What are the benefits of moon lighting?

[salttanklife]

I just started running the moonlights on my tank last night. I've got the Maxspect Razor r420r. Moonlighting is done by setting my 1st and last setpoint to 0% whites/1% blue. I started this tank a little over 2 months ago and always blacked it out at night. I noticed this morning that some corals never closed up overnight like zoas and a hairy mushroom. My dragon soal favia didn't have his feeder tentacles out as well. I'm thinking that my light is still to bright at 1% blues because I've ran moonlight on other tanks I've had with different lights without this problem.

I guess my question is should I just go back to being blacked out or is having them on really something good for the tank?

 

[Wilsoni]

I'd say it's purely aesthetic. By having a lunar cycle set then it could be beneficial by imitating nature with it's intensity fluctuation. But running them from lights out to when your lights come on in the morning at the same intensity would possibly be less than ideal for your photoperiod IMO. (Especially if your fish and coral aren't displaying their regular nightly feeding response)