Can corals use green? I know plants don’t really. But that makes sense Dong, why create more disco when white does the jobThe white led produces a lot of green.
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https://reefbuilders.com/2010/04/06/green-light-fluorescence-red/Can corals use green? I know plants don’t really. But that makes sense Dong, why create more disco when white does the job
https://reefbuilders.com/2010/04/06/green-light-fluorescence-red/Can corals use green? I know plants don’t really. But that makes sense Dong, why create more disco when white does the job
My understanding is UV is not something we can see. So anything that claims Uv is just down to the bottom of the violet spectrum. I also remember hearing uv damaged coral tissue as well and the zooxanthellae don’t really process it as it doesn’t penetrate deep in the water column naturally. Let me go find an info graphic
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Looks like I was wrong. Looks like it would penetrate for some corals. It is strange to me that the violet spectrum closer to 400nm decreases rapidly in depth and yet uv jumps back down to 50m.
Another interesting thing is the green penetration. I am not sure why I don’t see more green in reef lighting. I know the zooxanthellae produce energy with different clorophylls, but they are not all green so that should mean they absorb that spectrum too right?
Oops!That chart says it’s for Lake Superior??? I think the light penetration might be different in a reef were the water is a little cleaner lol.
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Oops!That chart says it’s for Lake Superior??? I think the light penetration might be different in a reef were the water is a little cleaner lol.
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On the flip side ocean water has salt so that may also affect penetration. Well t was about the same for the other graphs I saw so mustn’t be that far off. Great pics btw! You should set up a booth at fragtastic show!
No problem, I remembered the article being about green light. Be neat to have a few different tanks with the same corals with different spectrums and see what happensNice read. So not for survival but for red orange yellow color intensity. Thanks Josh!