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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% | 
| Voters: 135. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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|  Light Cycle 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. 
				__________________  My 70 Gallon build: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=66478 My Mandarin Paradise: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72762 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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|  lights 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 
				__________________ Back in the saddle again . running a borrowed 65G peninsula while i get my 48"x48" centre overflow cube built.   | 
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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 
				__________________ 60" 120G project-DONE!!!! | 
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|   Just wondering... what are you growing in your tank?  Have you noticed any slowing of growth with only 5 hours full spectrum? 
				__________________  My 70 Gallon build: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=66478 My Mandarin Paradise: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72762 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. 
				__________________ 60" 120G project-DONE!!!! | 
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|   1.5 hrs leds 1 hr actinic 11 hrs full lights 1 hr actinic 1 hr leds. 
				__________________ 360 gallon sps reef, 180 gal sump, bubble king supermarine 300, 4xmp40Wes, 2 x 6215 tunze waveboxes, 4 ghl mitras 360 Reef Tank | 
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|   I run a 2hours dawn, 5hours daylight and 2 hours dusk... and I suddenly feel like im not giving my tank enough light reading these numbers... 
				__________________ In today's world of nearly instant everything and what is exceptional today is only par tomorrow. My Reef is the only place where I must wait, and do so with glee. | 
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|   Dawn/dusk actinic on at 8am, off at 12:00 am. Halides on from 1:30pm to 9:00pm. 
				__________________ Brad | 
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