How long to run T5s?

[CurtnStac]

I have a Coralife 4 bulb t5ho fixture over my shallow (16" deep) 80g, softies and lps only. I just switched to this fixture about 2 weeks ago, coming from black box leds. Right now I'm running 2 blue+ 10hrs, from 10am-8pm and a coral+ and purple+ 7hrs, from 12pm-7pm. Wondering if this is to long? How do you run your t5s??

 

[GoVols]

Looks good from here :)

 

[Bpb]

That’s an ok photoperiod. You could even shorten your full spectrum period a bit if you wanted. I personally prefer the look of blue+/purple+ over two blue+. On my 8 bulb I run 6 bulbs for 10 hours and all 8 bulbs for only 4 hours. Basically a 3 hour dawn and 3 hour dusk if you will

 

[cloak]

Your current lighting schedule sounds just fine to me.

 

[CurtnStac]

That’s an ok photoperiod. You could even shorten your full spectrum period a bit if you wanted. I personally prefer the look of blue+/purple+ over two blue+.

I was just thinking of switch the bulbs up to do that. 2 blue+ are really blue, too blue for me

 

[CurtnStac]

Your current lighting schedule sounds just fine to me.

Thanks!

 

[Brian W]

I only run mine for 7 hrs.

 

[Ferrell]

I generally run 2 b+ for 8 hrs and c+ b+ 4 hrs