lighting schedule

[thefatman]

ok one more quick question, this one regarding lights.

i've had the vho's o nthe tank for a few weeks now, yesterdya i picked up an actinic blue 03 and a 10k daylight.

now i know that i should turn on the blue for an hour before and an hour after the vho's to simulate dusk/dawn. and get them used to the light. but when should i turn on the daylight bulb, at the same time as the vho's?

do i run all four bulbs during the daytime? or just the daylight bulb? do i turn off the blue actinic after the other lights are running? or keep them on all day?

my thinking is this:

8 am actinic blue on
9 am vho super actinic white on
11 am 10k daylight on
6 pm 10k daylight off
8 pm vho super actinic white off
9 pm actinic blue off

is this right, or should the blues and white be off while the 10k is on?

also, should i run my sump light during the nighttime for ph balance? it's only a standard NO 6.5k daylight bulb in a versa hood about 8" higher than the sump.

[Geoff]

looks pretty good to me. that is about what i have. i would leave all the lights on.

i have the light in my fuge on a slightly overlapping reverse schedule. the fuge light comes on about an hour before the all the display lights go out, and goes off and hour after the main display lights start coming one. it seems to take about an hour for the algae to get geared up to doing photosynthesis in the morning.

G~

[thefatman]

cool, thanks geoff!