lilirose
I recently bought Fluval LEDs, the kind with the Bluetooth app, for all four of my tanks. I'm wondering if there's a colour of light (I have the choice of pink, blue, cold white, warm white, and pure white) that I can use as the overnight light without encouraging algae.
I know it would be best to turn the lights off entirely at night, but I tend to stay up very late and like to be able to see what's going on in my tanks even at 2AM. I also bought these lights (perhaps foolishly) so that I wouldn't have to manually turn them off and on or use a timer. I didn't realise that you couldn't easily have two different photoperiods until they were bought and set up.
The default night light is blue, but a few places online say that blue is what algae like best. I've currently got them set to 1% pink at night, but I've no idea if that's any better.
I know it would be best to turn the lights off entirely at night, but I tend to stay up very late and like to be able to see what's going on in my tanks even at 2AM. I also bought these lights (perhaps foolishly) so that I wouldn't have to manually turn them off and on or use a timer. I didn't realise that you couldn't easily have two different photoperiods until they were bought and set up.
The default night light is blue, but a few places online say that blue is what algae like best. I've currently got them set to 1% pink at night, but I've no idea if that's any better.