Good read on LED spectrums

[SynDen]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2015/4/corals

 

[halmus]

Thanks for the link. I'll have to read this later. I happened to sit in on a small talk he gave while in Seattle. I am curious to see how his research has evolved. To keep things positive, I won't comment on how his research was presented at that time.

 

[jda123]

If only anybody cared about keeping porites. Why not use blue tort, blue or pink mille or something that people would care about instead of a shallow water SPS without strict lighting demads that you can probably keep alive under a 120W incandescent daylight bulb?

This study seems about as useful to me as the one where it was determined that using carbon contributes to HLLE even though the study used Acanthurus Bahianus which nearly nobody keeps in captivity because they get too stressed out die while feeding them a cr@ppy diet the whole time.

 

[zombie]

If only anybody cared about keeping porites. Why not use blue tort, blue or pink mille or something that people would care about instead of a shallow water SPS without strict lighting demads that you can probably keep alive under a 120W incandescent daylight bulb?

This study seems about as useful to me as the one where it was determined that using carbon contributes to HLLE even though the study used Acanthurus Bahianus which nearly nobody keeps in captivity because they get too stressed out die while feeding them a cr@ppy diet the whole time.

Torts and milles grow too slow to get solid data in a short timeframe, but perhaps montipora digitata or capricornis would have been a much better choice.

 

[sethsolomon]

I am with Doug on this one. I have a brown porites in my sump growing under a 100w equiv. cree light bulb.

This experiment needs to be recreated for the long term with several varieties of SPS and several different lights. I would say a 6 month period would be about right.