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Ok so this might be a silly question, but how much is to much actinic light?

April 26, 2017Actinic light Ok silly

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Ok so this might be a silly question, but how much is to much actinic light?

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I am a huge fan of your site and you guys have helped me so much in the past, but I have search high and low for this answer and have not found a definite answer. I have a 40 breeder with star polyps, some fish, mushrooms, long tentacle anemones, carpet anemones, and live rock. All water parameters are fine, but I’m not sure if I am over doing it with my actinic lighting. Will it hurt my livestock if I leave my actinic on 24hrs a day? I have all other lighting on a 10hr timer. I’m sorry I forgot to mention I run 2 t5 10k/ 2 460nm actinic during the day for 10hrs. The timer switches off the t5 and one actinic then switches on the lunar led’s and o