How Long to Keep on Daylights?

[Kasey Grohowski]

I read many reef aquariums run lights for 10-12 hours. I'd like to run mine for 10. My lights are programmed to start at 830 as a sunrise and ramp up to daylights at 10, then start ramping down again at 430 until 6, then the moonlight is ran for 2 hours. Is this a healthy schedule? Can I cut the daylights down an hour? It's going to be mostly soft and a few lps corals. Thank you.

 

[KorD]

Sounds about right.
My moonlights kick on at 9 (3little blue LEDs), my blues kick on at 9:30, whites kick on at 10, the white run til 9pm, blues kick off at 9:30, and moonlights kick off at 10.
I have a tank with anemones, a few zoa's and two clowns.

 

[Kasey Grohowski]

Sounds about right.
My moonlights kick on at 9 (3little blue LEDs), my blues kick on at 9:30, whites kick on at 10, the white run til 9pm, blues kick off at 9:30, and moonlights kick off at 10.
I have a tank with anemones, a few zoa's and two clowns.

You run whites for 11 hours? I was hoping to run mine for only 5-5 1/2

 

[KorD]

You run whites for 11 hours? I was hoping to run mine for only 5-5 1/2

You can run them as long as you want really. Just watch what you have in the tank. The corals will let you know if they want more light.
I used to have one of my last tanks that only ran whites for 5 hours a day. I had mostly zoas and gsp. They did amazing with it.