Enough was enough and with hair algae growing like you can not imagine and killing many of my corals I finally removed all of the old dirty filthy sand. I also removed all of my old hair algae ridden LR and placed it in a recently acquired 100Gallon livestock tank. I had accumulated many kinds over the years, marshall islands, fiji, buna, carribean shelf, and other hand selected cherry pieces. I hope to recycle the rock by not having any light over the livestock tank and after some time hooking it inline with my display. I do believe that dilution is the best cure for pollution! I also purchased some new live rock, since the lfs (Gerber's) had the best I have ever seen available and it was 90+% cured. So $500 (cha-ching) later, I am bare bottom, new incredible rock, and corals beginning to grow like mad. Just the polyp extension alone that resulted after the sand was gone made it all worth the work.
So now that I seem to be on top of the hair algae, I am very interested in photoperiod! I do seem to have lots of light, but with the 20,000K bulbs, it is not IMO too much light, but just about right! I would really love to hear if anyone would be kind enough to suggest a lighting scheme for me to follow! Most of my corals are sps, (90% acropora) and I also have VHO actinic supplementation and moon lights. So I would be much abliged if all of you would let me know when you would turn them on/off.
TIA, and thanks for your help,
Wrassta