New Water Fall Scrubber with Violet LED only

Ok, I will dial it back down. I was on 8 hours due to no growth in the middle, then when I seen it start to get brown I thought it was not enough light.

 

Hello,
Well I have some growth, I left it alone for 2 weeks, didnt even look at it LOL. I didnt dial it back either due to being lazy. Here are the picks of the first real cleaning. Also note I had a power outage for almost a full 24 hours in the middle of this growth period as well.

 

I would say its similar to the red blue combination. I think it took longer then I expected to get going. It needs a few more cleanings to see how its going to go. Its got more growth then I expected for a first cleaning so thats a good thing. With what I have seen so far I think (due to the slow start) I might need to add one red 660nm to each side possibly but time will tell. I am still hopefull that the all 420nm scrubber will work just fine.

 

Hello,
I didnt take it as rude at all. Long story short, short version. It seems blue has always improved the LED scrubber then, my violet test added to the red was even more of an improvement so the next logical test for me was all 420-ish nm LED. Maybe a crazy idea but I had to try it seeing Chlorophyll A peaks at about 429nm and Chl B peaks at about 455nm. I had better improvements adding 420 then 450 so I went 420.

 

No, this 3 decade old 150G tank started to seep out of a bottom seem. Not sure what or when we will be doing. I thought about putting it on the 40G to keep it going.