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    After seeing some of the other aquariums, I see that people will mix the actinic lights with their standard lights and that the actinic lights work almost as a "blacklight" in that they really bring out the glowing colors. The question is, can fish or coral even detect actinic lights? Do they even know that they're on?

    I would like to have a "night light" of sorts. Something that I can turn on to see my fish and coral at night, but not have to worry about algae growth or bleaching. A light that could theoretically be left on 24 hrs a day without harming or stressing the system.

    Is there such a thing? Or am I just describing precisely what actinics are.

    Thanks

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    Blue LEDs. My girlfriend's nano has built-in nighttime blue LEDs and some of the corals in there fluoresce beautifully at night...
    A.J.

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    Yup, get the blue LED version, make sure you get one with the power adapter (the $15.99 ones), and then you can daisy chain as many as you want of the ones without the adapter from it (the $12.99 ones). I know that River City (a MAAST sponsor) has some of these in stock (or did the last time I was there, at least).
    A.J.

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