Who else is blind as a bat but wants to enjoy their corals under blue lights. A little funny pic to start the day.
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Reefing and Glasses
- Thread starter BiGGiePauls33
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It's one of the things that makes this Hobby, and life in general, so interesting. We're all different and like different things. For the record I'm with you I'm not a big fan of blue lights other than it's a fun way to show the corals as the lights are shutting down for the night or starting up in the morning. I see myself more as an ecosystem refer as opposed to a coral collector. I like to create something that looks like the reef with an extra shot of blue
Those glasses are dope.
About the blue/white balance.. here’s a question:
It’s clear from the science that zoozanthelle can adsorb light across the spectrum, but when my corals started bleaching (especially the monis), why does blue-only seem to help? When I start to ramp up the whites, the bleaching starts again. Any thoughts?
About the blue/white balance.. here’s a question:
It’s clear from the science that zoozanthelle can adsorb light across the spectrum, but when my corals started bleaching (especially the monis), why does blue-only seem to help? When I start to ramp up the whites, the bleaching starts again. Any thoughts?
Do you reduce blue as you add white? Hypothetically if your corals are at 200 par and you increase it to 300 fast they will bleach. So as you add white take out blue to keep the par from fluctuating too much
Good point. I wasn’t because I was also hoping to increase PAR back up to 160 or so. I don’t know what I’m at but it’s got to be low- maybe 60 on the sand bed, 85 mid-mid.
Anyway.. I’ll try that. Thanks
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There's definitely a contingent that goes so heavy on the blue that their tanks look to me like 3D versions of 1980s black light posters. Different strokes, I guess. It reminds me of when HDR photography started to become popular. Some people used the technology to enhance and highlight natural colors and contrasts while others went so heavy on the saturation and color vibrancy that their photos looked like metallic paintings rather than actual photos of real places. I skew towards the more "natural" look, but I do enjoy how my coral looks under the moon lights as my cycle is winding down for the evening - I've seen fluorescence in nature, but nothing to the extent that I see in my tank during the last hour or so before the lights go off. But I still don't want it to look like black light night at the local bowling alley.
I like to call the "blue light thing" the Disney electric light parade. Yes, I'm not particularly a fan. Yes, when you dive red light is the first to get filtered out and things look a bit more blue, but nothing like the lights I see people using. My eyes actually start to feel weird after looking at such blue light for a while. Not sure it's a good thing for humans.
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Here's a picture straight out of the Google Pixel 6 Pro without a filter lens. 8 bulb ATI fixture with about a 12-14 kelvin look.
