Night mode - yay or nay?

[FishyFishy!]

I was thinking of adding a little LED light in there timed with my lights.

I think it would be a little easier on the fish too.

[iamfrontosa]

I use night mode as a way to cool down my powerheads. Also, oceans seem to be calmer at night time, so I think fish and corals prefer it that way.

[gregzz4]

For what it's worth, I programmed my MP10s through their online stuff - ReefLink.
At night I run them 25-50% of their daytime settings with varying speeds.
I feel it's good for the fishies/corals to have a break from the daytime chaos.
As Raied mentioned, they need rest just as we do.
With this in mind I also only run the moonlights for an hour after lights out 'cause I'm too tired to look in there at night anymore ...

[e46er]

this is a good question I will be following along.
I recently hooked up my 4-RW8s to my apex and they run 60-100% during the day and run 30-40% during the night ( numbers are ballpark but pretty close i cant remember exactly)
with my new 250G DD i ordered 2 RW15s i figure ill keep them both on the same side on a wave mode and have my other 4 RW8 along the back wall maybe 12" off the sand as I have my snapper return with 4 outlets spaced evenly along the back near the surface.

I havent noticed a difference either way in my corals, slowing them down at night but its only been a couple months running off the apex.
I may run the rw15s off the apex and run the 4 rw8s on their stock controllers on random mode as it seems to be alot more random than what the apex can do ( or what the operator can set it to do) i cant seem to get a full random mode going just 2 different %s.

[Ram3500]

Let your kids sleep turn your wave makers off. Corals will be fine if any thing it will give them a chance to feed don't over think the flow nature needs time to chillaxe

[ComfortablyNumb]

The waves may calm down at night...but the current/tides dont care if its dark. Current and tidal flows don't really drop very much at night in nature.

[spedly]

I turn them down a little. During the day my powerheads pulse from 0-100% with some timed "storm modes" to stir up debris. At night I change the pulse to 0-90% and disable the storm modes. When I was in Mexico in February I noticed that the waves/current seemed to slow down a little at night. But like ComfortablyNumb said, not very much.