Comming Out Of The Dark

Another way to enjoy your tank’s beauty is to add a little night light.

Night Lights

Night lights not only allow  you to observe your fish, corals and inverts in a natural way at night,  but they help your scavengers who come out at night looking for a meal. These night light help your hermit crabs, shrimp and other clean up crew members  survival in seeing and finding their food.

We give high marks to Currant Lunar Link  Light System. The system is expandable, so if you want to add more light you don’t have to get a whole new system. You just buy the amount of lights

Night Lights

you want. We started with four units on The Reef Aquarium DVD, A Set Up & Maintenance Guide Demo Tank. For about a year or so this was fine. However, over time, all lights dim.  When we changed out one end, we noticed a very large difference between the old and the new.  So we would recommend you really looking at your night lights every 6-12 months to see if they need replacing. Now we have seven night lights on the demo tank and it is brighter than when we first started the tank.

green carpet florescing

We chose to use the blue light for aesthetic reasons. However,  one real treat we noticed when put in the new lights was the amount of  corals and anemones that were florescent under the blue light. Our green carpet looked even more magical at night that it did in the day! There is truly an “OH, WOW” factor added to your fish tank.

Florescent Favites

Of course, some corals don’t fluoresce at all, while others much more so. Here you can just see where around the eyes of this Favites coral there is some fluoresce.

While with this Pink and Green Tip Torch

pink & green tip torch

is very highly fluorescent. The tips of this coral move around a great deal, even at night. We had to use a tripod and time exposure to get this and many of these pictures for this article.

In conclusion, night lights are a inexpensive way to improve both the beauty and health of your tank. If you are thinking about a color for your night lights, blue might give you another magical moment to enjoy your tank.