AI Del sol LED how intense should i have

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by Nano

Should be more then enough
My tank was the same dimensions but an inch taller. I found once I hit the 65-70% range stuff started bleaching so I left it at 50% or so over all.

Also had my light about 8" off the water or 23" of the sandbed. And I was keeping mostly sps. So for you id personally stay around 50% if you find your zoas to look like they're reaching for more light crank it up a bit.

I have my lights 12" AWL and do the sunrise to sunset program to simulate a normal day maximum of 80% blue 85% Royal blue 65% white @ 3pm this works pretty good and everyone seems happy. I have LPS, mushrooms & zoes mostly
This picture shows the lights @ 12" AWL as suggested by AI hanging guide, seems to work well so far.

This is about 11am.

This is about 4pm.I still find myself tweeking though, I guess because I can and so easy.

[donkey77]

i meant AI sol not del sol my bad, sounds like that car honda del sol lol anyways thanks for the response all

[donkey77]

does anybody leave there blues on at 2 or 3 % for the night

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by donkey77

does anybody leave there blues on at 2 or 3 % for the night

I leave one channel on at 1%. 3% on both is too bright for night IMO.

My lights are 6" AWL

[Madreefer]

I'm probably wrong but I beleive for the lunar schedule to work the lights have to be at 2 or 3% for the lunar schedule to work. I have only the royal blues set for that and not all 3 channels. The lunar schedule actually works pretty good. It still ramps up and down from there. Sometimes its a little bright in the middle of the night and other times it's complete darkness. I have it set so the lunar svhedule is only on the last set timer of the day.

[Aquattro]

I got tired of trying to shift the time and manage the moonlit cycle, so I just manually built my profiles, running the royal blue @ 1% (ramped down for 30 min) from 11pm to 8am. Then ramps up to full daylight by noon for 8 hours, then back down.
This is all done via an Apex controller.