I had mine off when I was fighting Dinos, but have since turned it on. I have a mix of the blue and white on the XR30. I like the way it looks at night. Things seem to be doing well.
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When I ran it on my old Hydra's, I ran 3% red, 2% green, 1% royal blue (or blue I can't remember), which gave me a less jarring ghostly white which didn't feel as bright as the blues alone. It also mimicked pretty closely the spectrum of the moon itself. You may give it a try and see how you like it...I ran the moon phase on my hydras. But have stopped except on my predator tanks. Not sure why, other than the fact that it is so bright in the room with 4 tanks and 12 different hydras showing even low blues.
Mine runs all night.. the apex turns them on any where from 7pm to 9m and they’re on when I get up in the morning.. it runs the full moon cycle according to Neptune.Do the people who use moonlight, run it all night? Do they follow the actual lunar cycle? I have hydra64s,
I have a lsm module on my apex and run Neptune’s moon lights it works in unison with the actual lunar cycle.
I am noticing that if my moonlight is off and therefore corals closed up earlier, than they are more big and energetic during the day.I run the moonlight cycle on my hydras, set at 3% deep blue max. The corals do react to it, not closing as tightly on fuller moons. I have no idea if it impacts health or functioning in any material way.
Interesting… the Neptune moon lights are blue but very weak! People have gotten corals to spawn under them… I mean it’s gotta be zero par lol.. not sure if they have white strings or not. I just got into this myself about a week ago and I have neptunes set up which is a 3 string blue over a huge foot print.Blue moonlights in general are a very, very bad idea. Blue light is the light that can disturb circadian rhythm most easily. Expressed in simple words, it keeps organisms awake.
In fact real moonlight isn't blue at all, it is less blue than sunlight. Look at the full moon. Is it blue? No it is rather pale yellowish.
The impression that the landscape is blue under moonlight is an artifact created by human sight. The weak light activates only the rod cells in the eyes which create a kind of black-and-white image which we sense as bluish because rods are most sensitive for blue-green light.
I mean, when you're talking about light hitting the earth's surface, sure... Also, organisms with eyes that occupy the land and air are most definitely disturbed by blue light. However, the water filters out most of the red, yellow, and green light that happens to penetrate the ocean. So there is far more blue, purple, and ultraviolet light, making it to a reef 40 meters down, than red, yellow, and green light. In my mind, this problem only becomes worse with less intense light. I haven't read any studies about the effects of blue light on aquatic species' circadian rhythms, but I would guess that they're adapted to blue light and, therefore, filter most of it out (or their brains have adapted to utilize it in a different way than our brains do up here on the surface)... I could be wrong, though...Blue moonlights in general are a very, very bad idea. Blue light is the light that can disturb circadian rhythm most easily. Expressed in simple words, it keeps organisms awake.
In fact real moonlight isn't blue at all, it is less blue than sunlight. Look at the full moon. Is it blue? No it is rather pale yellowish.
The impression that the landscape is blue under moonlight is an artifact created by human sight. The weak light activates only the rod cells in the eyes which create a kind of black-and-white image which we sense as bluish because rods are most sensitive for blue-green light.