louis_last
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I have a Nicrew LED light from amazon that I've only just got around to adjusting the settings on after using it on factory default 24 hour mode for a while. It has red, green, blue and mostly white LEDs that are all adjustable in increments of 10%. The manual doesn't make it clear what colour temperature the white light is, it seems to imply that it can be either 5000k or 12000k with two buttons labelled as such but these maybe just automatically adjust the ratio of colours to achieve those temperatures?
Does anyone have any useful insight? I know that different plants have peak absorption at different points on the light spectrum and that bluer light is sometimes used for vegetative growth and redder light for flowering periods in other plants but I'm struggling with what the right ratios might be to set on this excessively adjustable light. I'm running white on 40% with two hours at 50% around mid day but I'm not certain how much red, blue and green to include if any at all. On the default 24 hour mode it seems to include more red in the morning and more blue in the evening but I think this is just an aesthetic thing and I'm only interested in what's best for the plants and fish. The photoperiod on the default 24 hour cycle is 16 hours too which is no good and at it's brightest it's powerful enough to bleach marimo balls very quickly so I need to get this thing dialled in.
The fanciest plants I have are some rare mosses and bucephalandra but they're all fine with pretty low light.
Would be grateful for any input.
Does anyone have any useful insight? I know that different plants have peak absorption at different points on the light spectrum and that bluer light is sometimes used for vegetative growth and redder light for flowering periods in other plants but I'm struggling with what the right ratios might be to set on this excessively adjustable light. I'm running white on 40% with two hours at 50% around mid day but I'm not certain how much red, blue and green to include if any at all. On the default 24 hour mode it seems to include more red in the morning and more blue in the evening but I think this is just an aesthetic thing and I'm only interested in what's best for the plants and fish. The photoperiod on the default 24 hour cycle is 16 hours too which is no good and at it's brightest it's powerful enough to bleach marimo balls very quickly so I need to get this thing dialled in.
The fanciest plants I have are some rare mosses and bucephalandra but they're all fine with pretty low light.
Would be grateful for any input.
