Those both look really cool. If they both have the same growth effect on corals, then I would get the second one. Do you know if it has settings for moonlight, normal, etc?
I just put four of the plain white and blue fixtures on my 210 and they are awesome. Much quieter than my old fixture. No moonlight setting but I just bought a cheap set of blue rope LEDs and taped them inside my canopy for moon light. I like to let my tank run dark at night unless I have company over.
Yeah I knew that I just love the look. I'll just get some cheap ones to put inside the canopy. But are you supposed to turn them off eventually, or can the moonlights run all night? That sounds like a stupid question... I mean, the moon is on all night
but I'm asking just in case.
Okay sounds good. I guess I'll put it on a separate timer to turn off around 11 no matter the brightness, since it really doesn't matter as a light source. Ah the excitement is killing me. I need to scrape together a bit more money for this tank.
The only thing I have noticed between running my moonlights and blacking out the tank would be that my anemones stay out if I keep the moonlight on and since I have started blacking out the tank at night anemones haven't moved and have almost doubled in size. So it may be coincidence but that just what it seems like is going on in my tank. BUT I also have a saddleback clown that hosts the nems so that may be the reason for the growth as well. Like Mr.X says it's purely for personal aesthetics and I've actually seen better results from a dark tank at night.
That's interesting. I will definitely black out the majority of the night anyways, because we aren't up in the room it will be in past 11 (that's on weekends
) so I can get the best of both worlds!
