Lighting schedule

The Red Sea Max S500 comes with 10 T5 Red Sea Reef Spec fluorescent tubes and blue moonlight LED's.

• 5 Reef-Spec BlueWhite 15000K 54W
• 3 Reef-Spec Actinic 22000K 54W
• 2 Reef-Spec Pink 54W

They are controlled with two timers. One timer to switch the front and back section on or off. And one timer to switch between the mid section or moonlight LED's. It's difficult to set the time equally on both timers, so it's better to use a programmable controller.

Starting in the front, I ordered the T5 tubes like:

Front

1. BlueWhite
2. Actinic
3. BlueWhite
4. Pink

Mid

5. BlueWhite
6. Actinic

Back

7. BlueWhite
8. Pink
9. Blue White
10. Actinic

The current schedule looks like this:

10:00am 2 T5's mid section on and moonlighting off (2 T5's total)

12:00pm 2 T5's mid section off and 8 T5's front and back on (8 T5's total)

02:00pm 2 T5's mid section on (10 T5's total)

08:00pm 2 T5's mid section off (8 T5's total)

10:00pm 2 T5's mid section on and 8 T5's front and back off (2 T5's total)

12:00am 2 T5's mid section off and moonlighting on

This way every T5 tube will have the same burning time and there's some sort of simulated sunrise and sunset.