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10-23-2007, 08:23 PM
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 Lights on and off Can someone tell me what the cycle of light needs to be? I have 65w? with 50/50 power compacts. Blue lights come on in the morning, then white light is added after how long in the mornings?.... and both those stay on all day? Then the white lights go off (after what time period) leaving the blue (antianic?) lights on for how long before they should go off for the night leaving the moonlighting on? Sorry, I'm not a technical name person! But you get the idea dontcha?  |
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10-23-2007, 08:34 PM
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| Re: Lights on and off You got the cycle right. Remember your mimicking a natural day on that beautiful reef in Fiji so give your loved ones the direct sun in the middle and let the blue be your reefs morn and evening light. As for the time frame a total of 8-10 hour is what I use but all systems are different. |
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10-24-2007, 06:06 AM
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| Re: Lights on and off Have your daylights run for 8 hours & your blues coming on about 2 hours before the daylights & then going off 2 hours after the daylights.
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