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all I have is 2 clowns and a banded coral shrimp for now.

 

My light is programmed to shut off completely at 10pm. should I leave a small amount of light on or turn if off completely?

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all I have is 2 clowns and a banded coral shrimp for now.

 

My light is programmed to shut off completely at 10pm. should I leave a small amount of light on or turn if off completely?

doesnt matter, you can do moon lighting like some people do, but for clowns and shrimp it doesnt matter

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i personally don't use moonlights, i tried it for a month or so, never saw any advantage, only saw that some of my corals feeder tentacles or sweepers weren't coming out, meaning they still think its daytime, and my clowns seemed to be more enticed to jump out with a moonlight....

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i personally don't use moonlights, i tried it for a month or so, never saw any advantage, only saw that some of my corals feeder tentacles or sweepers weren't coming out, meaning they still think its daytime, and my clowns seemed to be more enticed to jump out with a moonlight....

 

Most corals feed at night, so it's fairly normal behaviour for feeders to be out.

If the light is to bright the corals will stay puffed up and fully extended like during day light hours. That's when you have problems.

As for the argument of does it benefit your tank to have moon lighting......... that's a very debated subject and open to interpretation.

 

I personally have a controller with a moon phase simulator, so the moon lighting goes from new moon (no light) to full moon (max level I set so as not to mess up the corals) and back down to new moon over the course of a Luna month.

I do this because in the wild lots of animals (particularly oceanic ones) use the Luna cycle to time spawning etc. So as well as simulating sunrise and sunset I have a Luna cycle to try and simulate real ocean life for my tank inhabitants.

 

The debate is over is this necessary to promote spawning and general health in coral and inverts. People have managed to captivity breed marine animals for years with out the use of moon simulation. But I do observe different behaviours in my tank inhabitants through out the Luna cycle.

No lighting at all over night won't cause any problems either.

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Most corals feed at night, so it's fairly normal behaviour for feeders to be out.

If the light is to bright the corals will stay puffed up and fully extended like during day light hours. That's when you have problems.

As for the argument of does it benefit your tank to have moon lighting......... that's a very debated subject and open to interpretation.

 

I personally have a controller with a moon phase simulator, so the moon lighting goes from new moon (no light) to full moon (max level I set so as not to mess up the corals) and back down to new moon over the course of a Luna month.

I do this because in the wild lots of animals (particularly oceanic ones) use the Luna cycle to time spawning etc. So as well as simulating sunrise and sunset I have a Luna cycle to try and simulate real ocean life for my tank inhabitants.

 

The debate is over is this necessary to promote spawning and general health in coral and inverts. People have managed to captivity breed marine animals for years with out the use of moon simulation. But I do observe different behaviours in my tank inhabitants through out the Luna cycle.

No lighting at all over night won't cause any problems either.

 

What kind of light and tank do you have just out of curiosity? I always liked the idea of having something really natural like that. Even if there was no real benefit to the tank I'd still find it interesting and dynamic.

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What kind of light and tank do you have just out of curiosity? I always liked the idea of having something really natural like that. Even if there was no real benefit to the tank I'd still find it interesting and dynamic.

 

All DIY, click my signature for my not very up to date build thread.

I'm running 3 arrays over a 3X2X2 tank. Over kill but they're future proof as I can upgrade the tank and just adjust how I hang the arrays.

I also DIY'd a controller. Each colour on each array is individually controllable if I wish so I can have up to 12 channels plus the moon light channel that is independent (currently haven't set my controller up for this and am controlling my 4 colour channels over all 3 arrays together) so to control this many potential channels I went down the arduino route and am currently using a version of Jarduino, but I am hoping to get hold of and upgrade to robo-tank as more of the features I want from the controller (such as storm effects, and doser control) have been implemented already with robo-tank, I haven't had the time to be able to learn C++ code well enough to rewrite and create code for my current controller to do all I want.

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All DIY, click my signature for my not very up to date build thread.

I'm running 3 arrays over a 3X2X2 tank. Over kill but they're future proof as I can upgrade the tank and just adjust how I hang the arrays.

I also DIY'd a controller. Each colour on each array is individually controllable if I wish so I can have up to 12 channels plus the moon light channel that is independent (currently haven't set my controller up for this and am controlling my 4 colour channels over all 3 arrays together) so to control this many potential channels I went down the arduino route and am currently using a version of Jarduino, but I am hoping to get hold of and upgrade to robo-tank as more of the features I want from the controller (such as storm effects, and doser control) have been implemented already with robo-tank, I haven't had the time to be able to learn C++ code well enough to rewrite and create code for my current controller to do all I want.

i look like a punk for buying reefbreeders value fixtures ahhah, but seriously i love DIY anything, ive spent hours and tons of notebooks filled with plans and calculations.

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