I will have 100lbs of live rock and I want to know if his is fine? Not the full length of the aquarium but not far from it. 1 daylight 10k and a actinic 10k. I will get a timer and make the lights turn on at 7a.m. But before that, I wake up at 6 for school, so I will turn on room light. Its not that bright. Turn off room light at 7 and timer begins at 7. later at night timer will turn lights off at 7 and from 7-8 I'll have room light on. Led lights from 8p.m. To 6p.m. Will this be a good routine for a FOWLR set up? I also have live sand if that effects anything. The lighting is 24 watt each. Is this enough for LR and LS? Thanks for the help.
Yea I suppose, It would be better if you had better lighting, but a fowlr system doesn't really rely on photosynthetic organisms. You'll have more slime algaes because of the low light intensity but long light hours. I'd cut the hours down from 12 hours, to reduce the algae build up. The room lights aren't a real factor, it's not intense enough to add anything good to the tank. If you float some plants/macro algae near the surface it might be even better. Adding more hours doesn't make up for low intensity; If this were a reef, you'd have to have a lot more bulbs, and higher wattages.
You really should have enough light to light up your aquarium.
your lighting set up will probably cause a lot of algae growth the lighting should be limited to 8 hours each day this means both natural (sunlight) and artificial (both room light and aquarium light) the timer is a good idea for the on/off cycle (i use 2 timers one for morning(white light) and one(blue light) for night)
