LIGHTING QUESTION ? will this kill something in my tank?

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I just upgraded my tank's light with 2-96W Coralife Aqualight 36"
that I got from one of the member her (Thanks Again BY The Way)

Well as you know this light has 1 x 10,000k daylight & 1 x actinic bulb
My question is can I run the daylight bulb during the day and the actinic bulb during the night with out it harming anything in my tank?




****TANK SUMMARY****

Substrate = crushed coral and puka shells mixed 3" deep -( really coloring up nicely with aqua and purple algae)
Live Rock = approx. 50 pounds
100+ brown button polyps. (aka green eye zoos) on about a 1 pound live rock base
1 mexican turbo snail
1 emerald crab
1 coral banded shrimp
1 peppermint shrimp
1 unknown anemone - clear w/ yellow tips only comes out in the dark once light comes on it goes back in rock?
1 aptasia anemone (it just wont die)
3 yellow tail blue damsels
3 yellow damsels
1 condylactis anemone
1 black percula clown
1 serpent star
unknown amount of tiny snails - see them all over every once in a while


filtration

1 Biowheel 200 rated for 50 gallon
2 10 gallon undergravel filter plates(left space in the middle of the tank about 6" for things to grow in the substrate)running on a 20 gallon air pump
2 zoomed powersweep power heads rater for 30 gallons ( broke the rotating part so I could set the power heads in 1 steady direction)
 
There is no reason not to run both at the same time. Or run the actinic for 30 minutes-1 hour, then turn the other one on. Leave both running till 1 hour or 30 minutes before you want the lights out. Then shut down the 10k and let the actinic run till lights out. But if you were asking if you should run the actinic all night long? The answer is no, there should be a period of all ligths off.
 
I should have explained more

My tank is in my bedroom and I have been running the lights through the night and leaving off during the day.. Now that I have alot brighter lights I can see where this will probably be a problem running during the night so I wanted to know if I could run just the actinic at night and the daylight during the day...

Thanks
Joe
 
For the sake of the tank inhabitants there needs to be total lights out period. There needs to be a day and a night. Fish do sleep and there are critters that only come out at night.
 
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