Yellow scroll coral

I am wondering where the best placement for a yellow scroll coral would be? If I remember right I think he had it about 1/2-3/4 down in his tank which is about where I have it. Although he had halides and I have LED.

Ok cool. Weird thing is under the LED it is just a brown color with green highlights, kind of a bummer:( I love my LED's for the pop in my zoas but when it comes to other stuff I am just disappointed:(

Yea I am really annoyed right now lol. I am almost about ready to go back to halide or t5

My LED are white and blue do you think if I got a dual t5 fixture and added it to it with purple plus bulbs I would get better yellows? It's weird because the yellows in my zoas pop just not in this scroll coral:(

Things are happy they are Cree blues and cool whites.

CapnMorgan wrote: I think some purple will help a lot. My purple plus bulbs really make the reds, pinks, oranges, etc pop. While the blues make the greens and yellows light up. Then a couple "whites" thrown in to balance out the color. It has always worked really well for me.

+1

Personally with any sps I would go with metal halide w/ supplemental actinic until LED technology is improved. If halides are an option for you that's the way to go in my opinion.

I had a yellow scroll under just LEDs for a long time and it was a really cool, it got to big so I sold it, but it did just fine under my LEDs.   When I first switched from MH and T5s to LEDs I bleached 80% of my coral. Now, everything new I get goes into the sand bed or a shaded area to acclimate to all the light.

I had a hard time keeping red colors under just LEDs so I added two T5s. A Blue plus and a Purple plus. My LEDs are so strong that that you can't even tell when the T5s are on or not but my reds have improved since I got the T5s.

Unfortunately my spike in phosphates the other day killed almost all my sps, I had to frag this beautiful large scroll and only have a bout 3 pieces that survived from the whole coral.

Your missing the royal blues. I get really good pop with yellows but I have the quaillumination with the royal blue. I think adding a few 450nm leds or attinic t5s would fix your problem.  Also going from halide to led is a jump in par levels, and your corals need to adjust to the higher par of a led lighting system. all my sps faded pretty bad when i switched and now i have color almost back and then some. I would say if it was half way down on a halide system I would put in at the bottom of your tank and slowly move it up over a few months.

Edited by laynframe - August 19 2011 at 10:41am