How long do you keep you lights on for?

[chungimo]

try to keep with my normal sleep schedule, but being in college it gets off quite a bit.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

30g, a few plants but not enough to be called planted, some Loaches, a Ctenopoma, a Flying Fox, 2 Plecos... I leave the lights on from when I wake up to when I go to sleep. I like to have good algae growth for the Flying Fox and the Plecos.

 

[greenterra]

No plants. Lights on timers and set to run from 5.30pm to 9.30pm. No algae problems.

 

[knifegill]

125g, Oscar, sunfish, plants and a pleco, 8 hours a day. I do get some algae but I'm okay with that.

55g, Ball of mollies, !Chinese Algae Eater!, Giant otto, Giant Columbian ramshorn snail, pond snails in small numbers, Brachyrhamdia Meesi, Striped Raphael, deformed baby longear sunfish, two angelfish, plants, light 12 hours a day to keep up algae production for the inhabitants. Still almost no visible algae thanks to al the glass-scraping fools in there.

 

[johnny potatoes]

10 Hrs.

 

[Robbo43]

I turn on the light when I wake up and off when i go to sleep.

 

[bud]

I have 19 tanks running and for the most part I turn the lights on in the tank when I am viewing.In the winter I turn the lights on from 5pm tell 9pm but in the summer really not on much.I my fry tanks I leave the lights on 24/7 for the first few weeks

 

[Triton]

I use nerite snails to control my algae. These guys are great, always planning on getting more.

 

[ozwald]

Interesting that not everyone uses timers. I think they're essential.
Good to know that I'm about right with the 10hrs of light.