Hi everyone.
I've been building my little coral farm recently.
So, the idea was to use a real sunlight inside of the farm, therefore I built a glass roof above the coral pools.
Problem is that here where I live I couldn't find any kind of nice blue shading material to get more of blue colors in the coral pools (in order to imitate ocean depth for LPS section), so I am currently using a white shading fabric in entire object, which means that I am getting the full sunlight spectrum.
Now, I know that SPS and clams will be VERY happy in that environment, but what about LPS?
Info about this seems very scarce - some say real sunlight is the best for any kind of corals, some say that LPS might turn brown under the sunlight....
Of course, thanks to shading fabric PAR won't be over 200 during the part of the day when the sunlight is the strongest in LPS section of the farm, but what about full spectrum?
Can full spectrum really be bad for LPS as some say?
I will probably supplement blue light with some "XR30 Blue" LED later, but what in the meantime?
What does everyone think about this?
Is it the only way to know for sure to try and see? Or someone already have some experience with this?
I've been building my little coral farm recently.
So, the idea was to use a real sunlight inside of the farm, therefore I built a glass roof above the coral pools.
Problem is that here where I live I couldn't find any kind of nice blue shading material to get more of blue colors in the coral pools (in order to imitate ocean depth for LPS section), so I am currently using a white shading fabric in entire object, which means that I am getting the full sunlight spectrum.
Now, I know that SPS and clams will be VERY happy in that environment, but what about LPS?
Info about this seems very scarce - some say real sunlight is the best for any kind of corals, some say that LPS might turn brown under the sunlight....
Of course, thanks to shading fabric PAR won't be over 200 during the part of the day when the sunlight is the strongest in LPS section of the farm, but what about full spectrum?
Can full spectrum really be bad for LPS as some say?
I will probably supplement blue light with some "XR30 Blue" LED later, but what in the meantime?
What does everyone think about this?
Is it the only way to know for sure to try and see? Or someone already have some experience with this?
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