So tell me... why are moonlights BLUE?

[PokeSephiroth]

I never understood that... I mean... it's more of a dim white, if anything.

Now if companies would go outside on a full moon night and realize it's not blue...

I mean, it's not like BLUE lights make it easier to see your fish at night anyway. So, having dimmed white lights should have the same effect, right? Or...?

 

[DMD123]

I dont have moonlights but I use a white light that act as my dusk/dawn lighting before my main lights kick on/off. A blue light is cool looking but the dim white that I have been using seems to be just fine. The fish are not shocked awake in the morning and they know its time to settle down at night. I have thought about adding a third timer and blue lights but just have not found what Im looking for yet in lights.

 

[fishloverRon]

I do know that blue wavelengths are absorbed by plants and used in photosynthesis. I always wonder if the plants in our ''moonlighted'' aquaria continue to photosynthesize at night when they're left on.

http://www.fish-as-pets.com/2010/09/aqu ... ights.html
This doesn't really answer my question, but maybe help you, Pokie!

 

[Cory]

They're actually blue because that is the color that penetrates water in the ocean, being that there are a lot of moonlight feeding only organisms in saltwater they were designed for that.

 

[PokeSephiroth]

Good to know, at least now I know that there's a reasoning for it being blue.

 

[Chiisai]

Be a rebel Poke... Make a red moonlight strip! Stick it to the man!

 

[PokeSephiroth]

Blood moon.

For my rituals and fishy sacrifices.

 

[fishloverRon]

Red is the other major wavelength band in the spectrum that chloroplasts use to photosynthesize!