Too much blue?

Is it possible to over due the blue lights and go less with the white? Just don't understand how the whole lighting themes go

 

Blue and actinic lighting make colors come out best but do little for growth the more actinic there is. White light is better for growth but bad for color the redder the color gets.

So it really depends on what you are looking for.

 

Well you prob noticed I wont the ugly sweater contest so I am receiving one blue/white, one blue, and one blue/magenta pro modules from ecoxotic. very honored to have won that contest!

Anywayss I am just trying to figure out how I am going to hang or mount these lights as well as figuring out what light scheme works best.

Had also posted about leaving on the blue's only dimmed low as a moonlight

 

Moonlights are not necessary for the health of the tank. Congrats on the win they should do fine for growth and color.

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you like blue, blue is fine. The issues isn't so much that it won't grow corals, it's that it takes more energy to produce blue light. So, you generally get higher PAR with the same wattage with lower kelvin ratings than higher K ratings. I think most corals will tend to use blue more efficiently though, so, my guess is, in reality, it probably evens out. However, there probably are some corals that won't do as well under blue light and vice versa..

 

Just read a post of a guy who said his mandarin goby swan into his carpet anemone when his moon lights went out and his tank was too dark for the fish to see(funny but sad)

I will post some pictures next week once I get the lights installed and playing with the dimmers

 

I have typicall kept tanks without moonlights. Occasionally I'll use them, but I currently have two without and both have mandarins and multiple nems. I'd guess that more likely if it was related to the moonlights, it was a startle response or something. I don't think it is the norm, nor am I convinced that a fish could even necessarily see better with dim moonlights. Certainly keeping nems in a reef is risky though.

 

Im glad I saw this post!!!

For a moon light I bought a Magenta/Royal Blue Stunner, I have no idea how it will look but can't wait.

 

first when they started with actinic lights they were solely to accent the real coral growing fixture, but now they have some actinics with some real coral growing power, i have 12 watts or so of actinics over my tank and only 6 watts of white led's over my tank and my corals do great.

 

Some corals like the blue and others don't. Before I added my blue LED strip to my tank (not only for moonlighting but to accent the PC's too) I noticed that my anthelia and zoas weren't growing very fast. But after I added the strip they are taking off like no tomorrow! In a matter of about a week and a half I noticed roughly 15 new polyps on my anthelia and too many new ones to count on my zoas! All other corals seem to be growing at roughly the same pace as before. I know there isn't a NEED for moonlights but I really like having the moonlighting that way i can watch all the critters that usually only come out at night. Then when it's time for me to go to bed I turn all lighting off, then the moonlights kick back on early in the morning at about 6am and then my PC's kick on at 9am. I find that even when just the moonlights kick on the corals start to wake up, so the moonlights simulate sunrise and sunset in a way. Or at least thats what it seems to me. I love having moonlights mainly to watch things at night and the corals look super cool!!!