Entertainment

[Crabs McJones]

I'm curious to know if anyone modifies their lighting schedule for special events. Say you have a house full of people and it goes on late into the evening. Do you override your schedule to keep the tank lit up for viewing purposes for your guests? or do you let your lights turn off on it's normal schedule?
Personally I've always let the lights turn off.
Let me know below :)

 

[TheHarold]

I have a physical button on my tank that turns on radion actinics (blues) for 30 minutes. It connects to apex, which controls Radions vía WXM. So much fun IMO

 

[Barrett]

I always let them turn off on there normal schedule. Now if I could just get the rest of the lights in my house to turn off at the same time maybe everyone would know it’s late and time for them to go home.

 

[sfin52]

I do just because people like looking at the tank. My wrasses still go to the sand at the reg schedule

 

[Bpb]

I let the lights run their normal schedule. Though I will admit some disappointment when the lights go down when people are enjoying it. We don’t entertain much these day’s though with the kids being the age they are

 

[ScottR]

I don’t have nemos in my DT so no one really cares to see the coral. No special entertainment lighting for guests.

 

[Arthacker87]

I'm a show boat lol I'll run till 3 am!!! Haha I kid ill run em and extra hour maybe 2 at most. Shouldn't hurt ;Cat

 

[Arthacker87]

An* not and

 

[sp1187]

I don't invite people over.
:p
my lights run 12:30pm to 11:30pm so it's a non issue.

 

[Arthacker87]

Mines 9 to 10 with just blues 8 to 9 and 10 to 11 dunno if over kill but seems to work lol

 

[Auquanut]

The grand kids know when the lights go off. I can't resist "Just a little longer Papa?" Doesn't happen often, and hasn't seemed to hurt anything, but yeah. I'm a pushover.

 

[ScottR]

Now that I think of it, I’ll go to fellow reefers houses and they’ll immediately crank up their lights to showcase their reef. I don’t blame them. But I’m not a showboat and I prefer to keep everything timed so I seriously don’t touch anything.

 

[45ZoaGarden]

I usually let mine run the schedule. If people are standing in front of the tank enjoying it, I’ll set it to manual so they can get their fill.