Moon Light question
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lion_crazz
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I don't know, it would depend on how it looked over the tank. That was my problem with the Odyssea moon lights. I always thought that they seemed like they could be too bright. I have 6 blue LED's over my 210, and I dim them mostly every night as well.
chipmaker
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I'm gonna venture an opinion and say there is way too many of them. On average one LED per 20-24 inches of tank length is about average.......Sometimes "cheap" is not really what is best.......LED's are dirt cheap to buy, easy as heck to assemble, and in all reality you can get buy without soldering if that scares you.......
Neat thing about DIY moon lights is you can simply add in a UV led light and it makes things so much more different, espeically coraline algae. If it looked good under actinic or lunar lights its awesome under a mix of moon/ lunar and some UV led's.
Neat thing about DIY moon lights is you can simply add in a UV led light and it makes things so much more different, espeically coraline algae. If it looked good under actinic or lunar lights its awesome under a mix of moon/ lunar and some UV led's.
chipmaker
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Lunar / moon is like coackKLM says its really just asthetics and does nothing for the tank inhabs.
However its still ligh shinning on the inhabs and it is not a true representaion of allcritters actions. Best way to view a tank at night and see stuff that still stays hidden with moon lights is to use red light........but reg is kind of trashy looking and certainly not natural looking, for asthetics
However its still ligh shinning on the inhabs and it is not a true representaion of allcritters actions. Best way to view a tank at night and see stuff that still stays hidden with moon lights is to use red light........but reg is kind of trashy looking and certainly not natural looking, for asthetics
chipmaker
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Lunar / moon is like coackKLM says its really just asthetics and does nothing for the tank inhabs.
However its still ligh shinning on the inhabs and it is not a true representaion of allcritters actions. Best way to view a tank at night and see stuff that still stays hidden with moon lights is to use red light........but red is kind of trashy looking and certainly not natural looking, for asthetics
However its still ligh shinning on the inhabs and it is not a true representaion of allcritters actions. Best way to view a tank at night and see stuff that still stays hidden with moon lights is to use red light........but red is kind of trashy looking and certainly not natural looking, for asthetics
chipmaker
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To give the best color look for a led that puts out light in the 460-472nm range. The view ing angle is also important and most places its hard to find a decent viewing angle in the nm range that will work right. The wider the viewing angle the more coverage it gives. Narrower (less) view angle is better suited for deep tanks. The 60 to 110 deg angles are probbaly best suited. Light diffusion through the viewing angle can be increased by slightly scugging the led's lens with steel wool or very fine sand paper. (400 grit or finer)