the ones thatvthe crab can't reach.

I've seen your white spotted hermit. He freaking eats aiptasia?!

 

[kingranch2003]

Where does one buy T5s

That is a great question man. I'll be honest, when I started, I had never even heard of t5s. I've learned so much from my peeps on r2r

 

[kingranch2003]

Good evening everyone. Starting the catch up.

 

[kingranch2003]

Don't throw the book at Berghia... They'll get squished!

LolI'll throw the berghia at the book!!

 

[kingranch2003]

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Agreed.
Wish I understood it better than I do to be honest.
I believe @ISpeakForTheSeas had a post with a great chart on which algae uses which light but I'm not positive.

One of the best write ups on lighting I've ever seen was from @Bruttall. I'll see if I can find it.

 

[kingranch2003]

Should I order these? These would be my first ever zoa. I have a $50 dollar giftcard to the vendor that sells these.

I say oh heck yeah to those beauties! I'd own em in a heartbeat

 

[luis angel]

Home sweet home
Without lens

With lens

 

[kingranch2003]

Here's one of my first ever r2r posts if you guys get bored lol. I didn't know squat. (Still kinda dont). This is when I found out that my aquarium kit light was garbage and I made this post. Ispeakfortheseas, Jojo and so many others chimed in. (You'll definitely recognize a few)

Greetings from the Gulf Coast! Lights may be the most confusing thing so far for this begginer.

Hello reef family! I hope your sticks are reaching for the Heavens, your torches are swaying, your montis are plating, and that everyone's favorite gsp is behaving itself back there on that island. Of course none of that would happen or be seen without a light. Even before I began this hobby...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[VintageReefer]

Correct.
Blue will also.
Just trying to figure out which wavelengths of light might be best.

We talkin lighting ?

 

[kingranch2003]

We talkin lighting ?

I was hoping you'd find this on your own, I'd hate to have to summon you like SHIVA

 

[VintageReefer]

 

[VintageReefer]

So here’s the lighting formula I figured out years ago

If your light has multiple blue channels and violet, treat them as one channel.

Adjust to desired par

For me, I aim for 100 par on the sandbed. So I make Blue, Royal Blue, and Violet the same, and increase together, until my sandbed is approx 100 everywhere. Slight variations in some spots is normal. For my light, mounting height, and tank, this results in channels 3,5,6 at 40%

Then, white channel is like seasoning. Add white to your taste. For me, this is around 5-8% on ch 4. But i ran my reef over a year with white on 0-2%. And I know many that also do not use white channel at all.

Red and green channel are then leftover on my fixture. They are useless and I leave them at zero

Then to grow macro algae, all you need is red

Lighting complete!

 

[kingranch2003]

@luis angel Man you won!? That's awesome! It was also a matter of time. Way to bring home the hardware, back to the Smorgasbord! You're knocking it out of the park, brother man.

 

[BubblesandSqueak]

finally finished. just filtered 40 gallons RO, made 10 gallons for a water change and changed 8 gallons in the cube. will do the big tank WC tomorrow. all long over due.

 

[luis angel]

@luis angel Man you won!? That's awesome! It was also a matter of time. Way to bring home the hardware, back to the Smorgasbord! You're knocking it out of the park, brother man.

Thank you John!!

 

[kingranch2003]

So here’s the lighting formula I figured out years ago

If your light has multiple blue channels and violet, treat them as one channel.

Adjust to desired par

For me, I aim for 100 par on the sandbed. So I make Blue, Royal Blue, and Violet the same, and increase together, until my sandbed is approx 100 everywhere. Slight variations in some spots is normal. For my light, mounting height, and tank, this results in channels 3,5,6 at 40%

Then, white channel is like seasoning. Add white to your taste. For me, this is around 5-8% on ch 4. But i ran my reef over a year with white on 0-2%. And I know many that also do not use white channel at all.

Red and green channel are then leftover on my fixture. They are useless and I leave them at zero

Then to grow macro algae, all you need is red

Lighting complete!

So lowering just white light a few percent shouldn't effect Par too much? I went from 20% to 12% and without a par meter, I didn't have actual numbers.

 

[Imrahilwjz]

I've seen your white spotted hermit. He freaking eats aiptasia?!

Well ... there were 9 aiptasia on my heater when I added him to the sump. Now there are none. If I put him in the display I wouldn't have any soft coral or sponges left I'm thinking. They eventually get the size of a softball.

 

[kingranch2003]

@Imrahilwjz Now im eyeballing the extra space in my wife's hermit tank