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View Poll Results: Whats your light cycle?
7 hours - full daylight 4 2.96%
8 hours - full daylight 13 9.63%
9 hours full daylight 6 4.44%
10 hours - full daylight 22 16.30%
1 hour dawn - 6 hours full light - 1 hour dusk 12 8.89%
1 hour dawn - 7 hours full light - 1 hour dusk 13 9.63%
1 hour dawn - 8 hours full light - 1 hour dusk 32 23.70%
1 hour dawn - 7 hours full light - 1.5 hours dusk 8 5.93%
Other - Please specify 25 18.52%
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Old 01-31-2011, 07:39 PM
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I didn't see my choice which is 2 hours morning actinic, 10 hours sunlight and 2 hours evening actinic.

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My daily light cycle for winter is 3pm to 3am atinics, which is 2 overdriven t5 @ 80w per with ati blue bulbs, halides kick on at 6pm to 1 am and I am running 2x250w hqi ushio 20k.

For summer the atinics come on at 6pm to 6am halides from 9pm to 3 am and the reason for this is because of heat. I generally run my lights really late aswell because I am at work all day and want to see the tank at night, I tend to run the halides longer in the winter and less in the summer... My tank also gets natural light from a window so that helps...
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10am - T5 on
3pm - halides on
8pm - halides off
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8:00AM Actinics on
12:00PM MH joins the actinics
8:00PM MH off
9:30PM Actinics off
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My light cycle is forever changing with the daylite hours.. so I don`t have set cycle I have seasons.
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Old 02-01-2011, 11:47 PM
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10am: 22k T5 on
12pm: Halides on
7pm: Halides off
10pm: T5 off
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My light cycle is forever changing with the daylite hours.. so I don`t have set cycle I have seasons.
Possible to expand on this?
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7am to 8am--actinics for dawn effect
8am to 1pm--off. The way my tank sits I have natural sunlight that comes through
1pm to 7pm --full light
7pm to 9pm--actinics for dusk effect
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