Lighting??? - Aquarium Advice

AkainePSP · 09-27-2005, 02:36 AM

We have a 75 gallon tank with what I believe is considered [acronym:f8b0e289c7="Very high output fluorescent"]VHO[/acronym:f8b0e289c7] lighting. It's got 2 blue lights and 2 white lights. At night we have been turning off only the white lights and leaving the blues on. Ahould we be turning them off too?

One more thing how long should the lights be on daily?

DragonForce · 09-27-2005, 02:49 AM

12 hour light cycles, and yes turn all the lights off, you can also look into some moonlighting that you can purchase on ebay for 30 bucks. Good luck!

**Devilishturtles** · 09-27-2005, 06:17 AM

I agree. Definitley turn the actinics off. If you want illumination, moonlighting is the way to go. You can find any number of moonlight setups on the net.

09-27-2005, 02:36 AM	#1
AkainePSP Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 45 Images: 6	Lighting??? We have a 75 gallon tank with what I believe is considered [acronym:f8b0e289c7="Very high output fluorescent"]VHO[/acronym:f8b0e289c7] lighting. It's got 2 blue lights and 2 white lights. At night we have been turning off only the white lights and leaving the blues on. Ahould we be turning them off too? One more thing how long should the lights be on daily? __________________ 44 Gallon Corner Tank 40 lbs Live Rock small bunch of caulerpa 3" Live sand and crushed coral 250 Skilter- supposed to work as a skimmer too Tankmates: 1 Coral Beauty, Pair of False Perculas 8 blue hermits, 2 turbo snails, 100 Nassarius Snail, 1 elephant slug, 1 camal back shrimp, 1 Blood Shrimp.

09-27-2005, 02:49 AM	#2
DragonForce Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Southern California Posts: 925 Images: 1	12 hour light cycles, and yes turn all the lights off, you can also look into some moonlighting that you can purchase on ebay for 30 bucks. Good luck! __________________ 37 [acronym="Gallon"]gal[/acronym] all glass 50lb [acronym="Live rock"]LR[/acronym] 3' fine sand bed 1x Orange Stripe Prawn shrimp goby, 1x sixline wrassemated pair of true percula clowns, 1x CBS shrimp, 2x peppermint shrimp, 1x pistol shrimp, 1x tiger tale [acronym="Sea cucumber"]cuke[/acronym], ~20+ snails, ~10+ hermits, 1xserpent star. green Bubble coral, hammer coral (8 heads!) ,various Zoos,green finger leather, green star polpys ,[acronym="Mushroom coral"]shrooms[/acronym] 175w 10k [acronym="Metal halide light"]MH[/acronym] 28w actinic [acronym="Actinic lighting"]03[/acronym] 2x maxi jett 1200 Prizm skimmer (modded) Hagen powerfilter(for running carbon 24/7) nano arctica chiller

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