I was sure I wanted to go reef breeders 32" photon series after reading lots of good things but am confused by one thing the whites channel on the reef breeders seems more FW than SW. Specs for the photon 32" list the white channel as 22 4500K neutral whites, seem like warm whites to me when talking marine. I would expect lots of bad algae growth with that spectrum of white. The rest of the channel 10 480nm blues, 4 660nm reds, and 12 410-420nm violets. looks good but why the neutral only for whites?
Ocean revive OR-IT2080 (32") has a white channel like I would expect to see to grow corals with Neutral White 7500K 12pcs and Cool White 12000K 24pcs for a total of 36 whites in the higher color spectrum.
I have two ocean revive OR-IT2040's already and looking to add one 32" light to cover my 180 gallon 72" tank and while they both look exactly the same their LED colors are definitely different. The current OR-IT2040 have Neutral White 7500K 6pcs
I almost think some algae growth would be good as I have a tomini tang and a lawnmower Blenny that are always grazing and I really have no algae to speak of but not wanting to grow nuisance algae either.
Thoughts experience would be appreciated. I am leaning towards reef breeders because I like the mix of the other LEDS but am concerned with all those 4500K whites. I am also more of a softies/LPS kinda guy with hammers torch's frogspawn toadstools as my favorites with a wish list of some other softies like duncans but I have some montipora and a birds nest that seem to be doing good and I might want to add some more soon too with a couple caps and an elegance coral or two as my next adds. Oh yeah and I have an RBTA that is doing real good under the Ocean Revive right now too.
Ocean revive OR-IT2080 (32") has a white channel like I would expect to see to grow corals with Neutral White 7500K 12pcs and Cool White 12000K 24pcs for a total of 36 whites in the higher color spectrum.
I have two ocean revive OR-IT2040's already and looking to add one 32" light to cover my 180 gallon 72" tank and while they both look exactly the same their LED colors are definitely different. The current OR-IT2040 have Neutral White 7500K 6pcs
I almost think some algae growth would be good as I have a tomini tang and a lawnmower Blenny that are always grazing and I really have no algae to speak of but not wanting to grow nuisance algae either.
Thoughts experience would be appreciated. I am leaning towards reef breeders because I like the mix of the other LEDS but am concerned with all those 4500K whites. I am also more of a softies/LPS kinda guy with hammers torch's frogspawn toadstools as my favorites with a wish list of some other softies like duncans but I have some montipora and a birds nest that seem to be doing good and I might want to add some more soon too with a couple caps and an elegance coral or two as my next adds. Oh yeah and I have an RBTA that is doing real good under the Ocean Revive right now too.