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View Poll Results: How many hours a day do you run your lights on your reef tank?
More Than 12 Hours 9 7.83%
10-12 Hours 70 60.87%
8-9 Hours 23 20.00%
7-8 Hours 10 8.70%
6-7 Hours 3 2.61%
Less Than 6 Hours 2 1.74%
I Use Natural Sunlight 2 1.74%
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Old August 8th, 2007, 04:59 PM
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Re: Lighting

Simulate the dust to dawn effect and less of a shock from darkness to full lighting.
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Re: Lighting

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Simulate the dust to dawn effect and less of a shock from darkness to full lighting.
thanks for the fast response..im gonna do that from now on...
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Re: Lighting

I have a Coralife digital timer but I don't know how to set two different daylight times in the same side outlets...Anyone have this timer? I can set the daylights and actinics to come on at the same time, and the lunar light to come on at night, but cannot seperate the two daylight times...

Anyway, 12 hours for me

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Re: Lighting

I have a Coralife timer. I don't know if you have the same model as I do, but for mine, I can only have two sets of times, and they have to be opposite of each other. For example, the yellow outlets are on from 7 am to 7 pm so the blue outlets are automatically set to go on from 7 pm to 7 am.
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Re: Lighting

Stared using lights up to 8 hours as i have only just started my saltwater tank ,not much in there at the moment.Cant wait for the next 12 months.

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