zkirby
10-11-2009, 11:58 AM
Hello everyone. I have a question about the lighting in my Biocube 29. I just upgraded to the nanocustoms 4.36 kit which takes my lighting from 2x36watt 10000k bulbs to essentially 4 bulbs which I chose 2x36watt 10000k's and 2x blue actinic bulbs. I also upgraded my moonlighting to the R2 kit which gives me 2 of the origional led bulbs and 10 more in the R2 kit.
I plan to keep 2-3 fish, an anenome, clean up crew, and a few easy to keep corals as I'm just getting this tank up and running with livestock after it's been up for a year with just live rock, cleanup crew, and my fair share of green hair algae outbreaks which I hope I'm done with :).
My questions are as follow; Should I run all 4 bulbs during the day, all day? Or should I run them in seperate stages?
Do the Blue Actinic bulbs provide my livestock with beneficial rays or is that what the 10000k bulbs are doing, I ask because if they are just for looks, I find myself asking why I upgraded to 4 bulbs.
My day lights (10000k's and blue actinics) are set to come on at 08:00AM and turn off at 6:00PM and the moonlighting is set to be on opposite. Is this a good time cycle?
As for the moonlighting, are these led's just for looks or are they actually poviding my livestock with beneficial rays as well?
Any other commens or thoughts on this setup will be greatly appreciated. I know I asked a ton of questions, but I thought it would be best to get them all out at once.
Thanks in advance.
zkirby
I plan to keep 2-3 fish, an anenome, clean up crew, and a few easy to keep corals as I'm just getting this tank up and running with livestock after it's been up for a year with just live rock, cleanup crew, and my fair share of green hair algae outbreaks which I hope I'm done with :).
My questions are as follow; Should I run all 4 bulbs during the day, all day? Or should I run them in seperate stages?
Do the Blue Actinic bulbs provide my livestock with beneficial rays or is that what the 10000k bulbs are doing, I ask because if they are just for looks, I find myself asking why I upgraded to 4 bulbs.
My day lights (10000k's and blue actinics) are set to come on at 08:00AM and turn off at 6:00PM and the moonlighting is set to be on opposite. Is this a good time cycle?
As for the moonlighting, are these led's just for looks or are they actually poviding my livestock with beneficial rays as well?
Any other commens or thoughts on this setup will be greatly appreciated. I know I asked a ton of questions, but I thought it would be best to get them all out at once.
Thanks in advance.
zkirby