"Green week" what do you cycle on/off

[KurtsReef]

In light of this being "Green Week" (http://www.nbc.com/Green/) what items running on your system do you cycle on and off, and what sort of pattern.

Lights are pretty obviously not run all day (well, any system I have seen except perhaps refugium lights)

Do you cycle other things on/off rather than run them continuously? Skimmers/in line pumps/filtration/uv etc.

I do cycle the in line pump on and off many times throughout the day with a varying time on and off. That is really the only item not running continuous other than the lighting.

Have been thinking about running the skimmer in a part time mode with a few hours break each day, not sure about the rest.

[stealthbimmer]

my skimmer is off from 9pm til 6am...along with everything else except one powerhead

[arts007]

Actually I cycle my lights on/off 2-3 times a day depending on what day it is, on the timer, they stay off for about 45 mins. I find I get better growth

[Aquarist007]

halides on for 8 hours--attinics on for 10 hours

I use hydors for power heads--very low energy users

The biggest energy user is a mag3600 pump on 24/7--don't know anyway around the use of that one

[ReefDent]

Ironic, I just added some Tunze streams this week, lol!!!

James

[LobsterOfJustice]

I dunno about others, but I hate messing with turning the skimmer off. Once I get it set the way I want it, if I were to turn it off then back on I would have to re-set it. I'm using an external beckett.

As far as saving energy, I switched out all the bulbs in my apartment for those flourescent ones. My bathroom alone had one of those vanity fixtures using 5 60w incandescents, I traded them out for 3 of the 13w flourescents. Before, the bathroom lighting was more electricity than one of my halides.

[KurtsReef]

Yeah, we swapped out 90% of the bulbs in our house to the compact florescent screw in style for energy savings...we will see if they actually burn for 7 years as the packaging states.

[Logzor]

I switched all of my bulbs out for CFL several months ago and have saved a decent amount of money. I also taped up all of my windows with plastic because the windows in the apartment are garbage.

No change in tank operation. I am waiting on a new light fixture so I am only running 2x65 and my corals are as huge as they were with 4x65PC.

I have no sump so there is no big pump moving water around.

[Aquarist007]

forgot to add--I'm running a 25watt energy saver bulb over my refugium:
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