Moonlight! Awesome

[rich1515]

I dropped by my LFS today on the way home and the owner (a good friend of mine) hands me a new product that I have not seen yet and tells me to take it home no questions.
Customsealife Moon-Lite
Here is the description:
"The Moon-Lite is another exciting breakthrough. Ot casts a 'moon glow' over your tank creating a beautiful nocturnal environment while consuming less tahn 1-watt of power...."
I was skeptical...UNTIL I HOOKED IT UP. Installation takes literally one screw and a plug in! It is beautiful!
I know I might be the last kid on the block to have something like this but I called my LFS owner on her cel phone and told her to reserve three more one for the other half of my 75 and two for my 110!
If I am sounding like a freak stop me but I thought this was one of the coolest ways to introduce "moon light" effects into my tank for around $100 on my 75 gallon. My LFS charges about $40 for one which covers about 2 ft. of my tank so I can't wait to get the other one!
I tried to take a pic but of course with no light it wasn't that good.

 

[rich1515]

I am not really that worried about it. Most of the corals in my tank are brains of one sort or the other. I have a frogspawn, anenome and leather that I am not really worried if they did spread. On the positive side, my clowns might mate...

 

[shelley&john]

My husband used a strand of large Christmas lights to create moon light over our tank. He cut the strand down to just three lights, and used blue bulbs. The effect is awesome! It casts a very soft light over the tank and makes it really easy to watch what is going on in there.

 

[rich1515]

I tried to find the product on the web but I guess customsealife hasn't updated their product line with this new addition.
I am going to pick up the other three today and try to get some shots of them in action...
One benefit already it might not have worked on my clowns yet but my wife got home last night and told me how romantic the tank looked

 

[krishj39]

Just this week I purchased a 6 foot string of indoor/outdoor blue accent lights. These are like Christmas lights, but the lights are inside a clear tube, so it's more like a rope light. Anyway, it cost me less than 6$, and they look GREAT. While I have to admit it looks a LITTLE less cool than the 200$ moonlight I saw on display at the LFS, I only paid 6$! There are few enough lights that it even gives a shimmer look in the water, which I love and miss out on since I have VHO and no MH. I highly recommend looking into these rope lights for all of you who want moonlighting but can't justify/afford spending 200$ on it.

 

[hookedonreefs]

I did the blue LED thing like Draxx and it looks even better knowing 1. I built it myself & 2. it cost WAY less. I'm sure the premade ones are great, but IMO I'd rather save the money for livestock.
As for coral spawing I agree with Kip that you'd need to replicate mooncycles, but I (personally) question the need for gravitational pull. -Keep in mind this is coming from a beginner -
I've read stuff on spawing corals using mooncycles, but have yet to read the neccessity for gravity.

 

[hookedonreefs]

Excellent call Draxx. Sometimes the simplist things slip past me

 

[fishtanker]

Originally posted by Kipass4130
" I aint never heard of no woman give no man no lovin jus cuz his fish tank looked good"
Adapted quote from movie: Coming to America
lol