WWC vs AB+ spectrum: Results on Coral Colors and Growth

Results of switching from AB+ to WWC spectrum on SPS color and growth .

[@adamkwek5888]

Awesome experiment, hope to see more this type of videos ... keep going !😊

[@TheBioReef]

thanks Adam. Would appreciate a sub if you haven't already joined the channel.

[@eddyortiz8110]

Lot's of growth all around is what I noticed right away, tank looks beautiful 💜🐠💜🌿

[@TheBioReef]

Thanks Eddy - yeah, the growth really pop'ed out... usually i only see noticeable difference when looking at pics a few month a part, but it was really obviously here

[@ismackherbiehind]

Very nice SPS. I would imagine the more time the better to really see the difference.

[@TheBioReef]

good point... perhaps i should keep it like this for another month ?

[@ismackherbiehind]

@@TheBioReef I would agree :)

[@NN-lo3vg]

Your tank is stunningly gorgeous! I’ve learnt a lot from your channel! So illuminating and inspiring! Is ultraviolet light a must for the sps corals?

[@TheBioReef]

It stimulates the production of green fluorescent proteins. Not sure if it is truly essentially but certainly helps with colors i think

[@Mindboggle100]

Great tank, such lovely SPS! What media/ chemical do you use , or recommend to lower Nitrates? I need to drop them, after dosing the to help counter Dinoflagalletes, after hiting zero! Thanks, always learn from you 🙂

[@TheBioReef]

Thanks! No media (other than a tiny bag of carbon in the sump that I rarely change). I do about a ml of aminos on M W F. I like my nitrates around 2 to 5 ppm. Never had the need to lower them. Actually it’s the opposite in my tank. I run a fuge with Chaeto

[@inventoryking]

Hey, I just watched your Trident setup video. Are you still using it? Have you been able to dial it in to be close to your salinity tests for cal a s mag? And Hanna for alk? I am setting mine up and I can use some tips, please.

[@TheBioReef]

Yep! I wouldn’t worry too much about have it match the old test kits. There will always be slight variation between them because of the different reagents involved. So I just used the info from the trident as the bench mark and I tried to make the chosen level consistent

[@strike2867]

Sorry about your tank. I've been trying to find a link to the WWC spectrum and photoperiod details, but no luck. Do you have a link to it?

[@TheBioReef]

Link was in a brs video, which I don’t have a link for handy. But essentially, program your lights for ab+ and then divide thr 18.5k plateau in half and remove all non blue /uv channels out

[@strike2867]

@@TheBioReef thank you. I found their programs on their site, but don't have a radion so can't see the actual settings. I've also called them. I've ended up just shortening my white photoperiod. Playing around with it, so far an uptake in calcium. Corals still growing.

[@patsorsox]

It’s not just half the day ab+ and the balance all blue. Their whiter part of the program has higher whites than ab% and different % of red & green than ab+. Then yea it does all go blue. It’s worth noting they also do not adjust the power to compensate for the higher white period. So during that time the par is slightly higher

[@MKEW2002]

Your growth is amazing for just the month plus. Can you run your entire setup and maintenance routine?

[@TheBioReef]

Thanks! - my entire step and maintenance routine can be found here in my 5 year video . thanks for watching! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpuocp-Ph8mMr80

[@marcussreef]

What I am curious about is did your alk consumption increase or stay the same for the most part?

[@TheBioReef]

Hi Marcus - Alas - DOS only keeps detailed dosing records for a month, but certainly i did notice consumption creep up a bit. Nothing quantitive, but last week, i averaged about 35.9 ml per day. Hard to know if this was the light change or just regular growth, which is why i am going to actually measure the growth rate of a few frags with the WWC spectrum, then AB+ spectrum. Thanks for watching, and please sub if you haven't already done so. cheers

[@reefpassion6364]

Your corals are awesome man, rhey are growing like crazy, try to meassure the iron levels, maybe that's why your miyagi tort doesn't have so much green. Really nive video, whatching your videos from Spain.

[@TheBioReef]

thanks Reef Passion - yes perhaps i need to do an ICP test... haven't done one in a while! thanks for watching

[@enderslee]

May I ask how do you take care of the trace elements,thanks!

[@TheBioReef]

i don't. I don't like dosing things that i can test.

[@jluusaltwateraquarium8320]

Thanks for sharing fantastic video sir....Is A/B is that true makings a Acropora corals looking beautiful and healthy

[@TheBioReef]

AB is solid!

[@jluusaltwateraquarium8320]

I just updated my new tank in my KZbin channel... please help me out what I need make my Acropora corals grow better and healthy... Thanks

[@sunnygoold9449]

Amazing.... Yeah I think some corals will do better under more blues. Jason Fox runs mostly all blue from what I have seen so not surprised about the Fox Flame - I also think it's from a little bit deeper. Wait - you are going to cut 2 frags and immediately see how they do for 2 weeks under 1 lighting and 2 weeks under another? I would think they won't do anything 2 weeks after being cut. I would cut them - leave the lighting for 2 weeks - then measure them - then measure 2 weeks later and change the lights and measure 2 weeks after that.

[@TheBioReef]

Thanks Sunny.

[@deiniou]

It might be a bit late, but you can try and use Photoshop to align the pictures automatically, and so it would be easier to compare the two!

[@prdnblk]

What program are you running for your mp40

[@kovenantsreeftank1317]

Can you show us the setting of your XR 15 and the time frame you run the lights?

[@TheBioReef]

You can see how the lights are setup here kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6q5gpJ9nNVmnq8

[@flytech80]

How many hour u run ab+ thanks

[@mariorossi1316]

Hi amro your thank are top You use active carbon?

[@TheBioReef]

I do have a tiny little bag of seachem carbon in the sump but it is rarely changed, so I am not sure if it does anything operationally

[@mariorossi1316]

@@TheBioReef thank you so much👍👍

[@holgerkoob9339]

What is your pointintensity at These two Programs?

[@TheBioReef]

For the AB+, all the points is at 100% and the overall intensity is at 81%. For the WWC, all the blues and UV are at 100%, whites, reds and greens are 0%, and overall intensity is at 81%

[@brantlitwiler8612]

Is hard to maintain ur Alk and calcium with the two part dosing?That little Ferrari,nice.

[@TheBioReef]

Thanks! So far so good with 2 part dosing. I have the trident and apex dos so I am setting dosing based on my daily alkalinity readings

[@tomg5405]

Did you continued to run it or not? You should try to run the sanjay set up all channel to 100%

[@TheBioReef]

Hi Tom - i am doing my final pics this weekend... stay tuned for the before, after and back again pics.

[@tomg5405]

@@TheBioReef great :-)

[@garrycole9187]

I don't see your links?

[@TheBioReef]

sorry Garry - not sure which links do you mean: I talked about the aminos vid here kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaHHYmN_pJeqr8U and the algae / herbivores vid here kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWmWdGWQaZJ_gck

[@TheIneption]

my comment may come across a little offensive and in some way described as a form of attack to all the hard work you have put in .With that being said i have been a long time subscriber and believe it or not first time watched your video on a big screen full resolution and i must say you can pull a lot more colour out of your acros compared to what you have atm. I would def say that par levels if bumped to 400 to 450 ish along with your No3 to 10 to 20 you might just end up pulling a lot better colours from you sps. Reason i say this is because i have a lot of the acros you keep and even under whites they look so much more colourful. There only one caveat if you white balance and camera isn't on par then possibly why i am seeing a lot less colour. Just my 2 cents

[@TheBioReef]

Thanks Reefsome. Always appreciate feedback. Would love to see pics of your tank and sps corals - are you insta, KZbin or one of the reefing forums… post up a link if you can

[@HoroHigh369]

I use the all blues and violets with 1% white light. Jason Fox uses nothing but blues in his coral farm. Ever since following that I have seen amazing growth and color.

[@TheBioReef]

yeah i wonder if i should add a full blue experiment as well. The only thing - i really like the look of traditional 18.5K sps aB+ - just for viewing... the all blue look kinda hurts my eyes after a while....

[@adamkwek5888]

Ya ..Jason fox coral colors really amazing especially the Walt Disney & homewacker in this reef builders video . Really don't know how he do it ,amazing

[@Joshthereefer]

Jason Fox uses blue t5, which are vastly different from LED. Even though it looks blue to the eye, there is still plenty of ‘white’ light in the spectrum. LED lacks this.

[@adamkwek5888]

@@Joshthereefer awesome explanation that I totally agree...👏😁

[@kwajrod]

Do your wrasses harass or eat your snails?

[@TheBioReef]

i only have the yellow tail tamarin wrasse in there right now, and she is a model citizen. Previously, i've had several leopard wrasses, several flasher wrasses and pencil tail fairy wrasse and all got along well with the cuc

[@erikreagan2339]

A month is nowhere neer enough time for anything to change it will take like six months. And the only way to really compare you would need all the corals x2 with one under ab+ and the other under wwc or one coral like you are saying but they have to be going at the same time because there are so many other factors that will change in your tank from month to month your water changes my have a little more sat from time to time flow will change because they will get clogged just a little bit all kinds of things that is going to be different from month to month and flow will definitely change the growth maybe more than light from month to month.

[@TheBioReef]

Hi Erik. Thanks for your feedback. I know 30 days seems to be too short, but it is actually based on scientific papers showing that corals can quickly respond to changes in light spectrum by synthesizing photopigments; have a look at my coral colors video which reviews some of the interesting experiments on this; you can see that corals can change colors within days to a one or two weeks. I agree that this is not a controlled experiment. But o think going from ab+ to wwc to ab+ will help disentangle the effect of time from light spectrum. Thanks for watching kzbin.info/www/bejne/babPnneloaagbtU than

[@opethmike]

My Walt Disney took aaaaaaaagggggeeeeeeessss to get going; but once it does it goes fast.

[@TheBioReef]

i know... it looks like a very sad $200 bill right now :)

[@darksidereefer]

Don't think the time period is enough to see changes in color. People cook corals for months to get coloration. I think to get a true answer you should run the lights for 6 months. This way your corals adjust to the change, then you may some colors brighten up.

[@darksidereefer]

Tank does look awesome though.

[@TheBioReef]

Thanks Christopher. I know 30 days seems to be too short, but it is actually based on scientific papers showing that corals can quickly respond to changes in light spectrum by synthesizing photopigments; have a look at my coral colors video which reviews some of the interesting experiments on this; you can see that corals can change colors within days to a one or two weeks. thanks for watching, and would greatly appreciate a sub! kzbin.info/www/bejne/babPnneloaagbtU than

[@Brabostaan]

I thnk its easier to look at alk uptake.

[@TheBioReef]

that sounds like a good idea, but how do you disentangle higher alk uptake because of light change from higher alk uptake because the tank is getting older and corals are getting bigger

[@Brabostaan]

@@TheBioReef good question, I think the alk uptake "kicks in" instead of gradually going up. But doing the experiment in 1 tank cut and weight might be better.