Lighting Settings

D0ubt · Mar 24, 2021

Hi,
I am new to saltwater tanks, and am working on getting my lighting set up. I have a 36 gallon curved front saltwater tank. I attached a picture of the light settings I downloaded form the AI website, but I was hoping for some recommendations if this a good setting or if I should make changes. I have pretty easy coral to keep minus an sps, the rest are zoa's and xenya's, i apologize for misspellings.

Spare time · Mar 24, 2021

Could you specify the tank dimensions, how many lights you have, as well as the mounting height?

D0ubt · Mar 24, 2021

Hi there,
I have one AI Light I cut a hole out in the center of my tanks lid and made a mesh cover that the light rests on.
As for the tank dimensions they are
30.7 in L x 15.7 W x 22.2 H.
The light would probably sit roughly at 22.5 in H.

Dolphins18 · Mar 24, 2021

Hey there, check out this link. You can download presets that other people use, there are quite a few on there. Use this as a start, and adjust to your viewing pleasure from there. There should be instructions on how to do it as well.

Signature Series - AquaIllumination

www.aquaillumination.com

Essentially just find a few you like and click on them and hit download.
Personally I use more white, about 40-50% instead of 20.

D0ubt · Mar 24, 2021

D0ubt said:
Hi there,
I have one AI Light I cut a hole out in the center of my tanks lid and made a mesh cover that the light rests on.
As for the tank dimensions they are
30.7 in L x 15.7 W x 22.2 H.
The light would probably sit roughly at 22.5 in H.

I had a phosphate spike recently that’s why it’s a little cloudy at the moment. Working on getting that down. Here is a picture of the set up.

D0ubt · Mar 24, 2021

D0ubt said:
I had a phosphate spike recently that’s why it’s a little cloudy at the moment. Working on getting that down. Here is a picture of the set up.

mstoneman17 said:
Hey there, check out this link. You can download presets that other people use, there are quite a few on there. Use this as a start, and adjust to your viewing pleasure from there. There should be instructions on how to do it as well.

Signature Series - AquaIllumination

www.aquaillumination.com

Essentially just find a few you like and click on them and hit download.
Personally I use more white, about 40-50% instead of 20.

I love this site, my only concern is if the difference in tank size impacts the lighting settings at all.

Spare time · Mar 24, 2021

D0ubt said:
Hi there,
I have one AI Light I cut a hole out in the center of my tanks lid and made a mesh cover that the light rests on.
As for the tank dimensions they are
30.7 in L x 15.7 W x 22.2 H.
The light would probably sit roughly at 22.5 in H.

I will say that you want to be careful with the light mounted that close as the spread will decrease dramatically and directly under the light will be a par hotspot particularly in the upper half of the tank. If you can rent a par meter, I highly recommend it.

Regardless, making out V, RB, B and UV with whatever greena and white is appealing and little to no red will give you the strongest output (however don't have uv on max for a long period of time as for some reason it melts the lense.