Sam11909

I've also been seeing great growth with my own LED's, particularly a Derasa clam has shown a lot of growth in the month and a half that I've had it. But I've also seen the colors really fade out on a few pieces. The Derasa's colors have come back nicely, as has one acro frag, but everything is is really washed out now. Particularly my almost transparent, but growing like mad, frogspawn.

I'm not sure yet if it's because they are taking so long to adapt to the LED's, or if it's because of the EcoBak pellets I'm running.

-Hans

Some of my acros got a little bleached at first, but they recovered nicely and have good color. They are probably just adapting to the intensity of the LED's, but that's just my opinion.

The fading in colors could be due to not getting a wide enough spectrum that you need out of your LEDs. There is a big post on nano-reef.com in the lighting forum about this, and people are trying out different color LEDs (like cyan, neutral white, cool blue, regular blue, red, and even uv) in order to bring certain coral colors back. May want to do a site search and check it out, since i'm not sure about the rules about linking on this site.

I read through that thread when I was setting up the LED's, great thread. I have 1 cyan, 2 neutral white, 2 cool white, and 4 royal blue. Colors seem to be good, the red planet actually looks better than when it was under MH IMO. I'm going to be experimenting with some of the other different color LED's when I light my 55g.