Quick: Whats your lighting Schedule?

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  1. Glipzcom

    Glipzcom Flamingo Tongue

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    Hey everyone I read here constantly, and often I am reading advice to someone suffering from some ailment. So this question is for all the people who are happy with their tanks.

    Whats your lighting schedule:

    Heres mine but im not happy with my algae problems.

    Antics On: 10am
    VHO On 1230pm
    VHO Off 5pm
    Antics Off: 7pm


    I think i should be leaving them on longer.

    NEXT!!!
     
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  2. Otty

    Otty Giant Squid

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    VHO Super Actinics 16 hr day
    3-400w MH's 9 hr day

    How do your corals look?? If you are adjusting your time do it slowly not all at once. Maybe 1 hr then two weeks do another.
     
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  3. nemo79

    nemo79 Zoanthid

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    My lighting is:

    Atnitics on: 12pm
    daylights on: 1pm
    Daylights off: 8pm
    Atnitics off: 9pm

    I read somewhere that atnitics should start one hr before daylights and run hr after.
     
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  4. lunatik_69

    lunatik_69 Giant Squid

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    Hi everybody, well I run my lights the following way, let me know what you think; actinics 11:00am-10:00pm and MH's 12:00pm-10:00pm.
     
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  5. Bruce

    Bruce Giant Squid

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    UMMM

    Actinics On 10AM
    Daylights On 11AM

    Daylights Off 9PM
    Actinics Off 10PM

    I think that is how my lights are scheduled...
     
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  6. MDeth

    MDeth Feather Star

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    To jump on and ask a question :p

    Has anybody heard or read a rumor that actinics look 'brighter' to fish than they do to us humans ? According to this theory, the lighting schedule actinic/10K should be reversed. Anybody ?
     
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  7. omard

    omard Gnarly Old Codfish

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    Actinics - on 0730
    Daylights - on 0830
    MH - on 1000

    MH - off 1900
    Daylights - off 2000
    Actinics - off 2100
     
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  8. newton27

    newton27 Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Actinics On 9:45AM
    Daylights On 12PM

    Daylights Off 7PM
    Actinics Off 9PM
     
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  9. Bruce

    Bruce Giant Squid

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    Hmmm...I am not sure if the eye of a fish acts differently than that of a human...but they might make sense. Because if you were to go to a coral reef 20m-30m under water everything will look blue because that is the only light that can penetrate the water that deep. I think that because of the shallow depth of a tank the blue might look brighter because it already can travel deeper than the rest of the spectrum...and in a tank there is no need to because it is so shallow...i think that makes sense...maybe...lol;D
     
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  10. MDeth

    MDeth Feather Star

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    Go on an early morning dive for me! Let me know what color it appears to humans at sunset. Because I don't believe it is that blue color all day :/
     
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