Porcupine Puffer Lighting
- slowwrx137
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Porcupine Puffer Lighting
I'm acumulating all of the equipment needed to setup my puffer tank and bought the SunDial T5HO light from Current USA. It has 2 10,000k daylight bulbs, 2 460Nm actinic bulbs, 4 led lunar lights, and timers to control the lighting. I'm assuming I just set the timers and the lighting runs 24 hours a day. My question is how long do each of these lights need to run for a porcupine puffer and for the live rock?
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pufferfreak
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Re: Porcupine Puffer Lighting
Usually you run your daylights/actinic bulbs for 10 hours a day and the lunar for a couple hours in the morning and at night. It helps mimic the natural reef lighting.
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thekarens
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Have had dogface, porcupine and valentini puffers in the past. - Location: Houston, Tx
Re: Porcupine Puffer Lighting
If you're not keeping corals it doesn't make much difference on the lights, you could go with NO lights without corals. Nice light set up though 