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Unread 07/23/2014, 02:11 PM   #1
DirtinLa
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I need basic help with lighting please

I am new to salt...

I have a Nuvo 16 with a skkye 24 LED light system and a skimmer

the tank has been setup appox 8 weeks and I stocked it about
a week ago after carefully doing everything correctly.

Currently I have 1 velvet damsel 2 emperor crabs 4 snails 2 hermit crabs

1 have a pod of Zoe's 2 devil's fingers and 2 mushrooms

I have only lost 1 or 2 snails and everything else is healthy and vibrant!

The skkye 24 has 3 sets of LED lights and a zoomed timed light strip;

the skkye has a non-adjustable moonlght that just plugs in a socket

it has a dimmable blue light that plugs in seperately

and a dimmable white light that plugs in seperately

HERE IS MY QUESTION:

When do I turn the lights on and off (each one) including he moonlight (or do I)

Do I run the white and blue simutaneously?

Should I plug them into the zoomed timed strip to turn on and off automatically?

My LFS told me not to blast the Zoe's with the led's as they might bleach out... How much is too much???

For now I basically turn the blue and white on in the morning and kind of intensify it to about 3/4 full before I leave for the office and slowly turn it down in the evening...

I keep the lunar(moon phase) on 24/7...

I do not know right from wrong please help!

Thanks in advance

-=Fred=-


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bump please


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