LPS Tanks With Tunze Wavebozes - Turn off at night?

[daddy2kids]

LPS gurus with Tunze Waveboxes, do you use the photocell and/or turn off your wavebox(es) at night?

I have a Tunze Nano Wavebox 6206 and a small tank with mostly zoos and LPS (see below, assuming my signature shows). My T5HO lights are on timers with an actinic cycle of about 11 hours total and a 10K cycle of about 8 hours total.

It just occurred to me that, since I use the photocell, my wavebox is running only 11 hours per day, which means it it not being as helpful as it could in terrms of keeping things moving.

I'm thinking of maybe not using the photocell and, instead, either (a) leaving it on 24/7 or (b) simply turning it off at night for about eight hours.

Some people say in some older posts on RC that LPS with sweeper tentacles are the specific type of coral that appreciate the wavebox being turned off at night (to permit full extension of the sweeper tentacles).

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

 

[reef211]

My nano wave box is on 24/7. I have a lot of lps in the tank and everything is good. My tank is 120g so the nano wave doesn't really move stuff around like crazy just enough.

 

[daddy2kids]

Thanks reef211. Anyone else?

 

[daddy2kids]

FEI, consensus from Lighting and Filtration forum is to leave it on 24/7, even for LPS.

 

[etannert]

This was the exact question we were asking the LFS guy yesterday when he told us that our tanks don't even come close to the motion of the ocean (pardon the bad pun). The way he put it is that all the corals in are tanks are going, "could someone please turn the ocean on?" He said given we have very little flow compared to what they are used to (50,000 gal of water swirling and crashing down on them) there is really no need to change it at night.