Lighting hours

[BMahura]

Interested to see how long everybody keeps their main lights on for

[MKLKT]

12hrs on/12hrs off. 4x 39W T5 each bulb is a different spectrum. Tank also gets natural sunlight from behind some days so that does extend the light period.

[Bblinks]

10 hours on 3x250w and 12 hours on 4xt5ho.

[Aquattro]

Voted 7, but it's actually 7.5 hours.

[Myka]

For a more accurate response, you may have wanted to differentiate between T5s and halides on the poll as people tend to treat them a bit different.

On my 90 the halides are on for 6 hours, and supplemental for 13 hours. (This was my vote answer)

On my nano the T5s are all on 13 hours.

[Lance]

T5's: 12 hours
Halides: 8 hours

[Madreefer]

T5's 12hrs
MHs 6 hrs
Seemed to have pretty good results.
Now switched over to LEDs so I cant really vote with those as now on a scheduled 24hr program.

[Reefie]

12 Hours - 2 Vertex Illumilux (453nm Blue & 7K White) LED modules & 3 Ecoxotic Stunner LED strips (453nm Blue & 8K White)

24 Hours - 2 Ecoxotic Stunner LED strips (453nm Blue) Moonlights

However, I'm thinking of dropping the main lighting down to 10 hours a day. I'm battling a massive GHA outbreak at the moment.

[Zarstar]

blues 7am-11pm, whites 8am-930pm, no hair algae, no diatoms, the anemone has tripled in size in a year.

[365seasons]

My power compacts turn on at 11am, my halides kick in at 12pm and run until 6pm, then my power compacts turn off at 7pm.