That's right, we would. Do NOT run actinics all night. The actinics are only for adding more blue spectrum to the lighting to simulate the blueness of the natural reef environment and to make the colors show up better. ( well, to put it simply ) This is fine during the daytime when the corals need it, but worse than useless at night. In fact, those little LEDs are for simulating the phases of moonlight for coral breeding, and they shouldn't be run every night, either. The idea is to use them with a controller which is a computerized calendar, and this makes the moon lights wax and wane over a 28-day cycle to mimic the patterns of real moonlight, which is what controls coral spawning. Running them all the time will only confuse the corals.
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