newbie with questions on lights

Just received my lights - 2 actnic and 2 whites, w moonlight. Which ones do i turn on during the day and night for soft corals. don't have any corals yet, but want to make sure I am running them the right way. All on during the day and moon at night? Not sure which. Can some one help? Thanks

 

Moon lights and actinics are more for your viewing pleasure and will provide very little light essential for growth. I would change out your stock bulbs. I just purchased 2 ATI blue plus bulbs and 2 ATI coral plus bulbs to replace my actinics and 10000k bulbs. I turned on both actinics and 10000k during the day for 10 hours and saw minimal growth.

I only turn my moon lights on when I want to take a look at the night time activities or target feed my candy cane coral.

 

Both the actinic and whites during the day. Some people use timers to turn the actinics on first and off last giving a sunrise/sunset effect.

The moonlights can be when you with for your viewing pleasure. They, for the most part, will have no effect on corals.

 

Is your light capable of running the actinic and white lights seperate? If so i would run your white lights for about 4-5 hours a day and your actinics about 8-10 hours a day then your moonlights at night. but if not then run both actinics and whites together during the day and moonlights at night.

 

I run mine on timers. Blues for 10 hours and whites for 8 hours. Blue come on 1 hour before the whites come on, and then blues go off 1 hour after the whites go off. Moon lights are on 24/7.