Can i leave my fish in the complete dark?

[aaronlp]

i was wondering if my fish would be fine without a moonlight on at night. Just the night dark and then obv lights during the day. Its hard for me to sleep with the moonlight lighting up my room hahah

 

[xXxSpyderxXx]

in my nano i never had moon lights and in my moms 55 we dont run moon lights and the fish do perfectly fine

we even have a breeding pair of clowns. so im thinking if the clowns are breeding then no lights are ok

 

[aaronlp]

alright thanks for the help!

 

[xXxSpyderxXx]

alright thanks for the help!

YW :thumbsup:

 

[mr86mister]

Moonlights are usually for show but on larger systems they have said to help with spawning events. Otherwise I see no need.

 

[Eastamherstbias]

My clowns always breeded at 7pm. Is it normally a total darkness thing?

 

[votek]

Tanks did just fine before moonlights came along

 

[aaronlp]

thanks guys!

 

[iamwrasseman]

no moon lights = no problem ,but they look really cool IMO.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I always run an ambient room light- no aquarium moonlights (yet!)

Doing this helps my fish from blundering into the anemone and helps ME from tripping over one of the kids toys when I go for a sleepwalk

 

[low riderr]

they only have one moon light in the wild,and thats not on all the time.they will be fine, they might even like the total darkness.

 

[Gravesj1s]

Ive had tanks in the past and everything was fine without moonlights.

Most people probably use 2 parts of the light cycle ,daylight & dawn/dusk.some use 3 parts whitch add moonlights and a few use the full 4 cycles whitch can likely only be done with a controller.Follows the full lunar cycle to mimic new & full moons varying the intensity in between to resemble starlight.Theres some good reads on what influences this has on fish....but agree not necessary.