UV lights at night?

[Swine]

I've made a sweet LED lighting setup for my tank through rapid LED. I have one more driver/channel to use and want to put moon lights in.

Are moon/blue lights ok for all fish/coral/anemones? Also I was thinking about putting in some UV lights to make the colors pop more at night.

They are not true UV. They are violet UV LEDs - Violet UV LEDs - Rapid LED

Moon light LEDs: Royal Blue Moonlight LED - Rapid LED


How intense is ok with night lighting?

Cheers!

 

[Steven R]

IMO i would just leave it at a low output blue since most fish and coral will be ( sleeping ) at that time of day but if you would like to see some more at night go for it.

 

[GHill762]

Even very dim blues bother nocturnal creatures. Supposedly a very dim red is the only thing that doesn't disturb nighttime creatures..

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[GHill762]

Also I think you want to stay away from uv as moons.

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[fyrfytr]

I know that in humans the red light does not effect night vision...that is why a lot of police cars, and now fire trucks too, have red lights or red filters on their interior dome lights

 

[Swine]

Hmmm is it bad to have the lighting cycle far off from actual day time hours? The room that it is in certainly does get lit up during the day.

I was looking into moon lights so I could see what was going on when Im home later at night.