Ai sol super blue users need help!!

[Slick Fork]

They take a lot of playing around to get the colour where you like them. My schedule (controlled via profilux) goes like this:

Dimming points:

Regular blues:
9:00 - 3% (they overnight as moonlights at this level)
13:00 - 40%
18:00 - 40%
22:00 - 3%

Royal Blues:
9:15 0%
13:00 - 40%
18:00 - 40%
21:45 - 0%

Daylights

9:45 - 0%
13:00 - 40%
16:00 - 50%
18:00 - 40%
21:15 - 0%

[Nano]

Mine is similar

8:30am 3% both blues white at 0
10am they slowly have climbed to about 25% for all by this time
12:00 whites 35% blues 40%
It stays like this til 5, then starts to teeter down to just blues and by 11 they are off,
In this time my fuge light will turn on at about 9:45
I'm still playing around with it but my tanks only 15"deep so I have them lower

[lastlight]

If so many people are running these lights at less than 50% of peak... why can't people raise them up higher and get away with fewer fixtures at 100%?

[Nano]

You easily could depending on the lenses and tank, I would if I had a larger tank go with the 70 degree optics

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by lastlight

If so many people are running these lights at less than 50% of peak... why can't people raise them up higher and get away with fewer fixtures at 100%?

This leaves me thinking the same thing

I haven't read through all the posts, but why would I spend so much denaro ?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

This leaves me thinking the same thing

I haven't read through all the posts, but why would I spend so much denaro ?

Exactly my thoughts. If I use less units, higher up, at 100%, don't I get the same results??

[Slick Fork]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Exactly my thoughts. If I use less units, higher up, at 100%, don't I get the same results??

Provided you're happy with the spread there's no reason you can't do that. For me, I picked up one unit for my 3 foot tank and to get the side to side spread I needed I had the thing 18" above and had a TON of light spillage over the front. So, since I'm hunting for a 4 foot tank upgrade anyway I decided to bite the bullet and get the second unit now. It's crazy over kill for my current tank but when I find my 4 footer I'll already have a lighting system that works for it!

[jorjef]

All LPS AND softies, one Monti as an experiment. tank 24" deep, four feet wide, two lights about 10" from the water.

1 pm to 930 pm
35 min ramp up

White 45%
Blue 55%
Royal 55%

9:30pm to 10:30 pm
10 min ramp

white 0
Blue 0
Royal 99

10:30

Off

[fido19]

all interesting replies surprised that no one has still passed the 50 threshold
still looking for a setup that would keep the moonlights on at night and have a nice color in the tank

[tang daddy]

I got 2 ai blue over a 75g at over 1 ft. I still find the white intense and has bleached sps at 65% white, most sps is under 6-8" of water and Lps at the bottom.

My lighting period is:

3am to 3pm W-0 B-2 RB-3 lunar cycle on
3pm to 5pm W-12 B-18 RB-24 45 min ramp
5-7 w-20 b-28 RB-34 45 min ramp
7-10 w-45 b-68 RB-76 90 min ramp
10-12am w-25 b-30 RB-40 45 min ramp
12-2am w-8 RB-18 45 min ramp
2-3am w-0 b-2 RB-3 30 min ramp

Still dialing it in and may change the lenses to all 70% as bleaching is still around.... I also get indirect sunlight during the mornings to afternoon through a few windows to the right side of the tank.

I recently added 2 t5 for supplements with Fiji purple and they come on from 6pm to 12 am to see what kind of colors my sps and montis will have.....