Ok, so if you have way too much light and you cut the amount of time the plants get the light do you negatively affect their growing because the duration is lessened?
For now I am running my only lamp, twin TO5 on my twenty raised about 6 inches from the water. I'm only going about 7 or 8 hours otherwise I think i would be in algae hell. I will be lowering the amount of light so i can run them for 12 hours. But for now am i hurting the plants by cutting down the duration?
Yup. More light for less time discourages algae with no ill effect on plants even below 8 hours. However, if you have WAY too much light as you say you can cut intensity (say by blocking some % of the light with tape or window screen) and then you can extend to 12hours. Too much light is an easy fix. Too little light plus too long a photoperiod as an attempted fix just grows algae.
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