JeF4y
01/18/2010, 02:01 PM
I'm looking at reducing my light cycle to aid in my algae war. Currently battling a small outbreak of Bryopsis and a massive outbreak of Gelidium.
I have an 8 bulb ATI fixture which has 2 modes, 1 mode (sunrise/sunset) lights 2 bulbs and the other adds the other 6. The bulbs are only around 5 months old (if not less) and are a mix of mostly Blue +, a white actinic, a fiji purple and a 10,000k daylight.
Right now I'm running all lights for about 9 hrs, and running the sunrise / sunset 1 hr before and 1 hr after all lights kick on. So the total light cycle is 11 hours.
My corals are a mix of mostly LPS & softies with 1 SPS (birdsnest).
I can't really find anything about how long the light cycle should be or should be reduced by.
Thoughts?
I have an 8 bulb ATI fixture which has 2 modes, 1 mode (sunrise/sunset) lights 2 bulbs and the other adds the other 6. The bulbs are only around 5 months old (if not less) and are a mix of mostly Blue +, a white actinic, a fiji purple and a 10,000k daylight.
Right now I'm running all lights for about 9 hrs, and running the sunrise / sunset 1 hr before and 1 hr after all lights kick on. So the total light cycle is 11 hours.
My corals are a mix of mostly LPS & softies with 1 SPS (birdsnest).
I can't really find anything about how long the light cycle should be or should be reduced by.
Thoughts?