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Davidb6
06/30/2007, 12:03 PM
My tank finished cycling a few weeks ago and I’m in the process of (“slowly”) adding life. I want to gradually increase the number of hours my lights are on until I have a nice natural cycle. Would this (below) be an appropriate cycle to ramp up to? Tank is focused on indo-pacific region (rock, fish, inverts, corals)

LED Moon lights –
On 24 hrs
Small white LEDs (dawn and dusk)
On 6:00am, off 9:00pm (15 hrs total)
T5 -4@96w (mix of blue and white)
On 8:00am off 8:00pm (12 hrs total)
MH – 2@150
On 9:00am, off 7:00pm 10 hrs total)

This seems like too much time for the MH??

65 gal
90 lbs live rock
65 lbs live sand
SPS

papagimp
06/30/2007, 12:07 PM
I'd go a total of about 10hrs tops and that's all lighting involved. So the most any one of those should be on is about 10hrs....minus the moonlights, those won't matter at all.

Davidb6
06/30/2007, 02:38 PM
Based on this link I was planning to go with 12 1/2 hrs per day total to be as realistic as possible.

http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/labasa.html

kau_cinta_ku
06/30/2007, 03:02 PM
12.5 will work fine that is what i keep mine around