I don’t understand my Red Sea 160s lights

[Phoerut]

I’ve just upgraded from my fluval nano 52 litre to a Red Sea reefer 170 litre. I got all the gear in a bundle second hand.
I’m still cycling the new tank currently. I downloaded the reef beat app and it’s so confusing. I’m still quite a noob, the info and videos I watch I also find very confusing. I don’t have a clue how to use them. All I know is they are so freaking bright you can see my room glow from the other end of my street!

someone please help me! I only have softies and fish. That’s all I want at the moment.

 

[Swiss Frag Reefer]

@Phoerut That is actually quite a large light for that small tank. I probably would start with around 40-50%Blue and the white part is only for your preference of the overall look mostly.

Or do you have a general question how to connect the light with the app? => you would have to start the wizard on the app, then select the ReefLed160s as wifi in your general settings on your iPhone/Android, the password is as mention in the app : password (that could be the most confusing part)

If you do not use the app the light runs on 100% (which is quite a lot)

Also send maybe a picture of your light since they usually come with a deflector (to reduce the light spread) since you got them second hand that thing might be missing.

 

[Tim'sReef]

I had a reefled 50 but it basically is the same just smaller. I just used one of the presets that are in the app and turned the channels down to about 60% of their original value to start, and changed the time so I had a little more time in the evenings.

Best is to get a par meter from somewhere and take some measurements in the tank. I did it in steps of 10% and noted them down so when I need to turn them up I roughly know what I an doing.

One tip the uv or night spectrum can burn corals very vast in my experience when turned up too much. Although I don't expect softies to that something to take into mind.

 

[Phoerut]

It seems like a big light for the tank I have to agree. I feel like I’m going to burn all my corals. It makes the nano look dark! I’ll run it on 40% as Swiss frag reefer suggested (Thankyou!).

i don’t even know what the UV / night spectrum is!! My nano had one setting, on and off lol. I like the idea of a PAR meter. Can you just explain that a little more for me please? I’m a complete newbie when it comes to lights and coral.

I’m all about the fish normally planning to take the plunge into coral now I’ve got better equipment but it’s complicated!!

 

[Tim'sReef]

It seems like a big light for the tank I have to agree. I feel like I’m going to burn all my corals. It makes the nano look dark! I’ll run it on 40% as Swiss frag reefer suggested (Thankyou!).

i don’t even know what the UV / night spectrum is!! My nano had one setting, on and off lol. I like the idea of a PAR meter. Can you just explain that a little more for me please? I’m a complete newbie when it comes to lights and coral.

I’m all about the fish normally planning to take the plunge into coral now I’ve got better equipment but it’s complicated!!

Sure a par meter is a device you can measure the amount of light the bulbs/led emit. They are expensive but most LFS will rent it to you.

If you have the par meter put your lights at 100% and measure different places in your tank and the rocks, make an excel sheet where you note the intensity and the par levels at the different places then move the lights 10% down and repeat. This will give you a nice table on where in your tank different types of coral can be places.

I always ask my LFS on what par level the frag I'm buying is. When I take ik home I try to place it with somewhat similar flow and par to give it the easiest acclimation to my tank.

As for the uv channel it is the purple one al the way to the right if I'm correct. I have never had it on more than 15% but most of the time it ramps up and down to that level from 0%