Lets talk lighting

[JustManson]

Hi everyone. Hope you don’t mind my very basic question and I’m sure there is quite a bit of debate on the topic.

My question is basic lighting.

I have a quad odyssey T5 hood with a built in timer.

I have 2 ATI coral plus and 2 ATI Actinic lights.

I just don’t know if all 4 should be on at once. Should I set the 10k on then bring on the Actinic and then lastly I have 8LEDs that are basically for night.

Can you give me some pointers on timing the lights,? How much? Should they be on for X amount of hours ect ect ect.

Much appreciated!

 

[Crabs McJones]

Hi everyone. Hope you don’t mind my very basic question and I’m sure there is quite a bit of debate on the topic.

My question is basic lighting.

I have a quad odyssey T5 hood with a built in timer.

I have 2 ATI coral plus and 2 ATI Actinic lights.

I just don’t know if all 4 should be on at once. Should I set the 10k on then bring on the Actinic and then lastly I have 8LEDs that are basically for night.

Can you give me some pointers on timing the lights,? How much? Should they be on for X amount of hours ect ect ect.

Much appreciated!

All depends on what corals you're keeping and what kind of par output your light fixture has. Most reefers do an 8 to 12 hour light schedule. You could have the blue leds come on first then the t5s and then the t5s off with leds still on and then leds off for nighttime.

 

[mjlash22]

On my first tank when I had a T5 light, I did the LED's at night for a moonlight effect, started with the blues (actinic) as a ramp up and down, and had the actinic plus the coral for the peak. So basically I ran 3 hours with only actinic, then 4 hours with both, then another 3 hours with just actinic, then turned the T5's off and went to LED's until schedule started over again in the morning.