How long do you guys run your photoperiod

[Unarce]

5 hrs

 

[ScallopKing]

5 hrs MH (3 x 250 10K).
12 hrs actinic (2x165w VHO).

HTH. Sean.

 

[clkwrk]

Mine isn't 11hr constant I have 5 halides the first one is one @ 1pm while it goes of @ 11:30pm Halide #5 (last halide)comes on @ 5pm while going off @ 2 am.

 

[REEF-DADDY]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7937779#post7937779 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by clkwrk
Mine isn't 11hr constant I have 5 halides the first one is one @ 1pm while it goes of @ 11:30pm Halide #5 (last halide)comes on @ 5pm while going off @ 2 am.

Your corals have quite a "nightlife". Mine go to bed at 9.

 

[smokez01]

actinics on @ 7pm
halide on @ 8pm

halide off @ 1am
actinics off @ 2am

runing the lights during the evening and into the night helps a whole lot with temperature

 

[Wiskey]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7938003#post7938003 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by REEF-DADDY
Your corals have quite a "nightlife". Mine go to bed at 9.

Not according to them they don't :lol:

My atinics are on at 12, off at 12, daylight 2-10. I do this because I am more often around at night then during the day.

Whiskey

 

[cwegescheide]

I run my halides 6hrs / day and actinics 8 hrs/day

I noticed a huge diff in coral coloration when I started feeding my tank (flake mostly and cyclopeez) daily. Before I fed 2x/week and all my corals were very pale in compairison. My .02

 

[Acroholic]

Actinics:10am-10pm
MH#1: 12pm-6pm
MH#2: 1pm-7pm
MH#3: 2pm-8pm

 

[panic]

3 400 se 12k Reeflux Halides only: 6 hrs each, staggered 2 hours from left to right, 10 hours total

 

[clkwrk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7938003#post7938003 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by REEF-DADDY
Your corals have quite a "nightlife". Mine go to bed at 9.

:lol: I like to see my reef and 2am is my bedtime . Plus it helps on our summer rates . My electric is over 450 a month in 1100sqft place