Lighting hours

[blazk]

Well i finally got some new lighting, 4 x t5 blues and 2 x 250w halides with moonlights. I was curious to know what hours and for how long should i run each of these lights for. Eg t5's - 6 hours (10am - 4pm) Halides - 4 hours (4pm 8pm) I have only 1 soft coral in my tank at the moment (a green morph) as seen Here:

and heap of fish and LR.
any help would be appricated.
Thanks for reading

 

[Bifferwine]

That should work fine for the coral that you have. Once you get more light-demanding corals, you can up it to 8 to 12 hours per day.

 

[Smitty]

You could set up a dawn dusk effect...t5's on from 10am to 1pm, halides on from 1pm to 5pm and then t5's back on from 5pm to 8pm...still 10hrs

 

[blazk]

sounds good to me.