Describe Your Light Cycle

[jrnannery]

This is great, guys. I appreciate seeing how I can improve the tank's schedule. Post-boiling incident (stupid heater), all the replacement corals are doing GREAT! I've never seen such great polyp extension in my tank. Blues are staying blue, reds are looking good. Now, if I can get that Pink Lemonade in this thing, I'll be looking really good, not to mention Rob's Tri-color.

I adjusted my light cycle to match y'alls more closely, which are of course simulating, to the best of our abilities, the natural lighting they would receive.

Karin, I read up on the SOLs. Looks like they will be running independently of the Apex. This is going to be fun.

[kkiel02]

If you run them with the apex you can adjust the lights online! At least thats what I read today. Now I just need the lights... and the cord from apex. Forgot to order that.

[Europhyllia]

If you run them with the apex you can adjust the lights online!

Sounds very useful ;)
I actually kind of like to stand in front of my tank and *see* the lights...

[kkiel02]

Lol yes of course but remote use, plus the failsafes the apex incorporates, and all the regular features the ai controller comes with- I guess it seems worth the $40 to me. Then again I have a couple big trips setup and I can have something else to play around with while gone! I have to say, at first I was weary of controllers, but have grown quite fond of them now if you cant tell. Oh and you could even have them on battery backup with either controller, if you really wanted to. I need to get these lights...

[jrnannery]

Battery backups will be incorporated. Can't go all out and NOT have em!!

[alton]

Summer for my 300
12pm 160w actinic on
1:30 center 250MH on
2:00 outside 2x250MH on
9:30 outside 2x250MH off
10:00 center 250MH off
10:20pm 160w actinic off

Winter
11pm 160w actinic on
12:00 center 250MH on
1:00 outside 2x250MH on
9:30 outside 2x250MH off
10:00 center 250MH off
10:20pm 160w actinic off

[CoryDude]

120 gallon sps dominant with 440w of vho actinics and 2x250 phoenix 14k de halides:

vho's on from 1030am-1030pm for 12hrs total
halides on from 12pm-545pm for 5.75hrs