Q About Extra Long Photoperiod

[FSOL]

Since I love to observe my tank w/ only the actinics on (more colorful ), I thought about changing the photoperiod so that there's a long duration of actinic lighting when I'm home.

So here's what I decided to do:

actinics on at 10am
MH's on at 11am
MH's off at 6pm
actinics off at midnight.

this will account for 7 hours of MH & actinic lighting and 14 hours of total lights on period.
Is this ok to do? Will it impact the corals or the fish? The fish still get 10 hours (midnight to 10am) of darkness to sleep/rest.

I'm just curious if it's ok to have the actinics on for an extra 6 hours after the MH's go off.

Thanks

 

[Blown 346]

Sure, as long as you are getting sunlight spectrum for the corals you will be fine with that.

 

[FSOL]

yeah, I'll give them 7 hours of full lighting, that should be plenty I think.