Moonlighting

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Most of the LED fixtures currently available have a blue tint low lumen moonlight option. I tried it a few years ago and then couldn't see any benefit...is it for the fish? ...for me when I'm snoozing too?

Do you use the moonlight circuit and if so, why?

On a related note duanes duanes is there anything you've noticed about the prevalence or intensity of nightime moonlight that differs considering where you are now as opposed to nearer the Great Lakes? I'm guessing it's likely less intense where you are due in part to high humidity and cloud cover(?)
 
Trouser Bark said:
Most of the LED fixtures currently available have a blue tint low lumen moonlight option. I tried it a few years ago and then couldn't see any benefit...is it for the fish? ...for me when I'm snoozing too?

Do you use the moonlight circuit and if so, why?

On a related note duanes duanes is there anything you've noticed about the prevalence or intensity of nightime moonlight that differs considering where you are now as opposed to nearer the Great Lakes? I'm guessing it's likely less intense where you are due in part to high humidity and cloud cover(?)
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I’ve never seen a benefit to it on my freshwater systems other than being able to see my nocturnal fish .
I run a full sunrise, high noon, sunset , moon light on my reef. I don’t know if there’s a benefit to it from experience, but from everything I’ve read it’s good for corals, so I roll with it
 
For any light I can program I run the blues for a bit. Not sure it does anything for them, but I think it looks nice.
 
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Joshuakahan said:
I’ve never seen a benefit to it on my freshwater systems other than being able to see my nocturnal fish .
I run a full sunrise, high noon, sunset , moon light on my reef. I don’t know if there’s a benefit to it from experience, but from everything I’ve read it’s good for corals, so I roll with it
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Is your marine fixture one of the high zoot models with a PAR or PUR rating? I'm guessing that such specialized fixtures might target specific benefits but it's the run of the mill cheesy freshwater fixtures that I have. They're not expensive in comparison to the stuff the marine guys use and I can't help but think those blue tint LED's might just be culled product from the chipset growers such that they produce a super low lumen/watt efficacy and might be more useful from a marketing standpoint than anything else.
 
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Trouser Bark said:
Is your marine fixture one of the high zoot models with a PAR or PUR rating? I'm guessing that such specialized fixtures might target specific benefits but it's the run of the mill cheesy freshwater fixtures that I have. They're not expensive in comparison to the stuff the marine guys use and I can't help but think those blue tint LED's might just be culled product from the chipset growers such that they produce a super low lumen/watt efficacy and might be more useful from a marketing standpoint than anything else.
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I’m running kessil A80 tuna blue on the reef. I’m sure they’re rated, but I just know they look nice and my corals are growing lol They’re a little pricey, about $175 a light including the gooseneck, but that’s cheap by reef standards
I also run some kessil tuna suns on my African cichlid tank, mainly cuz I like the shimmer.
But when I had a full FW fishroom, I used cheap Chinese strip leds with the white/blue and other than looking nice, I don’t think the blues did anything.
 
I can't figure out how to control the moonlight setting on my Home Depot shop lights...
 
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Trouser Bark said:
Blue tint safety glasses.

You rocking the old school incandescents in a shroud?
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Lol, I do still have a couple but they're not in service. Still using several fluorescents though, waiting to upgrade to LED but too cheap to do so as long as they still work.

I'm leaping...or at least stepping gingerly...into the 20th century...while everyone else is a quarter of the way through the 21st. :)
 
In my out door tanks without artificial lighting its either so dark (and the tannins don't help) I can't see the fish, or light enough to see them.
There's never really prizmal hue change, other than light tea brown on sunny days, to black if its cloudy.
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I did get some straight blue LEDs thrown in with the tanks I bought used, but when I tried that color, that spectrum looked so unnatural to me, I didn't find it appealing, and never used them.
To me anything such as that blue, or any other light shade, or blue even bright white substrate is too artificial for me.
 
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