Ai sol super blue users need help!!

[Slick Fork]

What's not feeling right? The colour? Timing?

To help with colour selection try just going into manual mode and playing around until you get the colour you like. Keep in mind that it's proportionate.. eg. if you like 10% white and 12% blue and 12% royal Blue, to get the same colour but brighter you would need 30% white and 36% blue/Royal Blue or 50% white and 60% blue/Royal Blue.

[shootingstar]

I run Sol Super blues on a 6 foot 24 inch deep tank. All SPS, the only LPS I have are on the bare bottom.

I have been running them almost 1 year. Started with 3 units and no higher than 35%. Ramped them up very slow. Increasing by 5% once every 3 weeks or so until I reached a peak of 80% for an hour then gradually increased the peak time to 4 hours at peak.

All transitions are 15 min ramps. Lights are 12" above.

Recently added a fourth module.

If it would help I can post my schedule later when I get home from work.

I have them programmed more towards "whiter" (which is better for growth but less to my liking visually) during the day when I am not home and "more blue" (which I like the look better) during the evening when I am at home. Best of both worlds.

[rocksteveo]

i have 4 ai sol blues on a48'' tank 30'' depth and have my highest setting at 70%whites 80% blues and royal blues for 5 hours. i had the slightest bleaching on my birdsnest but it quickly turned light pink. the growth has been quite noticable as ive had to almost double my dosing to keep up with growth.

[fido19]

we need to add more tags to this thread so people can find it easily through google

[Bblinks]

I don't get it?!

[fido19]

if we add tags it will show up on google when people search for ai sol timings or something similar
we should make this an official ai sol timing thread so that new adopters would get an idea on how to start

[fido19]

bumping for more interest

[fido19]

Originally Posted by Slick Fork

What's not feeling right? The colour? Timing?

To help with colour selection try just going into manual mode and playing around until you get the colour you like. Keep in mind that it's proportionate.. eg. if you like 10% white and 12% blue and 12% royal Blue, to get the same colour but brighter you would need 30% white and 36% blue/Royal Blue or 50% white and 60% blue/Royal Blue.

Its the colour that does not feel right sometimes its just too blue lowering it doesent help much i have been struggling to get a 20 k or a 10k look and so far i havent achieved it

have you had any luck so far

[Slick Fork]

Originally Posted by fido19

Its the colour that does not feel right sometimes its just too blue lowering it doesent help much i have been struggling to get a 20 k or a 10k look and so far i havent achieved it

have you had any luck so far

I'm happy with my colour, but it's a really personal thing. What I like might not appeal to you. Like I said, throw it into manual mode and just fiddle with it a bit... took me a lot of trial and error to get what I liked!