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jonnybravo22 · 09/13/2010, 08:18 PM

btw do you keep the lights on at night for moonlights?

i have started turning the lights completely off at night b/c i was worried that I've been bombarding the corals 24/7 nonstop w/ light, even though i had the lights down to 1 or 2% as moonlights.

i started to think (and maybe read somewhere) that total darkness is helpful for corals to recovery from a day of being bombarded with PAR.

09/13/2010, 08:18 PM	#149
jonnybravo22 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,128	btw do you keep the lights on at night for moonlights? i have started turning the lights completely off at night b/c i was worried that I've been bombarding the corals 24/7 nonstop w/ light, even though i had the lights down to 1 or 2% as moonlights. i started to think (and maybe read somewhere) that total darkness is helpful for corals to recovery from a day of being bombarded with PAR.