We have a holiday party coming up at our house and we're very proud and excited to show off our successful (knock on wood:grind: ) tank for the first time. I'll be cleaning everything on the day of - but my question is about stressing the inhabitants.
During the peak of the afternoon everything is expanded and happy and gloriously beautiful. Around dinner time our mushrooms have lost half their extension and later near 'lights out' our green star polyp is sometimes completely retracted.
So if I want to leave the lights on LATE during the party (that will probably just be getting going after the tank lights would normally be off), am I going to be stressing out everything.
I guess I know the answer -- yes, I will. But given the foregone reality that the tank lights WILL be on at least for several hours well past the normal cycle, I guess I'm asking for any lessons learned in this area.
Could I turn off the lights for several hours during the day, or early in the evening, then to turn them on later? Would that just be more confusing? (Kinda like a big, nasty solar eclipse.) It would be great if everything would be at its best for our visitors. But then - I have been trying to embrace the fact that the tank is its own reality - not existing to satisfy my asthetic whims.
What say yee? Thanks.
During the peak of the afternoon everything is expanded and happy and gloriously beautiful. Around dinner time our mushrooms have lost half their extension and later near 'lights out' our green star polyp is sometimes completely retracted.
So if I want to leave the lights on LATE during the party (that will probably just be getting going after the tank lights would normally be off), am I going to be stressing out everything.
I guess I know the answer -- yes, I will. But given the foregone reality that the tank lights WILL be on at least for several hours well past the normal cycle, I guess I'm asking for any lessons learned in this area.
Could I turn off the lights for several hours during the day, or early in the evening, then to turn them on later? Would that just be more confusing? (Kinda like a big, nasty solar eclipse.) It would be great if everything would be at its best for our visitors. But then - I have been trying to embrace the fact that the tank is its own reality - not existing to satisfy my asthetic whims.
What say yee? Thanks.