Lighting Schedule Help!

[sotsreef]

can people recommend a lighting schedule for an 8 gallon cube with an a80 tuna blue. Please share anything you know, thx!

 

[Crabs McJones]

How are you controlling the light?

 

[sotsreef]

How are you controlling the light?

I am using a kessil spectral controller. I have a gooseneck for the light also.

 

[Crabs McJones]

I am using a kessil spectral controller. I have a gooseneck for the light also.

Excellent. Depended on what corals you're keeping you'll want to do a 10 hour cycle with a 2 hour ramp up to your peak intensity and 3 hour ramp down to turn off at the end of the day. This'll give you a 5 hour peak intensity. Your peak intensity will be determined on what corals your keeping, and how far off the waters surface you have the light.

 

[sotsreef]

Excellent. Depended on what corals you're keeping you'll want to do a 10 hour cycle with a 2 hour ramp up to your peak intensity and 3 hour ramp down to turn off at the end of the day. This'll give you a 5 hour peak intensity. Your peak intensity will be determined on what corals your keeping, and how far off the waters surface you have the light.

Thinking of keeping lots of soft corals and one monti cap, I’m gonna have a few mushrooms at the bottom and an anemone for my Clownfish to host.