Hours of lighting poll

[parkavenuereef]

How many hours does everyone light there tanks? Halides / actinics etc?.

 

[marilynrn711]

I run the MH 10 hrs and vhos 12. I am thinking this is too long..

 

[drake66]

7hrs pure 250w MH 14k 3pm-10pm awesome schedule for me

 

[piberoptikz]

MH - 3p-10p / actinics - 12 noon-12 midnight / moonlights - 12 midnight - 6 am.

 

[my2girls]

I voted more/less. 5 hours halides, 8 hours T5 blueplus.

 

[SunnyX]

I also voted more/less:

8.5 hrs MH
13 hrs VHO
18hrs Moonlights
10 hrs Refugium On reverse light cycle.

 

[RichConley]

Halides run from 5:30 to midnight 6.5 hours
Fuge runs the rest of the time.

 

[Purple Haze]

5hrs halide only

 

[parkavenuereef]

what do you think for 2 x 400W 14k's and 2 x 110 W URI super actinics lighting hours over a 120G tank?

 

[argo]

90G mainly SPS tank:

2 X 250 MH Halides: 8 hours (11:00 AM - 7:00 PM);
2 X 110 Actinics: 14 hours (8:00 AM - 10:00 PM).

Plus about two (non-consecutive) weeks of "cloudy" weather (every year) - halides off from a few hours to a full day then back to normal lighting schedule.

 

[SuperNerd]

8 hours halides only.

 

[Ti]

2hs halide

 

[akacable]

Mostly SPS. 1ft clam and 5"clam on bottom. 12hrs VHO and 3hrs 20k 250w sun aquatics SE on mag ballast. That's only about 45 par. Stuff doing great. Had 10K Ushio on for 2hrs but some coral like orange digitata would bleach from the tips. The Ushio was about 100+ PAR.