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CO2 vs Hours of Light
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CO2 vs Hours of Light - 05-09-2007, 06:49 PM

So I'm now down to 8 hours of CO2 per day with no algae. Is there a rough correlation between lighting duration, intensity, and CO2?

The tank is 75g, heavily planted with 6*54w HO T5 daylight bulbs. I decided to slowly cut down on the hours of full beam on the basis that the sun is not directly overhead for most of the day. I done similar with my reef.

For the last three months I have been running two bulbs for 11 hours and the full six bulbs for only 5 hours. Since the tank is stable I reckon I could cut down to four hours of full light and maybe 5 hours of CO2. Am I chancing it?
  
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