New Light Really Brings Out The Marking On These Fish

[star4]

I bought a nice soft blue light for my paracyprichromis nigripinnis because they have fry at the moment. The overhead lights scared the fry at feeding time so I though this softer light would be better for them and they all seem to be enjoying it more. Its a shame my camera wont focus properly under this light because the neon markings really show up making them really pretty.
 

 

 

 

 

[nic1]

Wow! They look like they belong in the avatar film

 

[yinyangpete]

I've always been curious about scientific studies on how fish (and birds) see the world so differently by utilizing wavelengths our eyes can't perceive. I'm left to wonder how beautiful they seem to themselves, LOL. Light (or its absence) drives everything. 

 

[DreamertK]

I have a blue and white light which I especially appreciate when I take pictures of my fish. It really brings out the blue mating colors of my peacock gudgeons.

 

[sawickib]

I've always been curious about scientific studies on how fish (and birds) see the world so differently by utilizing wavelengths our eyes can't perceive. I'm left to wonder how beautiful they seem to themselves, LOL. Light (or its absence) drives everything. 

You know what messes you up? When you think that mantis shrimp can see 4 more colors than us, and that its practically impossible to even imagine what they see.

 

[bluesword23516]

Awesome! The fish look great under that light! 
 

 

I've always been curious about scientific studies on how fish (and birds) see the world so differently by utilizing wavelengths our eyes can't perceive. I'm left to wonder how beautiful they seem to themselves, LOL. Light (or its absence) drives everything. 

You know what messes you up? When you think that mantis shrimp can see 4 more colors than us, and that its practically impossible to even imagine what they see.
 

Its hard to imagine, isn't it? Some cool my friend told me, is what if we all see different colors but they all have the same name to us. For example, what if my version of blue is really your color of pink? Your color of the sky might be different than mine, but because we were taught that the color of an object is a certain color we assume its the same for everyone. What if??

 

[Ch4rlie]

I have had blue lights on my main tank when i first set it up ages ago.
 
At first I kinda liked it and made the colours weird on my threadfins, after about a month or so, decided i didn't like it anymore. So i took it down. Think its very much a personal preference choice for these blue lights for tropical setups. 
 
Although seems a decent idea for fry if they're not liking the normal lights.

And yes, its very hard to take decent pics with these blue lights on for some reason

 

[star4]

It is only a temporary light sadly while the fry grow a little and get more confident. That is if no more appear before then lol

 

[Gruntle]

The mantis shrimp has 16 sets of colour receptors, compared to our three. I'd say they can see a lot better than most other living things on the planet.
 
Plus they're cute little murder-machines.

 

[star4]

Need to switch back to the plain white light, all 3 of the females are now holding!!!
 
Mood lighting lol