daylights on for full cycle

[phantomg23]

rather than running actinics an hour before and an hour after the daylights, could i just turn all bulbs on for the duration of the light cycle throughout the day? the only real harm i see is shocking them

[crsswift70]

Sure you can. It does spook the fish though to have lights blast on. If you have timers, i'm not sure why you wouldn't do the actinics though.

[phantomg23]

bulb arrangement. My tek has the 2 outer bulbs for the actinic but i dont want to run any true actinics I'd rather go for a crispy white with B+ and coral plus bulbs along with a purple+

[maddmaxx]

I have my actinics come on 2hrs before daylights, and 2hrs after daylights. but I keep my actinics on while the daylights are on too. makes the tank look brighter and more of a vivid color on the corals..

[phantomg23]

yea i have a tank with the whole cycle but im not sure i want actinic bulbs for this tank, rather a mix between the 2 in one bulb. like the coral plus bulb and blue plus bulbs

[LobsterOfJustice]

I dont particularly like the look of actinic only so my dawn/dusk lighting is one actinic bulb and one daylight bulb. Still gives a dimmer, bluer look but its more natural looking IMO.

[Andyf30]

I use 2 b+ for my morning bulbs. My schedule is royal blue led bar for 2 hours, 2 b+ for 2 hours, all lights for 6 hours (4 b+, 1 p+, and 1 Giesseman 6700k), 2 b+ for 2 hours, led bar until around 10, for my viewing pleasure when I'm home.

[phantomg23]

if i were to go with
blue plus
coral plus
blue plus
6500k
coral plus
blue plus

would it be too blue? this bulb arrangement allows me to do a dawn/dusk. i want like a 16k crispy white.

[Donkeykong]

You could just have on of the b+ and p+ come on a little earlier, you are just trying to make the transition from no light to full light a little easier. But if you are set on all coming on at the same time I would cut the light cycle down a little, because now you are going 100% light an extra 2 hours a day, you might start to see an algae blooms from the excess light.

[phantomg23]

i was going to have them from 1pm to 9pm and then an led bar till midnight