Lighting schedule

[laurat]

I just got a new light system and was looking for suggestions on timing/schudule. I have seperate switches for daylight (10,000 x2 @ 39W each) and Actinic (2 @ 39W each) with 2 moon lights on another switch.

I have mostly LR, soft corals, polyps, anemone(sebae) and a few fish. Have a few more things, but nothing major.

My light before was not seperate so I had it come on at 8:30 AM and go off at 8:30 PM with the moon light following.

46 G Bowfront

 

[smokey30]

You could do the two actinics for 2 hours then all the lights for 5-6 hours then the two actinics for another hour then moonlights all night.

8:30-10:30 actinics
10:30-4:30 all four bulbs
4:30-5:30 actinics
5:30 till morning moonlights

If you were to get some sps in there then I would stretch the 4 bulb schedule an extra hour or two, since sps need more light. If you needed more par you could have one actinic and one ati blue plus that will give more par value to your tank.