Mil, I apologize for being snippy. Yes, it was late at night, and I had a long weekend of work staring me in the face, but that's not a good excuse. To clarify the bumping around thing, it's not a roughhousing kind of bumping around. For instance, my biggest fish, one of my female swordtails, when first aroused in the mornings, will just seem a bit tipsy and clumsy. She'll do things like put her mouth down as if picking out of gravel, and seem to hit it harder than usual and bounce back up, but not in the normal, controlled way (kinda hard to explain)... differently than during the day. She'll bump her nose into driftwood when swimming by it. She'll get still again for a few moments, then begin moving again. The first time I saw this, I thought she was getting sick, but in time realized this was morning behavior.
I tried to get pictures of them in the lunar lighting, but my camera is a pretty old digital and isn't able to capture the images in lighting that low.
What hit me wrong was that it seemed you were saying I was having problems resulting from doing something obviously very wrong, when the way I see it is that there have been no major problems. I was simply wondering what others experiences with lunar lighting are like and what kind of schedules they keep. And mostly, whether others have fish that actually rest with the lunars on. My own schedule is a very irregular one, and yes, I want to make sure my fish are on a regulated, healthy schedule. From what I've read, day/night cycles and rest are just as important to them as to humans. You're right that your first post wasn't rude in the least, and I probably took your tone wrong in the second one.
And I agree, the day/night cycle is important, that's why so many people use moonlights. I've heard that it can help with spawning in some animals(mostly corals).
