Moon efect

[apple]

I learned on biological agriculture, that it seems that as moon affects the sea movements, affects too the water inside the plants/animals and has a great influence too on the behaviour of plants and animals. Moths, for example and a lot of invertebrates seem to need the moon light and it´s influence to know this way
Actually the influence isn´t only on the light of the moon but on a more invisible and stronger way, making the sea moving a lot on the beaches,when we can see high tide and low tide, and some plants that grow more when we have full moon or some animals that put more eggs, because more will hatch, on that period.
So if by what is said above, moon may take a big role on snails behaviour, I just don´t know if I should put some moon light( by using a lamp or so on the room that varies it´s light according to it´s phases and changes. If I should do this, should I have to imitate the real conditions of the moon on my country, just imitating it with the light, or it isn´t necessary to follow that pattern? This last one, is quite unlikely my favourite, because some more invisible forces makes more changes, than actually the light itself... Maybe I should program the light according to the real phases of the moon... With that, does the light affect really the snails as the gravitational influence? Should we put both together?

[Paul]

apple said:

Actually the influence isn´t only on the light of the moon but on a more invisible and stronger way, making the sea moving a lot on the beaches,when the we can see high tide and low tide, and some plants that grow more when we have full moon or some animals that put more eggs, because more will hatch, on that period.
So if by what is said above, moon may take a big role on snails behaviour, I just don´t know if I should put some moon light( by using a lamp or so on the room that varies it´s light according to it´s phases and changes. If I should do this, should I have to imitate the real conditions of the moon on my country, just imitating it with the light, or it isn´t necessary to follow that pattern? This last one, is quite unlikely my favourite, because some more invisible forces makes more changes, than actually the light itself... Maybe I should program the light according to the real phases of the moon... With that, does the light affect really the snails as the gravitational influence? Should we put both together?

I've often wondered about this particularly as a lot of the snails we have are equatorial meaning that the 10 month moon cycle has much more influence, because sunlight length is nearly constant.

I think you'd have to follow the phases of the moon, perhaps position and strength to have an effect and that is assuming it is light and not gravity that could be beneficial.

[apple]

That´s very interesting.
I´ll try to put my light according to the moon phases so.
Fotoperiod in Equatorial Africa usually is 13/11 right? And it remains fairly constant?

[Paul]

It swings from 13/11 to 11/13

www.petsnails.co.uk/index.php?action=environment&type=westafrica

[apple]

Ah ok, so only two hours of difference on day lenght.
That´s why the temperatures there are uniformly high, the biggest variatons are on the rainfall ( drought and rainy season, twice per year both?) and on the moon different phases.

[sezzy5889]

so what are you saying, that you are going to try and mimic the moon light?

[apple]

Yes, once I´m sure that´s important for snails.
But I still have to think on how I can do that. LoL.
I´m just sure that I´ll try to do that.

[sezzy5889]

hmmm, this is probably something completely different as i don't understand all your detailed plans, but i have blue lights in my room which i keep on all night as it's calming, my room also being the same shade of blue, when the lights are on in at night the whole room looks like the moon is right at my window glaring in, the snails being in my bedroom also share this experience, could this be any good or do you mean special lighting?

[apple]

I´ll try to reproduce moon light variation, with proper light lamp. I don´t know yet, if it exists any kind of this lamp, but I may do it by another way.
Example: Just cutting from a piece of something lol, the shape of the moon, and then put the light behind it, on the roof, then I reproduce all the shapes possible of the moon, and I just have to change it whenever the moon phase changes... Well this idea just came now, but I´m sure that exists better ideas.. Maybe exists some fake moons with light available for sell, much better than this.
Maybe your snails may take some kind of benefit of your blue light, I can´t really be sure of that though...

apple

[Paul]

Remember, moonlight is just reflected sunlight. It obviously loses some UV.

[apple]

Yes, Paul, i´ll need a proper light for that effect, with low UV.
Thanks