Dim tank lighting during wee hours of the night

[midasman714]

My tank I recently purchased has a couple finnex 24/7 lights. There's a function to keep it on 24/7 with brightness adjusting to time if day.

I've always turned lights off completely when I go to bed. With this 24/7 feature, does anyone think it's a good idea to leave it on overnight? Lighting will be very dim as it's replicating natural moonlight during the late night to early morning hours.

Tank inhabitants are vieja growouts.

 

[Warborg]

I used to have my fish on a nightshift. I turned on the lights at night and off in the daytime. It was dark enough during the day.

 

[TwoHedWlf]

My tank I recently purchased has a couple finnex 24/7 lights. There's a function to keep it on 24/7 with brightness adjusting to time if day.

I've always turned lights off completely when I go to bed. With this 24/7 feature, does anyone think it's a good idea to leave it on overnight? Lighting will be very dim as it's replicating natural moonlight during the late night to early morning hours.

Tank inhabitants are vieja growouts.

I think it's more of a personal preference thing rather than it making an actual difference in fish health or behavior. If you like to be able to get a little bit of a look at the fish when you get up in the middle of the night to pee or whatever, go for it. If not...might as well anyway, It's going to only cost you like 5 cents worth of electricity per year.

 

[A201]

I keep my lunar lights on all night. Doing so keeps the Botia Loaches in a more manageable mode. The African Cichlids appear to do better too. They all still go to their favorite sleeping spots as they would with lights off, but things are calmer. In a total blackout, my display tank sounds like a broken down washing machine. Periodic splashing and thumping against the glass lid. LOL.

 

[RD.]

I had the same results as Stephen years ago, hence I have had an LED night light left on in the fish room for many years. In pitch black, a big fish running into another big fish can sometimes create big problems.

 

[cjdesmit]

I have a Current LED Sat+ that I leave on 24/7 as well. While mine doesn't cycle automatically, I have a custom day and night mode saved that I manually change in the morning and before going to bed. The night mode is a mix of blue and green LEDs and is very dim, just enough to give off a faint glow of light.

 

[jhook]

I have one on my 240g and it stays on the 24/7 cycle. As stated before me, it keeps the fish calmer at night and doesn't really effect them during the daytime. Algae growth has not noticeably changed either from when I used to turn it off at night.

 

[FINWIN]

Big tank has the aquaneat with the led phasing but mine doesn't work unless its in demo mode. So I've set custom settings. M1 is slighty darker and more neutral light than marine / fish settings. M2 is orangish/magenta to simulate dawn. M3 is deep purple simulating late day into twilight. M4 is the dark blue moon light. The smaller tanks only have daylight cool / warm and moon setting. The moon light does seem to minimize loud thumps and splashes that seem to happen at night. I'm convinced that's how my baby O dinged his head and scraped his side.

Plus I can see them moving around in the dark. They definitely seem to settle better and go to their "hidey holes."