Davidwissman85 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Okay, I have a locally made LED, from Portland, Oregon called a Reefstar S80 over my Coralife Biocube29, keeping lps, sps mushrooms and zoas. ( I focus mainly on zoas ) Specs: 110-220v input 70-80w output Leds: 24x3 (bridgelux/epistar/epiled) Spectrum: whites, blue, royal blue, red, cyan, UV, violet Light dimensions: 9.5x8x2 Cycle: 10.5-11 hours, some percentages may be lower on different channels, but this is basically the average. 0600 0% 0745 15% 1000 25% 1300 60% 1400 45% 1630 25% 1645 15% 1700 0% Link to comment
evilc66 Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Does it work for you? If yes, then why ask us? If no, then you need to be more specific on what your problems are. I find that too many people get their panties in a twist over this for no good reason. The critical things here is an appropriate light cycle length, enough intensity, and consistency. You meet all that criteria (seemingly, though I haven't seen your tank and how the corals are doing). Link to comment
Davidwissman85 Posted February 4, 2016 Author Share Posted February 4, 2016 The question was just that, my panties are in no wad, and I've looked through the forum on found little on actual peoples cycle. I get that it will vary, but, my question is am I at least in the ballpark of average, to me it seems dim, but I also know you can't use these things on 100%. I did not mean to anger you, just looking for small open ended tips, not exact specs for my tank. Some people like using more blue, etc. Link to comment
EquinsuOcha Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 What would be an Idea light cycle length? I did some googling... perhaps I am dumb to think this. But I took of the only reef system I know about off the top of my head and took its light schedule. I change it every now and then based on whats happening there. www.timeanddate.com www.thetimenow.com twilight starts 450am - 5% light from LED daylight starts 607am - 45% light from LED daylight ends 655pm - 45% light from LED twilight ends 811pm - 5% light from LED moon light start from twilight end 812pm - maintain 5% but drop all white moon light end from twilight start 449am - maintain 5% but drop all white during moon light Purple LEDs are active at 100% from twilight start to daylight start and vice versa it gradually ramps to the 45% and then 45 to 5%... perhaps this is silly as I have no corals yet BUT its realistic in my eyes. Link to comment
Davidwissman85 Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 What would be an Idea light cycle length? I did some googling... perhaps I am dumb to think this. But I took of the only reef system I know about off the top of my head and took its light schedule. I change it every now and then based on whats happening there. www.timeanddate.com twilight starts 450am - 5% light from LED daylight starts 607am - 45% light from LED daylight ends 655pm - 45% light from LED twilight ends 811pm - 5% light from LED moon light start from twilight end 812pm - maintain 5% but drop all white moon light end from twilight start 449am - maintain 5% but drop all white during moon light Purple LEDs are active at 100% from twilight start to daylight start and vice versa it gradually ramps to the 45% and then 45 to 5%... perhaps this is silly as I have no corals yet BUT its realistic in my eyes. Yea I've thought about actinic or purple on in place of pitch black all off. But oddly even mine at 1% is a lot of light, but in nature the water is never really black out, its damn close but not black out. Also, I will put up some of my pictures tomorrow, and try to update it to see if there's a change.. Honestly I think I was using way to much light power as I just got around to programing the controller fully, and it was on a 0-100-0% 12 hour cycle.... My BOP is looking crappy, and that thing should be colorful as hell. Mushrooms I have loved it, one spilt from one to three, and another split from one to two. Link to comment
Sancho Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 just keep this in mind..people have had successful reefs using halides and T5's for years. On 100% in the morning and off at night. Link to comment
EquinsuOcha Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 just keep this in mind..people have had successful reefs using halides and T5's for years. On 100% in the morning and off at night. I love the fact that my tank has its very own sunrise and sunset, and lunar phase. It brings that having a part of the ocean in your home even more so apparent. I do have to agree with you 100% back when I had my first tank in 2005-2009 no crashes I used only T5 100% on and 100% off no moons, on at 8am off at 9pm... no side effects. Link to comment
cruiZe Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I'll tag along for this. I have Rapid LEDs DCC-01 controller - set to D2 which is 45 min sunrise, 8.5 hour, 45 min sunset for 10 hours total. How did you decide on 60% max? I bleached my frogspawn pretty bad turning mine up... so over the past few months i've nursed it back to health and am only at 15% now- I don't want to do that again, but I want to turn it up. Link to comment
evilc66 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 The question was just that, my panties are in no wad, and I've looked through the forum on found little on actual peoples cycle. I get that it will vary, but, my question is am I at least in the ballpark of average, to me it seems dim, but I also know you can't use these things on 100%. I did not mean to anger you, just looking for small open ended tips, not exact specs for my tank. Some people like using more blue, etc. You didn't anger me, but light cycle questions come up all the time, and should be easy to find with a quick search and a little reading. The amount that you ramp up and down means nothing really, and is just for your viewing pleasure. All you really need to be concerned with is the overall photoperiod length, and the intensity. The only other thing you really need to be concerned with is intensity. and you don't need to have fancy equipment to see if you have enough. Your corals will tell you everything you need. If the corals are happy and not stretching or closed up/bleaching (too little and too much light respectively), then the intensity is about right. Don't use your eyes to judge whether it's intense enough, as they are terrible at estimating what is too much or too little. LEDs are particularly bad at this, as they don't have as much green spectrum as fluorescent or halide light sources, which is what your eyes are more sensitive to. Link to comment
Davidwissman85 Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 I'll tag along for this. I have Rapid LEDs DCC-01 controller - set to D2 which is 45 min sunrise, 8.5 hour, 45 min sunset for 10 hours total. How did you decide on 60% max? I bleached my frogspawn pretty bad turning mine up... so over the past few months i've nursed it back to health and am only at 15% now- I don't want to do that again, but I want to turn it up. So sadly I had mine near 100% for about a week and a half not even thinking, and just my birdnest bleached, I had a pink tip frogspaw frag that loved it though. As for 60, I may still turn it down to near 40ish Link to comment
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