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Reefstick · 03-14-2006, 12:50 PM

I always wondered this one.

I've herd many different answers to this one. "How long do you run your daylight bulbs?" I personally run mine for 10 hours only because I thought it made sense, being that most of the corals are from the tropics. (But I don't know what the proper time period is)

My light runs like this: VHO's (4x110W) 10:30am to 10:30pm MH's (2x175W) 11:30am to 10pm.

03-14-2006, 12:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
Reefstick Limpet Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Aurora, CO Posts: 125 View Gallery Karma Komment	How long do you run your daylight bulbs during the day? I always wondered this one. I've herd many different answers to this one. "How long do you run your daylight bulbs?" I personally run mine for 10 hours only because I thought it made sense, being that most of the corals are from the tropics. (But I don't know what the proper time period is) My light runs like this: VHO's (4x110W) 10:30am to 10:30pm MH's (2x175W) 11:30am to 10pm. __________________ 12 gallon reef + 75 gallon reef + bad seals = flooded basement. Take the remainder of the living corals, fish & rock subtract all sanity and you have an extremely full 30 gallon reef with a crying owner.