Poll: Lighting Hours at Max Intensity

[redfishbluefish]

I'm not sure if I should pick 1 - 4 or 4 - 6, since I run my full lights for 4 hours.

I have simple old school black boxes where I control two channels on each fixture....a predominately blue and white channel. In addition I have two, four foot IceCap moon lights that are part of my light cycle.

Sunrise (Nightlights) ------------ 1 hr ------------ 10AM-11AM
Morning (Blues only) ------------ 3 hr ------------ On at 11AM
Mid-day (Blues and Whites) --- 4 hr ------------- 2PM - 6PM
Afternoon (Blues) ----------------3 hr ------------- Off at 9PM
Sunset (Nightlights) --------------1 hr ------------ 9PM-10PM

 

[iemsparticus]

This is my Kessil’s schedule. T5s are on from 10:45am to 6:15pm, so 7.5 hours max intensity.

 

[GoVols]

8 hour for full daylight period

 

[3mm3]

Halides full speed for 6 hours. Going to 7 soon. Ramp up takes a few moments lol

 

[Ashish Patel]

6 and 1/2 HR at max intensity. Was worried it was not long enough but with this thread I think I am a safe range!

 

[BigJohnny]

2 ati true actinic t5s: 9am-9pm (12 hrs)
2 Kessil a350w: 11am-7am (8 hours)
4 ati blue plus t5s: 12pm-6pm (6 hours)

6 hours peak

 

[Ryane7]

3 am on
9 am off

3 pm on
9 pm off

 

[Coronus]

Reef Brite Actinic XHO 10 hrs 2pm-12a
2x T5 Blue Plus 3pm- 11pm
4 x T5 4 pm-10pm

So max all on 6 hrs

 

[Scorpius]

About 3 hrs max for me. It's not noon day sun in the ocean all day long so why should my reef.

 

[BigJohnny]

3 am on
9 am off

3 pm on
9 pm off

Never seen a schedule like this before, you run lights from 3am-9am, then nothing until 3pm?

 

[Saltwaterfrenzy]

I have a Kessil AP700 on a 120 gallon mixed reef.
The light comes on at 10am, ramps up to 100% at 2:30pm-7pm and ramps down to 0% by 10:30pm.

 

[Newb73]

My goal is peak Par in the brightest hot spot of just over 300 PAR for about 4 hours. 225 to 275 Par for about 4 hours and under 200 par for the rest.

This gives me 4 hours in the 120 to 190 PAR on the floor of the tank and around 120 PAR in shaded areas during those peak hours with lower par in the 30s to 90s during the rest of the day.

 

[Coral Newbie]

My AI Hydra HD is always fluctuating. I reacently watch a Jason Fox video and he emphasizes blues on all his corals

 

[Jberge]

I have a quad T5 fixture with led moonlights
Moonlights 12pm-2pm, 9pm-11pm
(2) blue+ from 1pm-10pm
Blue+ and coral+ from 2pm-9pm
So 7hrs

 

[Ryane7]

Never seen a schedule like this before, you run lights from 3am-9am, then nothing until 3pm?

Correct 2 light cycles every 24 hrs
Corals seem to grow faster
Look it up smarter people than me can explain everything to you

 

[OREGONIC]

My AI Hydra HD is always fluctuating. I reacently watch a Jason Fox video and he emphasizes blues on all his corals

How high off the water is your light and which hydra?

 

[Mical]

I run max about 4 hours

 

[Coral Newbie]

How high off the water is your light and which hydra?

I have the RedSea Max E-170 so it's the Hydra 26 not sure how high off the tank the light is.

 

[BigJohnny]

Correct 2 light cycles every 24 hrs
Corals seem to grow faster
Look it up smarter people than me can explain everything to you

Haha k, very cool. How'd you get that idea? Doesn't it mess up your fish?

 

[OREGONIC]

I have the RedSea Max E-170 so it's the Hydra 26 not sure how high off the tank the light is.

Got the same setup e170 with 26hd. I have a similar light schedule. Based mine on the BRS version of the ab+ Just reduced to about 85% of what they had. Have had it on this setting for about a month and half and all is doing pretty good except for a little bleaching on 2 of the acros up higher in tank. Both are holding in there and appear to be slowly regaining color.