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View Poll Results: Whats your light cycle?
7 hours - full daylight 4 2.96%
8 hours - full daylight 13 9.63%
9 hours full daylight 6 4.44%
10 hours - full daylight 22 16.30%
1 hour dawn - 6 hours full light - 1 hour dusk 12 8.89%
1 hour dawn - 7 hours full light - 1 hour dusk 13 9.63%
1 hour dawn - 8 hours full light - 1 hour dusk 32 23.70%
1 hour dawn - 7 hours full light - 1.5 hours dusk 8 5.93%
Other - Please specify 25 18.52%
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Old 01-30-2011, 08:12 PM
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Just looking to see what the most popular light cycle is.

I am running:

1 hr blues (dawn)
7hrs Full light
1.5 hrs blues (dusk)

Looking to see what has worked for others.
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I wonder... does anyone care enough to read signatures if you make them really small? I would not. I would probably moan and complain, read three words and swear once or twice. But since you made it this far, please rate my builds.
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Old 01-30-2011, 10:30 PM
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i run 12 on 12 off right now once i finnish doing my new lights it will be 1hr dawn 10 hrs day light 1 hr dusk 24 hrs moon lights
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I run my MH for 10 hours and instead of actinics I run 50/50 PCs for dawn and dusk. The PCs are run from the seasonal cycle of my Apex so they run for 1- 11/2 hours before and after the MH.
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1.5hrs dawn
8hrs daylight
1.5hrs dusk
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3hr dawn
5hr full daylight
2hr dusk
then total darkness....... lol
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3hr dawn
5hr full daylight
2hr dusk
then total darkness....... lol
Just wondering... what are you growing in your tank? Have you noticed any slowing of growth with only 5 hours full spectrum?
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I wonder... does anyone care enough to read signatures if you make them really small? I would not. I would probably moan and complain, read three words and swear once or twice. But since you made it this far, please rate my builds.
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I have nothing but SPS in my tank. I am running a 6x54w Ati powermodule and am getting great growth a PE. I read somewhere that sometime less is more when it comes to lighting and I have been very pleased with how my tank has responded to it. I will try to find the article.
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still playing with my vortex-plan on dusk and dawn and settings as they would have in indonesia
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6 hours full light.
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Other..

10am - 22K T5s
1pm - Halides on
8pm - Halides off.
10pm - 22K T5 off.

So I guess that's 3 hours dawn and 2 hours dusk, 7 hours day grow.

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