Q&A The World Wide Corals Way (EP2) - Lighting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- We asked hobbyists to submit their questions and now it is time to answer them! On this episode, Josh and Tommy talk about the lighting spectrum and how it affects coral growth, color and water elements.
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Love hearing from someone who truly “gets it”. These corals are adaptable and want to survive. Great video!
Great video, appreciate all the solid advice, not overcomplicating things and all your experience.
Thank you for watching!
Loveee these fantastic in depth videosss hope you do more on things like flow and maintenence
Thanks for the suggestion!
Hey thanks for picking my question!! Thanks for all the great info. U guys are legends
Thank you for your question! You rock!!
Thanks for the great info!
Thank you for watching!
Great information on lighting. I know I had issues with lights in the past. You just have to set it and leave it alone.
It can be hard to do, but patience will pay off in the long run
More!!!
Definitely! Do you like this more themed style Q&A vs the ask me anything about anything?
Great video. I'd love to see a video on what happy and sad corals look like for lighting, water parameters, flow, etc. for all types of corals, sps, lps, softies
Great suggestion! Look for our upcoming series on specific corals for some of this info
Would love that too !
I’m using a Finnex Marine LED bar on my 75gal. Has 4 color channels (BWRG) and is programmable in 3hr increments.
So implementing your concept for lighting, and since I have an LPS / softie tank, would this be a good starting point:
10am-1pm: on and ramp up to Blue 100
1pm-7pm: Blue100, WRG20
7pm-10pm: Blue100 and ramp down to off.
We’re not too familiar with those lights. Just make sure the intensity isn’t too strong, just like any other light. We also prefer to put the whites on first in the morning/ early afternoon. So we can enjoy blue for the rest of the day as well :) but that’s just preference. Again, just make sure they’re are getting the appropriate amount of light :)
What kind of equipment do you use to take pictures and videos of your coral/fish?
Is the latest g6 light spectrum up on the sps dominant tank your website?
Thanks for the video always good information 👍👍👍
Does WWC have radion gen5 blue schedules ?
I am considering the Dalua Illumagic x4. I would be interested in your opinion of these lights vs the traditional radion gen 6 lights. Are there any pluses and minuses of one over the other?
Can I use the hydra 32 setting on your website on my hydra 26hds? Or won’t be the same?
i use less light specifically to make sure my corals don't over grow in my nanos. its easier to control calcium as they don't need as much. i kinda hate fraging cus i dont like wearing all the safety stuff so the less i have to do the happier i am lol.
For a IM 20 gallon long. Would you use 1 G6 or 2 AI prime?
Are you guys at wwc using the polluplabs abplus scedual on your raidons for your mixed reefs . I have the xr15 g5 blues. I baught the blues because I thought it was going to give me the deep blue light I was looking for. Not true in my case. Should I have baught the pros? Instead of the blues? I hear you guys run the pros. Do you guys have a wwc light program for the blues I can download? Should I not be using abplus for a mixed reef? I turned down whites to 30% on mobius the program is running at 40% intensity. Am I doing this all wrong? What do you think?
If you’re looking for a deeper blue look, just adjust the other blues till you see the spectrum/color you’re looking for. The only thing you really have to worry about is have the light TOO high of an intensity. Don’t stress too much about the lighting, you can use the programs we have on the site, adjust it to your liking, and make sure your water parameters are consistent!
@@WorldWideCorals so I can just download the program for your 100gal mixed reef and just adjust the program intensity and I'll be good? My goal is mixed reef too. With acropora and micromussa together sharing the same lighting program.
@@marcosherrera675 Yes that’ll be fine :) just make sure the corals are acclimated to the light intensity.
@@WorldWideCorals thanks so much for your help.. you guys over there at wwc are awesome.
@@marcosherrera675 Thank you so much! If you ever have any questions, don’t be afraid to contact us over on Instagram/Facebook or give us a call 🥳
I wish I could come to the farm for a day and give the reefing community a better understanding for happy and sad corals and understanding reactions to too much light vs not enough I think that's what we really want to know par numbers only tell us so much and some of us are tired of chasing numbers or over-thinking lighting
That’s right, we don’t really measure par or do much of chasing numbers here! Just water tests and water changes! And just keeping the numbers consistent;)
@@WorldWideCorals but to give some of us in the hobby a better understanding for happy and sad corals a " corals reactions to light " episode is a must because I will admit more of the people I know have killed corals because of too much light I for one but I understand lighting is so controversial but it really doesn't have to be
@@WorldWideCorals and I personally run your 100g schedule on my diffused hydra 32s over a 40BREEDER that's the only reason chasing numbers comes into play if you have similar corals in 75 to 120 par then I can match that in my aquarium and know for certain lighting isn't the issue that's why everybody ask for par numbers because if you have corals that are happy within a specific range others would like to match that to have equal success because if all of our parameters are in the general vicinity lighting would be the only reason next to flow why things wouldn't be happy
@@davidhartman2081 That would be a great topic for a future video/discussion! Thank you for the feed back! 🙌🙌
@@WorldWideCorals of course, it's 2022 time for rudimentary reefing to be established and understood shall we say , I would drive from Summerfield to the store just to be part of that I believe it would simplify things for future reefers to not get stuck or dwell like I did 😉 contact me any time I'm in your computer I promise David Hartman I even own my own par meter because Aqua Illumination forced me to become an ocd light scientist but I promise if we made a video about corals reactions nobody would ever have issues with lighting or ever need a par meter lol 🙏🏻💯💪🏻
I got a Detonator Zoanthids from y’all and it tells me if it isn’t getting enough light
Great information, i am about to i upgrade to a bigger tank and will switch over from leds to t5s blue+, purple+ and coral+.
Would there be any effect with this change and how would one go about reducing the stress
Like 319 guys know it is going to be a long short to to see my comment
So what you are saying in the video the white lights I do is white light only 1 or 2 hours of white and more of blue
I don’t no if my blue light is not the best
But it stll is a blue light can yous tell me what is the best way to help my pulsing Xenia grow?
What lights are you using on the tank? If you’re having trouble with Xenias, double check your water parameters and overall flow in the tank as well :)
@@WorldWideCorals I’m useding the coral life led I did turn off my wave maker because I thought it was way too much flow today I’m going to work on the Lighting maybe one hour of white
And the rest blue shouldn’t be just straight blue
So were should I send questions, because I have a list 📃👀
A question on lighting? If you have any further questions, you could message us on social media or through email :)
How do you know coral is getting to much light before it’s to late?
You will notice changes in the coral such as discoloration, polyps not opening, etc.
Brb on the way to get 50 incandescent bulbs
Reef usually have fish and fish look like garbage under blues and where these corals are ive never seen the types of blue used in reef tanks and some corals look nicer under whites
That’s correct! That’s why lighting also depends on your preference and what you’re keeping in your tank as well :) These aqua-cultured corals that we keep are very adaptive to light! The main thing to focus on is proper water parameters and flow :)
I have a radion g5 xr15 blue using the RMS mount on an 80 cm length x 30 cm width and 47 cm height tank. I'm running the ab+ template what intensity do you guys suggest?