Steve`s LED biocube 14 retrofit

I have panorama pro's in my 14 now and have had great growth, but when I moved some coral to my reefbreeders LED system I noticed way more color, so I am thinking of replacing the pros.


Steves standard kits has:


9- Royal Blue Luxeon ES 3 watt LEDs


5- 5,000K Neutral White Luxeon ES 3 watt LEDs - Full Spectrum White LEDs


But I want to bring out more colors. I have gotten some advise from nano reef and looked over past builds and am thinking of this.


4 4k white to bring out reds without needing a red led


2 cool blue for spectrum


1 cyan, a nano reef guy said the 4k white could use a bit of cyan


2 violet, I love the glowing look


5 royal blue


Now the reefbreeders that i like has:Reefbreeders has:


13white 4.5k


6 blue


6 violet


2 red


28 rb


Reduce that by 2/3 (with rounding) to approx the led's in steves kit:


4 white


2 blue


2 violet


(1 red omitted)


9 RB


So the LEDs that I am leaning to are pretty close to the reefbreeders with less royal blue and 1 more cyan. Thoughts? Should I reduce the whites to 3 and add 1 royal blue?

 

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Just to complete the record ended up getting Steve's 95% finished kit. For extra $60 they installed another driver and 6 violets as that is the min needed to run on that driver. They responded quickly and helped a bit with selection. Ended up with:

4 4k white
3 cool blue
1 cyan
6 royal blue
6 violet

There will be 3 channels with knobs to allow dimming. This combo should produce amazing color and I can dial up or down the radioactive look with the violets. With peaks at 419nm, 445nm, 475nm, 500nm and the WW covering reds it should be a pretty complete spectrum. Its has about the same peaks as the maxspect razor but without the cool whites and has a cyan the razor doesn't.