Light timers are the easiest most effective way to regulate your fish s night day cycle.
Do you turn betta fish light off at night.
Simply set the timer to turn the light off at the same time each evening and to turn it back on the next day.
Yes you should turn the light off you re never giving your fish a chance to sleep if you don t keep the light 8 14 hours a day that s what i do.
Also a cheap appliance timer may do the trick if your bulbs don t eat up too much power.
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And yes you should turn your lights off on a regular schedule.
Betta fish typically need 8 to 12 hours of light and 12 to 16 of darkness so make turning off your tank light a pre bedtime habit.
And of course the answer is off.
However just like their wild cousins captive betta fish do need to sleep at night.
Now you should have a solid understanding of whether to leave a betta fish light on or off at night.
Too much sunlight can overstimulate your betta causing stress and agitation as well as possibly causing feeding problems.
Always best to leave it running.
Some bettas won t eat at all when stressed by too much light.
So you must turn out the tank lights overnight to replicate the natural day night cycle that the fish enjoy in the wild.
These light timers are probably the most effective and easiest manner of replicating your fish s night and day cycle.
You ll see this stress play out in feeding habits mostly.
Consistent light cycles that replicate daylight and nighttime reduce stress and mimic natural environments.
And the most important things you need to remember are.
What helps regulate that is buying a timer at your local hardware store that does this automatically.
Here is a picture of some.
One becomes dominannt and keeps picking on the weaker one until it dies.
With all due respect guppies4life ive seen you say 16 hours before when advising on light hours 8 10 is about right someone running at 14 16 as ive seen you say will more than likely cause algae problems at some point.
If your betta fish has too much light it can become overly stimulated and stressed.
The easiest way to do that is by turning the tank light on when you get up in the morning and switching it off when you go to bed at night.
You can keep female betta together but you need large tank and a decent group of fish 5 to spead out any aggression.
If you don t want to go this route you can use alarms to remind you each day as to when to turn the lights on or off.
