I run blue in the morning (white in the afternoon for growth) then back to blue in the late afternoon and evening. The white light really makes the fish pop! Especially anything purple or yellow!
Food scarcity is the reason anthias and other groups of fish like chromis pick off the weakest of the bunch until they end up alone. Feed several small amounts per day and adjust nutrient removal as needed. :)
I run the so called “moon” light at feeding time only. Less stress on main tank and everyone is not in frenzy mode as in normal lighting. Plus the picky eaters come out and feast more often. I see more activity in the babies as well.After feeding they settle down considerably. Then my normal white light is back on. It depends on the fish you have generally. I wish people stop listening to other people about blue light. 9 times out of 10 they’re going off of what’s been popularly said.. best advice is to see for yourself what’s going on and observe fish activity and determine for you’re own set up. Not these so call marine biologist on RU-vid. Because I guarantee you they don’t agree with each other most of the time and just mimicking popular advice. Take care of your fish ✌️
Thanks ! I run my tank with 2, Red Sea reefled 90’s. I run them with a 65% blue and 35% white spectrum. With a ramp up time of one hour. My corals love the setup and show a lot of growth and coloration 🐠☀️🌴
The answer is that it really doesnt matter as long as whatever you choose, you leave it alone. People constantly changing lights is the problem with lights. Not the lights themselves. These creatures require consistency.
I had the same thing happen every time that I've tried to introduce anthias. I tend to run more of a 10k during the day and switch to the 20k in the evening. This gives me the opportunity to see the tank show off its different colors and I've always read that there is a benefit to running more than just the blues.
I feel like it’s just best to do both , early morning blues with purple than slowly add whites and slowly rise the intensity of whites till you have more or less how it will look in nature and than like at sunset time slowly go back to more blues than at night just blues…. And u have it all in one !! By the way the fishes prefer more the white lights they are more active when the whites are on
The blue light is certainly a pleasing tone. but, I feel like you can really see the corals better with a light that has more white. I mean, why have awesome blue corals that have no pop at all under blue light. A lot of corals get lost in blue light.
My experience with lyretail anthia is similar. I have a 7 foot tank with 4 lyretail. Male and 2 female school and one female is ostracized to the other side of the tank. Was harassed and developed “pop eye”. Got so bad I thought the eye was going to fall out! Read that erythromycin was successful to treat it so I dosed 1/2 strength Chemiclean 3 weeks apart and the fish was cured!
Think putting up reef tank . Blue light bad for Retina give immaculate generation, which is blindness. I only use white light I would use . Coal grow huge with blue light . White light small . Still look nice . Thanks for video .
...macular degeneration. Interesting point - there do appear to be a lot of articles out there on the effect of blue and UV light. My guess is the risk is with the sun (as opposed to a little fish tank), but who knows.
Interesting point about the anthias, comparing the tanks I do enjoy the first one better the fish look better and so does the tank . I am running 2 Radion Xr15 on AB+ program and I am going to add a third on a 150 cube tank 36 x 36 for more par as much as I like the blue I am going to use the full crisper lights .
Thank you. This was so helpful. I have an evergrow light, and can set the bulbs to a day/night cycle. Totally lost on what to set all the different colours
You need both. At least 6500-10k for some of the day and 450 actinic towards the later hours of the light cycle. I start my Kessils off blue then ramping up to bright white in a few hours to a peak and then gradually fading to a 20k actinic in the last hour before shut off.
Nice video- Both tanks look awesome- Although you got the blue Radions and the tank is whiter and the one with the AI Prime is bluer....remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I incline more for the bluer one but that is me, mostly everyone will go for the whiter one I think. You should move the anthias that is about to die in here it will not only bring color and more life to the tank but you get to save the poor little one. Other than that another nice video thanks for sharing!
I use coralcare gen 2. Only blue morning and evening. I run white and blue max at noon. My one aquarium is like two different aquariums depending on lighting😌
Hello Dmitry, I attempted to download the schedule for treasure reef from the link and website but neither work. It only downloads a 4kb file. I downloaded your schedule from the AI website and liked it since I can see the fish color more but is too white. I really like this schedule especially since I have mostly LPS. Thank you!
I think light it is one of the most personal choices you can make. I am not a fan of total blue so my lights pass both spectrums during the day. Ps. I've read that anthias don't like even numbers and tend to decline if you have 4 or 6 or 8... but I found no research to confirm it.
Stunning tanks, your hard work and patience have been well rewarded. I think I'm liking the 10K, 'white tank' a bit better (for the reasons you've cited). I'm completely on board with having the pumps mounted on the back wall, much better hiding that way than having them mounted on the end tank walls. Have you considered staggering the pumps in terms of their mounted heights, or would placing them lower stir up the substrate too much?
I think putting them lower will be hitting the corals too much, I did try staggered heights on my Treasure Reef before and I liked it as well. I might move things around at some point.
I like both amazing tanks 🔥 Would be cool to do 10k I always wonder if the blue light hurts my cats eyes. And I dont have much coral so might have to try a more white tank 🤔
I love a 10k. Interesting thought on the cat, technically the white light would also have the blue mixed in, we just don't see it. So if it is a wavelength - it would be a problem in either case.
In a world where it's subjective, why not do both - white and blue in a day cycle if you're undecided? WWC runs theirs this way. I prefer a more whiter spectrum and just like your video of the orange shoulder tang, my orange shoulder tang also really pop the first half of my lighting cycle when it's whiter. The 2nd half is bluer and slowly ramp down to all blue before lights goes out.
@@TreasureCorals hey Dmitry, you make nice videos, I have for you question Would you use with 2 stages carbon activated on your Ro water to prevent goes chlorine to your aquarium ?
The white looks much better, this super blue fad is totally unnatural. Even at 50ft deep its not as blue as we run our tanks. I use t5s and prefer a much whiter spectrum.
I run an LPS only tank under lower blue lighting. I thought that increasing the white light will increase the algae growth. What have you noticed between the two lighting systems in terms of algae growth.
Good question. I did run an experiment on white vs blue light and there was no difference in algae growth on the same system. A lot of people believe that, but I'm not sure it actually happens.
@@AOG_ETH ah, great question - I usually turn off all the aquarium lights at night, but if there's some stray light from something else in the room or window - I don't get too stressed about it
fish look better under white and corals like better under blue. Best colors for fish in blue light are white, silver, and yellow. Red, blue, purple fish are disappointing under blue light
I found that white light with blue on at the same time works best for corals and they grow strong and get better colors only reason why blue light even exist because it brings out the colors under blue light it's not to mimc the moon light because in all honesty the ocean is very dark at night with no light coming in this is the resting period for corals and fish and they need it so white light is best then turn off the lights at night
