Red LED moonlights?

[Demm]

does anyone have any red led moonlights in their tanks at all? i want some for mine, i heard that the fish cant see the red light and your able to view them without them seeing you.

is there anywhere that i can get some red moon leds? i've looked all over and cant seem to find any...or is it just a stupid idea to get them in the first place?

[MissT]

The whole "fish cant see the red light" thing is a bit over dramatized. The pods and a lot of the inverts cant see the red which is usually what people are looking for when they talk about using the red lights at night on the tank. I'm putting a tank together right now, and I'm going to have blue lunar lights on a timer, but I did order a set of red LED's to mount in the canopy for mantis/fireworm/bristleworm hunting that I can turn on whenever.

[Demm]

are they LEDs that have a DC plug or are they ones that you have to wire yourself? if it is ones with a DC adapter then where'd you get it from and how much?

[MissT]

They're LED lunar lights made by Current:

http://www.current-usa.com/lunarlight.html

I ordered them through River City Aquatics.

[jroescher]

Just because I'm curious,
How do you know what color lights fish and pods see or don't see?

[MissT]

haven't asked 'em

It's based on people going deep sea and watching how things react. There's a fish that emits a red "light" and it feeds on like 6" pods that live in the depths of the Ocean. It can see the red copepods because they light up in the red spotlight. This is the way this particular fish has evolved to see the pods where there is no light. The pods in the videos don't appear to see the fish coming so it's believed they cant see the red light.

[Demm]

ok cool thanks alot for the info missT!

[apedroza]

Fish can in general see in color, but are less sensitive to distinguish between colors then we are. They are waaay more light sensitve than humans.