LED makes tank colors washed out

[bolling]

We have a jbj 24 gallon nano with fluorescent lights and a jbj 28 with leds and the led tank with the fluorescents is much more colorful. We have them in the same room and the difference is pretty dramatic. Anything I can do other than change lights? I have both sets of blues on by the way, it's even worse with the blues off.

[NanoReefWanabe]

what LEDs are you using?

colours, ratios, amperage?

[bolling]

It's the LED hood that came with the tank. They offered two different ones and mine is the so called professional one with a 89 watt output. It has Daylight — 25 x 3 Watt — 14K Dawn/Dusk — 4 x 3 Watt — Actinic/466nm Moon — 2 x 1 Watt — Nite-Vu/456nm but they are non adjustable. Thanks for any ideas.

[NanoReefWanabe]

the problem s yo dont have anywhere near enough blue LEDs to give any colour...

typical DIY fixtures are generally 2:1 blue to white, at the very least they are 1:1 blue to white...your fixture appears to be 1:8 blue to white...even as cool whites they are too white to give much colour...

my fixture is 1:1 but my blues run about 50% and whites only around 20%

[bolling]

Thanks