Lighting cycles. 250MH 20k, t5, moon lite LED

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Hi all!!!!

Blue thumbs, lend me your growing skills and help me find a good schedule for my 125 gal reef.

Currently I am running 2 250 watt MH bulbs (20k), 1 purple t5 and 1 actinic t5 and two Icecap moonlight LEDs.

Before I changed my configuration I was running my MH for 10 hours a day with the t5 coming on one hour prior and the moon lights 1 hour before that. 12-14 hours total.

But I want to get to a more natural lighting cycle and would like some help/suggestions.

I like the purple and actinic bulbs in the evening. Makes the color pattern I want, but I also want to make sure it's the best thing for the corals. So I changed my schedule up a little.

8 am the led moon come on. 1 hour later the two T5 come up. At 11 the MH come up for 7 hours. The t5 and led stay on for 1 hour. T5 go off and moons stay on for another 2 hours.

Total photic period 13-14 hours.

Here is an image of the new lighting with the MH off.

Ideas, suggestions, change add supplement??? Any helps would be super appreciated. image.jpeg
Sorry for the crappy pic. Didn't wanna break out the camera.
 
How many T5,s are you running and what wattage?

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This is the fixture. As stated in the first post, two t5 (ok. What I didn't include is the are 48inch 54 watt) and 2 moonlight LEDs (32 watt each) total wattage ~650. However, because they are 20k MH the par is slightly reduced in comparison with a 14k bulb. I don't know my par values, but should I know. Ill get with local reefing club for that.
So I'm running about 5 watts per gallon with everything on.

Any other info help? I appreciate your insights offered
 

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