"Favorite" mode on the Sky fixture

melev — Wed, 19 May 2021 21:12:39 +0000

I have a few handy profiles to select from when I quickly want a certain look.

melev Thu, 05/20/2021 - 00:12

My 400g has been converted from Metal Halide lighting to all LED lighting. I installed three SKY fixtures over my reef three weeks ago. Today's blog is about quick photography of the reef without having to use a orange gel filter.

By switching my reef to Favorite, I have the four channels set to these percentages:

The tank looks like daylight in this configuration, heavily leaning into the yellows. However, I still have my XHOs turned on as well, that add a crisp blue into the mix. This combination is what you see in the image at the top of this blog. The reef looks like this:

This picture was taken with an iPhone 12, and I didn't use a filter of any kind.

When I switched the Skys back to their normally scheduled programming, this is what the reef looks like with the same iPhone camera:

Could I have just put the Polyp Labs Coral View lens on my phone to take the picture? Yup! But I wanted to use the feature that I'd programmed, and it took a couple of seconds to set the tank to the ideal look. Could I have dialed in the blues better in the Sky to not need the XHOs? Probably. But I own both, so this is simply an example of what I did today to share with you.

I'll post a few top down images of the reef in my next blog. Happy reefing!

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Video: Installing XHO lighting over my reef

melev — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 09:20:17 +0000

Video: Installing XHO lighting over my reef melev Fri, 03/03/2017 - 12:20

I replaced the VHO Super Actinics over my reef at last: These are XHO LEDs from ReefBrite, and do they ever deliver. The former bulbs were installed high above my tank, and my concern was "could XHOs provide enough light from that same installed spot?" I'm happy to say yes, and then some. Some corals down the sandbed have begun to get their former color back, something I didn't think was ever going to happen.

These are 72" fixtures, and they were pretty easy to install. Today, I got a visit by Tullio Dellaquila and grabbed him for a quick interview to include in this video. He shares some pretty good knowledge.

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"Favorite" mode on the Sky fixture

Video: Installing XHO lighting over my reef