Lunar Light - stand alone

[DmitryB]

I have Hydra Edge lights on my 170 gallon and the only moonlight it has is white. It's ugly. I hate it. (Radions give you the option of white or blue, and you can mix them as you like.) I'd love to get a stand-alone moon light that also follows the lunar cycle, but can't find anything online. Neptune has lunar lights, but for Apex, which I won't have. Does anyone know of anything like that?

 

[Saltyreef]

I have Hydra Edge lights on my 170 gallon and the only moonlight it has is white. It's ugly. I hate it. (Radions give you the option of white or blue, and you can mix them as you like.) I'd love to get a stand-alone moon light that also follows the lunar cycle, but can't find anything online. Neptune has lunar lights, but for Apex, which I won't have. Does anyone know of anything like that?

Aqua illumination fixtures have the option to choose what spectrum you can run as moonlight. I loved their programming and app when i had them.
I used UV channel as moonlight lol.

 

[DmitryB]

I have Hydra Edge lights on my 170 gallon and the only moonlight it has is white. It's ugly. I hate it. (Radions give you the option of white or blue, and you can mix them as you like.) I'd love to get a stand-alone moon light that also follows the lunar cycle, but can't find anything online. Neptune has lunar lights, but for Apex, which I won't have. Does anyone know of anything like that?

Aqua illumination fixtures have the option to choose what spectrum you can run as moonlight. I loved their programming and app when i had them.
I used UV channel as moonlight lol.

Hydras are AI, but I don't see this option there. Am I missing it??

 

[Saltyreef]

Hydras are AI, but I don't see this option there. Am I missing it??

It probably has different programming than the older hydra 26 and such

 

[Saltyreef]

With the old hydras and maybe the old version of the app (dont know if they've updated it to work differently), you could just add whatever channel you wanted to run all night and then toggle on lunar phases for the program to initate waxing and waning

 

[DmitryB]

With the old hydras and maybe the old version of the app (dont know if they've updated it to work differently), you could just add whatever channel you wanted to run all night and then toggle on lunar phases for the program to initate waxing and waning

So I just realized that yes, this works on the Hydra Edge too, which is neat. You don't have to use the Moon light, choose any light you want at whatever intensity and turn on the Lunar phase feature - and the lights will follow the phases of the Moon. One issue though is for Moonlight one obviously wants something not bright. So I chose 1% Royal Blue and 1% UV. But when you enter into a new phase of the Moon, the light can't handle that little illumination, so it just goes out. It can't do 0.5%.