Every tank is different. Funny because I experienced the exact opposite of you with my acans. When I had LEDs all of my red acans turned orange. Many of them began to look the same. They did grow under LEDs but not as fast as they have under T5 lighting
See .. I like this guy response copied from another website. (even tho is long and funny.. but it has a good point)
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Okay I have debated this question for years now since LED came out and I decided to climb a mountain in Tibet to find the answer to the question, "Which is better, MH or LED?" Well I packed up the bags and flew to Tibet and searched for weeks until I finally found an old Tibetan man that told me which mountain that I had to climb to find the answers to such pressing questions. The next day I started the climb with my sherpa, Alfonso. Each of us had a 29 gallon tank and I carried the MH fixture and he carried the LED, the mule carried the MH ballast. We began our ascent in a fog, not only a fog on the mountain but in our heads about which fixture would work out the best. To make a short story we climbed for over two weeks in a constant fog and mist, falling rocks, glaciers, rivers that were empty one day and overflowing the next, just like someone's ATS that I have heard horror stories about. Finally we reached the temple and both fell to our knees in exhaustion, but then sprung back to our feet and began to set up our tanks trying to make the best impression to the man on the mountain. While we were setting up we realized that while we had brought lights and tanks we had forgotten the most important part of the equation: corals! After our horrible fate was discovered, me and Alfonso found some pretty colored rocks and sticks to try and simulate corals. Our set ups complete, the monk came out of the temple and stepped to the edge of the balcony. He looked upon both of our hastily constructed "tanks" with disdain, we both felt the shame of what we have created and hung our heads in silence. After a few seconds we raised our heads and the holy man waved us towards him. He began to walk inside the temple and we followed him. The inside of the temple was like a maze, turning this way and that way. Finally we arrived at a huge door with a strange glow coming from underneath it. Me and Alfonso looked at each other and decided to go inside, flinging the door open we both stood there in amazement. A 500 gallon reef tank was laid out before us. Everything was in there Acros, stylos, acans, polyps, mushrooms, everything. The system was pristine, not a mark on anything, and the glass was so clear that it seemed as though the water was just being held there by nothing. After a few minutes we both finally raised out heads and noticed that the tank was lit by overdriven VHO's and power compacts. It was then that we both learned our lesson about lighting reef tanks. We left the temple feeling like a couple of fools, foolish for realizing that we had known the answer all along and realized that we had spent the last three weeks climbing some stupid mountain and left our wife/husband/significant other/paid tank watcher in charge of our system at home. In a panic we just left, leaving our displays behind in order to get back to our home tanks that we loved and adored and put so much work into. Alfonso and I still wonder to this day if they took our lighting systems and used them on their huge tank, or if the ended up in the garbage. As I reflect on my adventure and write this I peer into my tank, lit by inefficient, hot, inconsistent MH bulbs and I am totally happy with what I see. I couldn't imagine my tank with any other lighting system, especially those fake looking, high tech, digital, unproven LED's. That doesn't mean that when I move in a year and set up tank big tank number 2 I won't do LED's and I will have a debate. My Lesson is this: You do what you do and I'll do what I do. I would love to hear about your system, especially your lighting, but don't BS me about how great it is. Every system has holes and issues, no matter how well constructed and planned. This is the part of the hobby that makes me hate being a member of sites like this. How are any of us learning anything if we are sitting here calling each other fools and idiots for how our systems are setup? I currently have a MH lighting system on my tank, I would love to hear about your LED system and what you are doing but I want to know the bad as well as the good, that's how all of us get better. Please pass this story on so that we can all move forward instead of standing in the same place calling each other idiots.----"
Now my personal view:
I am actually experimenting what you were.. certain corals are getting orange when they were red (scoly for instance)... while some other sps that I were orange pale are now brigh red and the color they are supposed to be now I wonder perhas my LEDs are too strong.. and I am going to move my scoly to a darker area perhaps..
see if for you, KuyaMark, T5s works better.. keep it that way.. if it is not broken, why fix it.. I have AIs.. you can see in my pictures corals look great.. perhaps 80 of them are doing great but if I see corals dont get the real colors.. I might try T5s. or better yet MH.. I had T5s before and all my lps and zoas were great but not SPSs.. now I have AIs and SPS are great but some lps no.. maybe too much light.. I remember somebody I asked Sanjay (SP?) about the success of his corals and he replied.. well he keeps only corals that do well in his tank and he accepts the colors that he gets.. as long as the corals look healthy and growth.. (BTW dont quote me on that lol.. dont want to start a fight with him) .. see.. What u like I might not like it.. and what I like, you might hate it...
Lets just drink :beer: and lets keep our tanks to the best that we can.. and share the goodies.. :grouphug:
looking forward for the success of ur tank man..
