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07-29-2011, 04:45 PM
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 When you are changing from a lower light setup to a much higher light setup you will want to go very slowly. Start off with only an hour or two of halide, and increase it by a half hour every 2-4 days watching how your corals are doing. Watch for shrunken flesh in LPS, and bleaching. Usually corals will bleach slowly when it comes to more light than they are used to, so if you see bleaching the problem has been happening for a few days already, so you would need to cut back by at least an hour before ramping up again even slower. Moonlights are aesthetic. It is well known that spawning activity and many other behaviors are linked to the moon's phases. So moonlights came along, and people quickly realized that it is the gravitational pull of the moon's phases, not the actual light provided by the moon that affects the ocean's inhabitants. 
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07-29-2011, 05:26 PM
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This would be my light systems change plan from PC to MH :
2Pm to 8Pm : 15 min ON 45 Min OFF for week 1 30 min ON 30 Min OFF for week 2 same for week 3 45 ON 15 OFF week 4 same for week 5 Full time on after that. How is that sounds?
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07-29-2011, 11:04 PM
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Mine is like so:
Actinics: 10am-11pm "Whites": 11am-10pm Moonlights: 11pm-6am Now, if it weren't for the fridays, saturdays and sunday when we're all home, I'd fire everything up a little later, but I like to go down and tinker in the mornings on the weekends. (My wife calls it obsessing... lol)
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07-30-2011, 01:52 AM
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Yup. funny thing about the world... the moon is out all night... and the SUN IS ON ALL DAY.
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-Murdoch 160 gallon Reef, almost all SPS, a few LPS, small handfull of Zoas, and 5 clams. LOVING the upgrade (now that most of the work is done!) My tank Journal: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=75924
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07-29-2011, 05:56 PM
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 That's a lot of messing around with timers! For lights, I just use the cheap $8 timers that have those little tabs that you move around. So to move a tab over a half hour takes a whopping 3 seconds. To mess around with several on/off settings in a day would be a pain in the butt. Doesn't really matter how you do it though.What kind of corals do you have? You probably don't have to take 5 weeks to make the switch.
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07-29-2011, 06:55 PM
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I am using 15min tab timers , it is not that hard to configure the time for that, I really dont want to bleach any of LPSs
This is mt tank :  Rose BTA , Green BTA, Elegance , Torch , Hammer , Frogspawn, Zoa, Mushrooms , Ricordia , Lobo , Mostly LPS and soft corals . Current lighting is : 2x 55w 50/50 10,000k T5 + 2 x 18w Actinic T5 = 146W new one is : New Lighting systems is : 1x 250W DE HQI Bulb 15000K 4x 24W T5 Actinic Blue = 346W! it is more than double that's why I am really worried about this change Last edited by arash53; 07-29-2011 at 07:27 PM.
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