Can I run moonlights for 7 hours every night?

[ReeferHolland]

Hi, I have a redsea reefled 90. I turned it on today for the first time above the aquarium. I noticed from outside that all the windows at my appartment emit a lot of purple light when its dark outside. Looks a bit strange and its just too much purple light coming from the windows. Its dark at 17.00 here until end of winter. And I dont want my appartment to look like the red light districts next to the other appartments.
The problem is that I'm usually awake at night because of my work situation. I go to sleep at around 04.00 in the morning but I dont want to run the photoperiod during that time.
So can I use the following light schedule on my reefled?:

Start photoperiod:
09.00 (AM)

End photoperiod after 11 hours:
20.00

Start moonlights:
20.00

End moonlights after 7 hours
03.00 (AM)

Note:
I will run the moonlights on max 20% from the reefbeat app and let it reduce intensity to 0% over a period of the last 4 hours of moonperiod. And also use "lunarcycle" in the reefbeat app so its only at maximum intensity (which is 20%) once a month.

I really want to enjoy the corals and fish during the night.... So I hope the moonlights are a good solution

Any advice?

 

[davidcalgary29]

And I dont want my appartment to look like the red light districts next to the other appartments.

Or you could just add some sexy shrimp and a convict tang to match the theme of your naughty lighting.

Your schedule's fine.

 

[Reef.]

If you are going to do that, I would make sure that between 3am and 9am the tank is as dark as you can get it, as the fish need to sleep.
This would give the fish 6 hours of darkness.

I wrap my tank in a blackout blind

 

[ReeferHolland]

Or you could just add some sexy shrimp and a convict tang to match the theme of your naughty lighting.

Your schedule's fine.

 

[ReeferHolland]

If you are going to do that, I would make sure that between 3am and 9am the tank is as dark as you can get it, as the fish need to sleep.
This would give the fish 6 hours of darkness.

I wrap my tank in a blackout blind

I noticed that your theory doesn't have to be true for all fish. I bought two clownfish three days ago, put them in QT with lights on from 12.00 - 00.00. But they dont even care about the light's. During LFS opening times they are active as h***. Exactly after 18.00 they sleep. They get active again early in the morning but its almost 100% dark for the next few hours then. Same goes for when they sleep at 18.00. The lights are on and they just don't care lol.
So I think at least clownfish just follow the sleep cycle they are used to.