Hours of light

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When I was actively teaching coral reef biology for scuba divers, I remember talking about corals only receiving around 6 hours, of truly high level natural light, per day. Since, in our reef aquariums, modern light fixtures can be adjusted to accelerate growth, I have decided to only run my lights for 6 hours per day. Does anyone do the same, and if so, what results did you get? I would think, 6 hours of light, as opposed to 10-12 hours, would help eliminate the growth of any nuisance algae.
 

IF YOU HAD TO OPERATE EVERYTHING ELSE MANUALLY, WHICH AUTOMATED SYSTEM WOULD YOU KEEP?

  • Auto top-off

    Votes: 60 57.7%
  • Automated dosing

    Votes: 6 5.8%
  • Mechanical filtration / roller filter

    Votes: 4 3.8%
  • Automated water testing

    Votes: 3 2.9%
  • Automatic feeding

    Votes: 1 1.0%
  • Lighting schedule

    Votes: 20 19.2%
  • Controller and remote monitoring

    Votes: 4 3.8%
  • Leak detection and emergency shutoff

    Votes: 2 1.9%
  • Automatic water changes

    Votes: 3 2.9%
  • None. I prefer to operate everything manually

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Something else (explain in the comments)

    Votes: 1 1.0%
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