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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 01-30-2011, 10:44 PM
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3hr dawn
5hr full daylight
2hr dusk
then total darkness....... lol
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Old 01-30-2011, 10:47 PM
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3hr dawn
5hr full daylight
2hr dusk
then total darkness....... lol
Just wondering... what are you growing in your tank? Have you noticed any slowing of growth with only 5 hours full spectrum?
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I have nothing but SPS in my tank. I am running a 6x54w Ati powermodule and am getting great growth a PE. I read somewhere that sometime less is more when it comes to lighting and I have been very pleased with how my tank has responded to it. I will try to find the article.
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1.5 hrs leds 1 hr actinic 11 hrs full lights 1 hr actinic 1 hr leds.
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I run a 2hours dawn, 5hours daylight and 2 hours dusk... and I suddenly feel like im not giving my tank enough light reading these numbers...
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Dawn/dusk actinic on at 8am, off at 12:00 am. Halides on from 1:30pm to 9:00pm.
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3 Hours Moonlight (6am-9am)
3 Hours T5 (9am-12pm)
6 Hours T5 & MH (12pm-6pm)
3 Hours T5 (6pm-9pm)
3 Hours Moonlight (9pm-12am)
6 Hours Total Darkness (12am-6am)

Seems to work well for and gives lots of different viewing modes

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Actinic on 6:30 am
MH on at 2 pm, off at 8 pm
Actinic off at 10pm
24hr Moon lights
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I run blue LEDs for an hour as dawn then daylight for 10 hours then 2 hours of blue LEDs as dusk
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Dawn at 10:00am pc1, 10:30am pc2, 2:00pm mh1, 2:30pm mh2, 3:00pm mh3, till 7:59pm full daylight, 8:00pm mh1 off, 8:30pm mh2 off, 9:00pm mh3 off, 10:30pm pc1 off at the same time sump refugium light on, 11:00pm pc2 off, led night light is always on.
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