72" Current Outer Orbit HQI+T5+LED --$600
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Could be the spectrums you are running your LEDs on. I've ran white and blues for over a year and color has always been great. The full spectrum lights are cool with the fancy individual spectrums, but corals tend to do best under the blue uv and white spectrums. Too much red and corals tend to get real unhappy real quick
Also, LEDs tend to produce way higher par levels than we actually need and too high of par levels will be noticed in corals as well. I found a quick peak mid day and slightly lower but evenly spread lighting throughout the rest of the day has been far more successful than spiking it real quick and giving long periods of intense light. If you think about the natural side in the ocean the sun light is only beaming directly over head for so long, the rest of day the light is hitting the water surface at and angle distorting the light rays. How as with us and our tanks, the light is consistently directly overhead and not having any time being angled against the surface of the water
Don't mean to derail the thread, but assuming super high efficiency ballasts, and excluding the power from the fans and the moonlights, it is actually just over $50 a month to run this setup for 10 hours a day. Still not a huge cost compared to what many of us spend on frags every month, but want to make sure anyone reading this doesn't expect a $30 a month cost and get PO'd later.