Aquapod Lighting

[landonworth]

I just recently set up my 24 gal aquapod and have a questions concerning how to cycle my lighting. It is the 64w compact flourescent lights. (-32W square pin Dual Daylight 10000°K/6700°K Daylight bulb, 1-32W square pin Dual Actinic 460nm/420nm Actinic bulb, 2 blue LED lights, cooling fan). How long to run each/overlaps? Any suggestions on some good literature on nanos would be appreciated.

 

[reefman23]

I like to run the actinics for 30 minutes before and after the daylight bulb. For example...

8:00 a.m- Actinic bulb on, moonlight LED's off
8:30 a.m- Daylight bulb on
7:30 p.m- Daylight bulb off
8:00 p.m- Actinic bulb off, moonlight LED's on

That is an example of the way I used to run my similar dual 2x40 watt Satellite fixture. This effectively creates a "dawn and dusk" effect.

HTH,

Jesse