Light hues and intensity on fish?

[mistahoo]

There's a bunch of colors that I've seen being used to bring out the color of fish. I was wondering if red lights bring out red colors? Same with blue, green, yellow, etc?

Never messed with the idea but the fish has red fins, a black dot, and is silver with a slight tint of yellow. I'd like to make the yellow tint pop out more.

[johnnymisty]

I dunno but id like to find that out myself make the reds on my ndoles pop more gonna have to research a lil bit on it

[LordBarron7692]

I don't know I think its more in how we see the fish under the lights rather than the fish itself but I could be wrong not a scientist

[Andrew_B]

8000k brings out reds/oranges, 6500k (cool white) i've noticed brings out yellows. 50/50 bulbs are great for greens/blues. I know they make full spectrum bulbs, but not experienced with them

[mistahoo]

Re: Light hues and intensity on fish?

I haven't researched it yet as it was just a thought that came up while I was thinking of how I wanted my canopy to be

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[mistahoo]

Re: Light hues and intensity on fish?

8000k brings out reds/oranges, 6500k (cool white) i've noticed brings out yellows. 50/50 bulbs are great for greens/blues. I know they make full spectrum bulbs, but not experienced with them

I've heard about those full spectrum bulbs as well. I thought cool white was 10,000k? Thanks for something to start with

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[TexSun]

Ah, fun with the light spectrum!

[allysangels]

found something cool for ya..

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/media/PDF/ColorSpectrumGuideFW.pdf

[SunnyHouTX]

Re: Light hues and intensity on fish?

The ColorMax bulb is amazing for reds

[eklikewhoa]

Full spectrum is the way to go...

Cool whites and natural white combo helps the reds/oranges paired with the 8000k.

50/50 just washes out everything IMO.

[swk]

As far as I know from my experiences with reptiles, full spectrum bulbs are simply a replica of natural sunlight, which is between, 5500-6500K.

all the other bulbs in the cooler temp ranges, 6700 and up, reproduce the sunlight as it appears at depth under water

[mistahoo]

Re: Light hues and intensity on fish?

Sounds like everyone is in favor of full spectrum bulbs. How would that look with 3w LEDs? Would the LEDs overpower it or vice-versa?

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[SunnyHouTX]

Re: Light hues and intensity on fish?

I don't favor full spectrum

[eklikewhoa]

My mention of full spectrum is through compiling of different spectrum bulbs/LEDs

I'm not sure what this other full spectrum is.

[mistahoo]

Gonna go with MH 8,000k bulbs and see how that turns out. As for full spectrum, Ek was referring to using different kinds of color bulbs/leds to get a full spectrum of colors.