lighting times

[Todd_Sails]

B/C I now have corals, anens, etc, I decided to increase my light times.

I have the old Coralife PC lights over my 6ft long 125 currently.

Each light is 3 ft long, and each has one dual 420/460nm @ 96W
and one 10,000K also at 96W.
So, each half of the tank has this setup.
I may have nearly 400 total watts, but it's half of it over each half of the tank, not all 4 bulbs over the tank.

I have softies near the bottom, and the rest of my corals (sps-lps) halfway up or higher.
All seem to be doing well.

I guess my question is, Will this be adequate, for now anyways.
My bulbs were bought new in June/2011.

 

[Todd_Sails]

Any thoughts?

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

You could run those upwards of 12hrs a day. If you are less than that just increase the time period slowly over weeks.
Can you run the dual actinics seperate from the dual daylights?
If yes, run the dual whites for 6-10 hrs and the actinics for up to 12 hrs.

 

[reef boy]

definitely increase slowly and over time.

 

[Todd_Sails]

Thanks,

I realize after reading my first post, that I fogot to mention who long I have them on for.

I did have them on:
Actinics 10hr's
10K 8hrs.
The blues come one hr before, and stay on one hr after the 10K's.

I now have them blues 12hrs,
and the whites 10hrs in the 12hrs of the blues.
with 12 hrs of no lights.

I'm also looking for an inexpensive set of leds to simulate moonlight.