Hot House/Hot tank
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ahullsb
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If they synchronize their clocks around a 24 hour cycle then how can you say turning off the light for a few days, or shortening the lighting period would be any less stressful than switching from day to night during the summer? You may well be right but I've never heard of that being a problem before. That was actually a recommendation from a marine biologist friend of mine to reverse the photoperiod. Do you have any articles about it being stressful?
If your tank is too hot you can always turn the lights off and direct a fan over the water .. simple solution. BTW .. if you want you can keep the lights off until they fix your air conditioner on Monday .. no big deal .. people tend to forget that Hurricanes/Storms turn the lights off over the Ocean all the time.
Frick-n-Frags
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good question. dark periods that don't get replaced with odd light periods do not affect the cycle. you could just keep the tank on reverse for the whole summer. that would reset them once basically
no articles, just life with the corals. they have to keep re-figuring out when to feed etc and therefore don't get it done. I guarantee you will screw up your corals by switching their photoperiod to reverse every couple of days for a long enough time. just like running the lights 24/7. the corals eventually screw up from that too. they won't grow as well as with stabilized photoperiods because of the stress.
prove me wrong. run the same coral under 24/7 light somewhere out of the DT and see what happens.
marybeth1975
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Thanks guys for all the info. I have been turning my lights off a little eariler and I do like the "ice cube" idea. And I have some fans too, so I have a few different options....thanks
