lighting help !!!!

[pnsnowboard]

i have 2 150W HQI halides and one of the transformers burt out (i moved all the corals to the side where the light is working) and i need to take it up to aqua-medic to get it fixed but they need it over night and i am wondering if my tank would be fine without light for 48 hours or would that jepridize the corals health ?????

 

[PSEUDOREEFER]

I've done it before and saw no negative effects on the coral. However, you would probably want at least a small florescent light to prevent the fish from being stressed.

 

[pnsnowboard]

well there is no fish in the tank its just corals at the moment i havent got fish yet

 

[jdallred]

What kind of corals?

 

[pnsnowboard]

lps and softies

 

[MBX5]

Do you run any other lights or just the MH? I don't see any reason why it would be that bad for the corals. Think of it this way a bad storm came in and blocks most of the sun I would try to run some other light even if it's just natural sun from a window.

 

[pnsnowboard]

i dont have any other light and its in the base ment so no chance for other light

 

[MBX5]

I still think you would be ok. I made a move from UT to CO with my corals (SPS) in bins for 4 days and all but 2 made it. I don't think it was the lights but temp that got them. I would not think twice about 48 hours and no light. but see what other think.

 

[jdallred]

IME, with power outages, softies and lps should be fine without any light for 48 hrs. I would be more concerned about light shock when the Mh are added back to the system. Like the others have suggested I would try to add some kind of light to help reduce the amount of shock when the MH are back over the tank. Even with this I would still re-introduce the MH slowly.

 

[adams0816]

did you get your lighting situation figured out ?

 

[wantsalotta]

yea, like a lamp or something near the tank, and my zoos open up like the photoperiod is on...they would be fine without that, too though