Red Zoas not showing up red under LED lighting

sjet

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Hi, I'm new to the hobby. I can't seem to get my red zoa's to show up red with my setup. They show up as a bright orange color. I'm currently running the coralbox moon led system. I tried adjusting all the settings but anything I do just make them glow brighter, not change the color. Is there a spectrum that makes red corals pop or is this a common LED lighing issue? At the LFS where I got them from, they were pretty red under T5.
 
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Different colored leds are going to make corals appear differently.

Have you tried just running the blues only? That light seems to have a lot of different colors in the red, green, cyan, amber etc that are probably messing with the colors of the corals. Try turning most of those down or off.
 

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Run blue and uv color spectrum
 
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