Deem Yourself To Be Creative?

[Rorie]

Ok, time to get your thinking caps on, and picture this....as i cant get a photo just now

I have a large, long tank. On the left, i have one tall column like rock. In the middle another single tall rock, just not quite as large, then on the right, i have a big bit of hollowed out bog wood for my fish to swim through.

I am looking at moonlights, and found these, which look so cool considering the other options. I will get THIS set of three, and plan to light up my tall objects blue (like moon lights).

BUT, the question then is, do i also get THIS to put a horizontal beam of light across the aquarium too? I love the red one, looks fiery! BUT, will it look tacky with the red and the blue? The image they have on their website with the various colours looks tacky to me. I want my aquarium to look sleek and modern.

So, opinions!

 

[Laura.p]

I like just the one colour.
I used to have led spotlights in the old tank.

 

[Rorie]

I would def get just one colour from each LED, non of this disco light style stuff! Its a fish tank, not a christmas tree

I too am now thinking i will just go for the three spotlights, blue of course. Also, because i am going to have 'grass' on the bottom of my aquarium, so i think the red beam may look a little silly.

Now, i wish this ammonia would hurry up and do its thing so that i can start getting creative!

 

[Mikaila31]

Yeah not my thing I guess. I'm all for normal moonlights, but spotlights are really tacky and expensive...

 

[moochy13]

it will look more like moonlight if the light is coming from above the tank. i was tempted to try red light, as i read the fishes colour spectrum cannot see red, so they think its pitch black when in fact youve got red lights on. emabling you to see fish that only come out at night. my fish realise when the moonlight is on.

 

[FishFanatic13]

it will look more like moonlight if the light is coming from above the tank. i was tempted to try red light, as i read the fishes colour spectrum cannot see red, so they think its pitch black when in fact youve got red lights on. emabling you to see fish that only come out at night. my fish realise when the moonlight is on.

really thats intresting about they can not see red

 

[moochy13]

yeah pretty sure i read it on here, i might be wrong so worth checking, but i dont think i imagined it

 

[saltynay]

Red is the first frequency of the light spectrum to be blocked by water so I know deep water fishies can't see it but I would of thought shallow water species e.g. many small tropical fish can as they stay near the surface.

Thinking on from this a red betta still flares at his reflection so therefore can see red as he himself is red and thus reflecting mainly red light. It may be some species of fish can't see red as well as other colours and a red belly piranha has counter shading with red so there must be a reason why red is chosen. It would be an interesting experiment.