Hi all, just a quick question regarding my current lighting. I have converted my aqua nano 60 tank from trop to marine. When I got the tank it had an led lamp upgrade which has the option of whites and blues and just blues although this is changed via a switch and not automatic or timed via an app. I only want to put in soft corals to start with for the next few months. My question is what time length would you look at having the lights on and would you have blues and whites or just blues on. I have tried to research this but everyone seems to have lighting that changes automatically via an app.
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First a question, do you have 1 or 2 power cords to the light?
If you have 2 you can get 2 cheap timers for HD or Lowes and run them that way. And in that case I'd run the blues for an hour before and an hour after the white and blues together. But this isn't a big deal, it's more for our feelings about having a dawn and dusk... which the corals really don't care about one way or the other! And I'd run both for 6 to 10 hours, whatever suits your viewing schedule.
If you only have one cord, I'd run blues and whites because I have doubts you would get enough PAR with just blue. BTW, just to be sure, do you know what PAR is? Not trying to be a smart alec here, just trying to understand your level of knowledge.
The zooxanthellae (algae) that lives inside your coral needs a minimum of 4 to 6 hours of full light and some can do photosynthesis for up to 8 hours. More than that is not harmful, but it really doesn't do much good for the coral either.
I hope that helps? And I'll follow along as well.
If you have 2 you can get 2 cheap timers for HD or Lowes and run them that way. And in that case I'd run the blues for an hour before and an hour after the white and blues together. But this isn't a big deal, it's more for our feelings about having a dawn and dusk... which the corals really don't care about one way or the other! And I'd run both for 6 to 10 hours, whatever suits your viewing schedule.
If you only have one cord, I'd run blues and whites because I have doubts you would get enough PAR with just blue. BTW, just to be sure, do you know what PAR is? Not trying to be a smart alec here, just trying to understand your level of knowledge.
The zooxanthellae (algae) that lives inside your coral needs a minimum of 4 to 6 hours of full light and some can do photosynthesis for up to 8 hours. More than that is not harmful, but it really doesn't do much good for the coral either.
I hope that helps? And I'll follow along as well.
Cheers Ron, I have a rough idea regarding PAR. The light has only one power cord with a timer attached to the plug that goes in the wall. with my old trop set up I was running the light from 3pm in the afternoon until 11 at night. I will just keep the timer as it is on full whites and blues then go from there.
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That should work OK.
