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02/25/2007, 04:49 PM
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Photo period for refuge w/ cheto
I will be getting my lighting for my fuge tomorrow. Please give me some advice on the photo-period. Is it the same as the display? I have heard about doing it opposite but I do not remember why. I guess some people run it 24 hrs?
P.S. This will be a display fuge where my eventual seahorses and mandarins will go, if that makes any difference.
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Semi-aggressive mixed reef w/ shallow sand bed 96x30x27 310gal custom acrylic w/ ext. "fail safe" overflow 125gal sump/cryptic fuge w/ 6" DSB 3 400w Plus Rite 20k MH in Lumembrights 2 250w Plus Rite 20k MH in spider reflectors VHO actinic supplementation 2 Tunze wave boxes 2 Tunze 6060 in Tunze Rocks 2 Tunze 6125 Reeflo 250 skimmer Hammerhead return on OM 4 way Aqua controller lll Leviton power panel Deltec Eco-Cooler Randy's Two part 6.5 kw generator |
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02/25/2007, 04:58 PM
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I run my fuge lighting 24/7 using a Lights of America compact flourescent fixture. Works well. The reason why they run at opposite times is because of the ph factor. At night with the main tank lights off the ph will drop, so keeping the fuge light on the algae is suppose to keep the ph higher.
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02/25/2007, 05:13 PM
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Will running lights 24/7 give the same pH stabilizing affect?
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Semi-aggressive mixed reef w/ shallow sand bed 96x30x27 310gal custom acrylic w/ ext. "fail safe" overflow 125gal sump/cryptic fuge w/ 6" DSB 3 400w Plus Rite 20k MH in Lumembrights 2 250w Plus Rite 20k MH in spider reflectors VHO actinic supplementation 2 Tunze wave boxes 2 Tunze 6060 in Tunze Rocks 2 Tunze 6125 Reeflo 250 skimmer Hammerhead return on OM 4 way Aqua controller lll Leviton power panel Deltec Eco-Cooler Randy's Two part 6.5 kw generator Last edited by virginiadiver69; 02/25/2007 at 06:08 PM. |
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02/25/2007, 06:09 PM
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Semi-aggressive mixed reef w/ shallow sand bed 96x30x27 310gal custom acrylic w/ ext. "fail safe" overflow 125gal sump/cryptic fuge w/ 6" DSB 3 400w Plus Rite 20k MH in Lumembrights 2 250w Plus Rite 20k MH in spider reflectors VHO actinic supplementation 2 Tunze wave boxes 2 Tunze 6060 in Tunze Rocks 2 Tunze 6125 Reeflo 250 skimmer Hammerhead return on OM 4 way Aqua controller lll Leviton power panel Deltec Eco-Cooler Randy's Two part 6.5 kw generator |
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02/25/2007, 06:29 PM
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I wonder how many other people run the lights on their fuge 24/7??
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02/25/2007, 06:43 PM
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i run my lights 24/7 on my fuge. on other tanks i have run my fuge lights the same as the tank lights and had no issues.
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reef tanks are such a headache yet i keep coming back to them. Current Tank Info: 40 gal sps tank (36"Lx15"Dx18"H), dual 175 mh lights w 15k iwasaki bulbs, 20gal sump, bubble magus nac6 skimmer, blue line hd external return pump feeding the tank through two 1/2" penductors, two koralia 1 powerheads + more on the wish list. |
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02/25/2007, 06:47 PM
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I used to but my chaeto began turning brown. After doing some reading around the board, this seems to be a common issue. It seemed that eight months to a year of running the fuge light 24/7 is when the bulk of people, including myself, began noticing the browning of the chaeto. Some countered this by adding iron to the tank. But I, followed other recommendations and I switched to running the fuge light ten hours at night and everything greened back up and is doing well.
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02/25/2007, 07:21 PM
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IMO, I run 14 hours, opposite light cycle to that of my main tank. I read somewhere that you get more growth when your macros have a dark cycle opposed to a 24-7 cycle. It works for me, my ph, and my chaeto started at the size of an orange, and now the size of 2 softballs. I also have green grape, I know they say it goes sexual when not lighting 24-7, never had a problem here, and it has grown like mad, as has my prolifera. BTW, I light my 20 gallon long with 135 watts of PC's....
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02/25/2007, 07:46 PM
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Thank you everybody for the info. I think I will give the opposite light cycle method a try and go from there.
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02/25/2007, 10:04 PM
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I have my tank set on opposite times, and I got great growth from the chaeto and the grape calps. Also the pH always remained steady between 8 and 8.2
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02/25/2007, 10:27 PM
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