Help with Coralife® Aqualight™ Power Center™

idle0095 · 10-26-2007, 06:53 PM

So i got a free Coralife® Aqualight™ Power Center™ and i would like to know a couple of things. first off i have a coralife aqualight that has one plug for two 10k bulbs and one plug for two actinic bulbs. the Coralife® Aqualight™ Power Center™ can make it so each sets of bulbs will turn on a different times. should i set it to do different times or just all on at once and all off at once? any help would be great.

here are the specs of this Click Here

**Scuba Kid** · 10-26-2007, 07:15 PM

Doesn't really matter. A lot of people who do reef tanks with nice lighting systems set their lights on timers where different lights will turn on at different time intervals to simulate the sun rising and setting.
The daylights look white/yellow and the actinics are blueish. What you could do is set the actinics to go on first, then shortly after the daylights. Then at night the daylights can go off first and shortly after the actinics. This way you get a little form of dawn and dusk. Its really all about aesthetics and personal preferance though. If you want they can go on and off at the same time.

idle0095 · 10-26-2007, 07:16 PM

okay cool thanks for the info. i have them set to go off at the same time but maybe i will set it up to do dfferent things.

10-26-2007, 06:53 PM	#1
idle0095 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Age: 27 Posts: 155 User Feedback: (0)	Help with Coralife® Aqualight™ Power Center™ So i got a free Coralife® Aqualight™ Power Center™ and i would like to know a couple of things. first off i have a coralife aqualight that has one plug for two 10k bulbs and one plug for two actinic bulbs. the Coralife® Aqualight™ Power Center™ can make it so each sets of bulbs will turn on a different times. should i set it to do different times or just all on at once and all off at once? any help would be great. here are the specs of this Click Here __________________ 180 Gallon Oceanic Tank All Wood Canopy Coralife Aqua Light 72" Quad Bulb Fluval FX5 Fluval 405 Dual Sponge Power Heads Natural Substrate Live Plants

10-26-2007, 07:15 PM	#2
Scuba Kid Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: RI Age: 17 Posts: 3,913 User Feedback: (1)	Doesn't really matter. A lot of people who do reef tanks with nice lighting systems set their lights on timers where different lights will turn on at different time intervals to simulate the sun rising and setting. The daylights look white/yellow and the actinics are blueish. What you could do is set the actinics to go on first, then shortly after the daylights. Then at night the daylights can go off first and shortly after the actinics. This way you get a little form of dawn and dusk. Its really all about aesthetics and personal preferance though. If you want they can go on and off at the same time. __________________ Current setups: 1800 gallon koi pond, 10 gallon planted, 150 gallon reef, other FOWLR tanks

10-26-2007, 07:16 PM	#3
idle0095 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Age: 27 Posts: 155 User Feedback: (0)	okay cool thanks for the info. i have them set to go off at the same time but maybe i will set it up to do dfferent things. __________________ 180 Gallon Oceanic Tank All Wood Canopy Coralife Aqua Light 72" Quad Bulb Fluval FX5 Fluval 405 Dual Sponge Power Heads Natural Substrate Live Plants

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