Lighting schedules and timings

[shadyraro]

Newby here just wondering what schedules and times people have set their lights to turn on and off at. Mine currently come on at 1pm and off at 11pm using the 1:8:1 schedule, with 1 hour ramp up, 8 hrs constant and 1 hour ramp down. I'm using a radion xr15 g6 on a cade 600 with this schedule:

Point intensity 100
UV 100
Violet 100
Royal 100
Blue 100
Cyan 100
Lime 10
Red 10
Cool white 50

Does this schedule/time seem ok? My corals seem happy and opening and apart from a bit of hair algae it's doing ok.

 

[Hurricane Aquatics]

What corals do you have and how is the XR mounted? Also, what overall intensity are you running it at?

 

[shadyraro]

At the moment I just have a few LPS and the light is mounted with the rms mount. I think the overall intensity is 50%

 

[shadyraro]

Point intensity is 100

 

[South Carolina reef]

I follow the natural sun cycle seems obvious to me. Including dst.

 

[South Carolina reef]

I follow the natural sun cycle seems obvious to me. Including dst.

And moon faze

 

[shadyraro]

I follow the natural sun cycle seems obvious to me. Including dst.

I used to but by the time I got home from work i'd only have a couple hrs to enjoy the tank.

 

[South Carolina reef]

I used to but by the time I got home from work i'd only have a couple hrs to enjoy the tank.

Right. I work from home so .....lol

 

[arafas]

I have xr15 g5 blue. I run 13.5h everything on 100% till about 5pm then only blue rest of the day point intensity 75. I have 5 of them. According to ecotech all channels at 100 is AB +