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I looked around for a similar topic and couldn’t find any guidance. I have a couple of things i need help with. I work a fairly normal 8-5 job. With my commute, I’m away from home 10 or so hours a day. That’s the number of hours I’ve been suggested to keep my lights on. My question is how do you guys with normal office jobs keep your lights on for only 10 or so hours a day but also feed your fish. Currently i have my lights start at 6AM. They ramp up to sunrise by 6:15, sunrise for an hour, then ramp up to full sunlight by 7:30. I feed them right at 7:20 almost every morning. I don’t have the ramp down to sunset start until 5:30 so i can feed them again when I’m home. Is this adequate or are the lights on for too long? All in all the lights are on in some regard from 6am until 7pm. I don’t have the night mode set so it goes from sunset, ramp down, to off. I have some pretty active fish like lyretail anthias and i was told they really need to be fed at least twice a day, sometimes 3 if i can. I do Hikari frozen mysis for breakfast and NLS pellets at dinner.
Any advice you guys have for me here? Do i not need to feed twice a day and just shut the lights off way sooner? I don’t have lots of algae or anything. Just can’t seem to really kick the diatoms and it looks like I’m starting to get some cyano...
I looked around for a similar topic and couldn’t find any guidance. I have a couple of things i need help with. I work a fairly normal 8-5 job. With my commute, I’m away from home 10 or so hours a day. That’s the number of hours I’ve been suggested to keep my lights on. My question is how do you guys with normal office jobs keep your lights on for only 10 or so hours a day but also feed your fish. Currently i have my lights start at 6AM. They ramp up to sunrise by 6:15, sunrise for an hour, then ramp up to full sunlight by 7:30. I feed them right at 7:20 almost every morning. I don’t have the ramp down to sunset start until 5:30 so i can feed them again when I’m home. Is this adequate or are the lights on for too long? All in all the lights are on in some regard from 6am until 7pm. I don’t have the night mode set so it goes from sunset, ramp down, to off. I have some pretty active fish like lyretail anthias and i was told they really need to be fed at least twice a day, sometimes 3 if i can. I do Hikari frozen mysis for breakfast and NLS pellets at dinner.
Any advice you guys have for me here? Do i not need to feed twice a day and just shut the lights off way sooner? I don’t have lots of algae or anything. Just can’t seem to really kick the diatoms and it looks like I’m starting to get some cyano...