24 hour lighting

[blackbeard]

IS 24 hour lighting bad for coral?

 

[Teddy]

You are going to have all sorts of algae problems

24 hour lighting can bleach out corals, i think

 

[KathyC]

Specifically - what kind of lighting??

 

[blackbeard]

30 gallon long pc 2 10,000 k 96 w. I thought this may grow coral faster.

 

[ming]

As far as I know, its not bad, but corals can only absorb so much light per day. They also go through a normal period of releasing co2 at night when the lights are out.

But in your case, substituting longer photo period is not a replacement for weak lighting if thats what you're trying to achieve.

 

[KathyC]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you have any actinic lighting at all that you can leave on an hour before and after your regular lighting cycle? Moonlights overnight are suppodedly good for your fish as they then don't have to fear any predators (hey, they don't know they are actually in your living room, I don't think evolution taught them about that yet...)

Your regular light cycle should be in the neighborhood of about 8 hours a day of the full blast lights going ..others will chime in with various times I'm sure, but 24 hours a day is a definite no-no!

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Corals and fish need to sleep too

 

[blackbeard]

thanks

 

[ming]

Yes, and fish need to sleep too. But with moon lights as Kathy mentioned, fish sometimes like to :flirt: at night too

 

[blackbeard]

On another note I see that evertime I cut a acan polyp in have it makes new ones on the side and heals very fast. is that a normal way to grow the coral?

 

[ming]

Corals generally reproduce under one of 2 conditions.

Fear of being extinct
or
Very Happy

I'll let you choose which one you think you're inducing.

 

[blackbeard]

fear is good for coral if they give more polyps for free and the other way is slow and costly. just like we run the world today fear makes money.

 

[KathyC]

Fear also causes stress...and at some point it catches up with you...

 

[blackbeard]

Look you do it that way so all of you can have the nice coral you ask for. Your way is good but then coral would cost alot more. and we dont need to take from the sea.

 

[noelskii]

go green! leave the lights off for 24hrs a day!

 

[blackbeard]

yes nacturnel coral