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Bridget
I recently became the owner of the Pacific Sun Hyperion R2 light fixture. This fixture has a lighting program called Bali. The data for this program is taken directly from the natural conditions of coral reef habitats. I am adding a photo of the graph regarding time and power. Until now, I had been lighting my aquarium with three types of fluorescent lamps: white, blue, and red. The lighting sequence was: Morning blue, Day blue, white, red, Evening blue. I may be mistaken, but I still trust the developers of the Bali program, and based on that, the fluorescent lighting should look like this: Morning red, Day blue, white, red, Evening red. The ratio of the lamps should be approximately 45% red, 20% white, and 35% blue; this is just a rough estimate based on the graph, and I might be wrong. So, for a fixture with 6 x 54 watts that I used before, the lamp arrangement should look like this: three red, one white, and two blue. However, for some reason, the standard recommendations always favor blue light, while red is considered secondary. Perhaps it is necessary to add more red spectrum to the aquarium lighting, or not? If we look at the graph, ultraviolet, orange, and red dominate throughout the day, with white not even reaching its 100% value, and blue appearing as a parabola on the graph. I would like to hear your opinion on this matter.
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