Corals will also shine? Haisheng Museum LED light exploration

Corals also glow? In fact, corals in the low light or no light environment, with the blue light source can show beautiful fluorescent light, which is a natural mechanism for corals to protect themselves. Taiwan's Pingtung Haisheng Museum conducts artificial coral culture with LED light sources of different spectral bands, and found that the ability to grow corals in different spectra is different.
According to the Haisheng Museum, the ability to make corals fluorescing is a protein in the body that absorbs excessive light, or high-energy and harmful ultraviolet rays, and then releases them with low-energy fluorescence. In other words, this illuminating mechanism is used by corals to protect themselves from sun damage and to avoid glare.

Coral glow is most commonly green, and others are red, orange, yellow... very colorful. According to the international academic journal Nature, it affects the intensity and coloration of coral fluorescence, which is related to coral species, symbiotic algae strains, light intensity, spectral wavelength, and surface composition.

The Haisheng Museum experimented with artificially cultured corals and found that certain types of corals were cultivated with different spectral bands of LED light sources, which showed different fluorescing capabilities. Taking "笠 coral" as an example, a mixed light source with a wavelength of 450 nm blue light and a wavelength of 395 nm purple light is artificially cultivated with a special yellow filter to emit fluorescent light.