Moon lighting

[tammieh]

I'm setting up a 300g (30Hx34Wx66L) peninsula tank. Current lights include 4 Kessil 360WE. I was looking to add some moonlighting that I would love if it replicated the actual moon cycle. We're setting up an Apex system on the tank.

Any recommendations?

 

[Dana Riddle]

Can't help with the programming end of it, but here's an article I wrote years ago:

Aquarium Lighting: Moonlight – A Concise Review of Its Spectrum, Intensity, Photoperiod, and Relationship to Coral and Fish Spawning

Moonlight is thought to play an important role in timing reproductive cycles of many coral and fish species. In corals, lunar cycles set the date of spawning, while the time of onset of darkness fine tunes the cycle and decide the hour and minute (then a release of hormones into the water...

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