What's a successful reef keeping light schedule?

ItouchedThebutt · Mar 30, 2018

Im just curious to see how other people do there lights such as how long, what ramp ups and downs, even what colors they use, when they use them. All that fun stuff.

I personally use a AI prime on a 10 gallon IM Nuvo fusion, 1 sps, few hammers/frog spawn, 1 acan, and tons of zoas and pallys.

My ramp start in the morning went from 12 to 2 to get to 100% peak.

100 UV
100 Violet
80 DB
80 RB
15 GR
10 DR
15 W

Then lows would gradually shift a hour later, drop about 10% - 5%

Had pretty good sucess in sps and zoas and pallys but still tweaking it. Wondering what colors help most. Or what my tank prefers.

Somuchflo99 · Mar 30, 2018

@Dana Riddle if any one knows it’s this guy

Dana Riddle · Mar 30, 2018

I don't see anything about your spectra that causes concerns. The piece of info missing is light intensity (lux, PAR) - do you have any data on these? Acanthastrea and Euphyllia spp. are generally quite tolerant of low light.

ItouchedThebutt · Apr 2, 2018

Dana Riddle said:
I don't see anything about your spectra that causes concerns. The piece of info missing is light intensity (lux, PAR) - do you have any data on these? Acanthastrea and Euphyllia spp. are generally quite tolerant of low light.

No i don't have a par meter Unfortunatly. I don't know i was more or less wanting to hear everyone elders schedual and see how that fairs for them. If there's any similarities and differences. Kinda judge from there.