lighting questions

[ijvicente]

I am sorry to be asking so many questions , but i really want to do things right.

Can anyone please tell me if there are lights that you can put to make like a dawn and dusk?

Because i dont want to have full lights and no light.

I have seen in in this thread http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=105890

What is the blue lighting?

Maybe i can have a lighting to make a moray more active?

 

[saltank]

what a lot of reefers do is setup their lighting so a lower light, such as blue actinic, comes on first for a period of time (perhaps couple hours) before the daylight(s) turn on. The daylights will be the first to turn off, then the actinics will turn off - this is an attempt to simulate dawn, day, dusk,night; I have also added moonlights which come on a little bit before my last 50/50 bulb turns off, the moon light then stays on all night to simulate the night time light.

Hope that helps. BTW, it is all driven by automatic timers.