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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 02-01-2011, 07:56 PM
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10 am - Actinic + Aquapink on
11 am - Actinic and White on
9 pm - Actinic and white off
10 pm - Actinic and Aquapink off

So 1 hour for dawn and dusk and 10 hours of full spectrum. I like using the Aquapink in my dawn/dusk......seems more like a sunrise/sunset IMO
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I see a definite trend here with daylight. It seems most people are at 8 hours or less, myself included. 5+ years ago, a similar poll would typically show 10 to 12 hours of daylight. I think we're seeing a lot nicer tanks now with reduced photoperiods.
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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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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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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
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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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I didn't see anybody mention adapting for the lunar cycle.
Is anyone doing that?
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