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| View Poll Results: Whats your light cycle? | |||
| 7 hours - full daylight |
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4 | 2.96% |
| 8 hours - full daylight |
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13 | 9.63% |
| 9 hours full daylight |
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6 | 4.44% |
| 10 hours - full daylight |
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22 | 16.30% |
| 1 hour dawn - 6 hours full light - 1 hour dusk |
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12 | 8.89% |
| 1 hour dawn - 7 hours full light - 1 hour dusk |
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13 | 9.63% |
| 1 hour dawn - 8 hours full light - 1 hour dusk |
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32 | 23.70% |
| 1 hour dawn - 7 hours full light - 1.5 hours dusk |
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8 | 5.93% |
| Other - Please specify |
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25 | 18.52% |
| Voters: 135. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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I didn't see my choice which is 2 hours morning actinic, 10 hours sunlight and 2 hours evening actinic.
Steve
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My daily light cycle for winter is 3pm to 3am atinics, which is 2 overdriven t5 @ 80w per with ati blue bulbs, halides kick on at 6pm to 1 am and I am running 2x250w hqi ushio 20k.
For summer the atinics come on at 6pm to 6am halides from 9pm to 3 am and the reason for this is because of heat. I generally run my lights really late aswell because I am at work all day and want to see the tank at night, I tend to run the halides longer in the winter and less in the summer... My tank also gets natural light from a window so that helps...
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8:00AM Actinics on
12:00PM MH joins the actinics 8:00PM MH off 9:30PM Actinics off
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My light cycle is forever changing with the daylite hours.. so I don`t have set cycle I have seasons.
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10am: 22k T5 on
12pm: Halides on 7pm: Halides off 10pm: T5 off |
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Possible to expand on this?
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7am to 8am--actinics for dawn effect
8am to 1pm--off. The way my tank sits I have natural sunlight that comes through 1pm to 7pm --full light 7pm to 9pm--actinics for dusk effect |
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10am-1pm UVL Super Actinics
11:30am-1pm UVL 454 1pm-7:30pm 150w HQI 7:30pm-9pm UVL 454 7:30pm-10pm UVL Super Actinics 10pm-10am LED's
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