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Re: continuous lighting or timed ?
Kent,
I am curious these tanks are they all connected to one timer or many ?
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From: "Kent Carpenter" <kcarpen1 at rochester_rr.com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:10 PM
Subject: RE: continuous lighting or timed ?
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> Jose Perez wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am curious to what type of lighting setups people use here. Do you
light
> > the tanks for 8 hours, 12 hours or do you leave the lights on 24 hours ?
> > Pros and Cons?
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> I keep all my planted tanks on timers set to stay on for 14 hours. I have
>
> had little algae problem this way but make sure I have a large enough
> biomass
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> of vascular plants to take up enough nutrients to keep algae in check.
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> Most...not all....of my Aphyosemions grow comfortable with a lighted tank
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> as long as there is plenty of top cover. The colors of some of these males
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> that have become comfortable in one of these tanks rival any saltwater
> species.
>
> Kent Carpenter
>
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