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[nonionay]

Earlier this evening, as I was typing away on my WIP, I noticed a dark lump shuffling around the fishtank. The pleco was out! He meandered over to his algae wafer, but when I slowly stood, he vanished. I'd heard that you can watch them at night with a red light. Well, I don't have a red light bulb yet, but I have a blue one, and I've got it set up in the vain hope that my body's vibrations won't keep the pleco at bay.

Now it goes without saying that blue is not red. In my old room, where I never used only the blue bulb, I never appreciated how close it is to a blacklight. Now, it's turning everything in my room blue, except for the green and orange things. The orange price tag on top of a bottle of mineral water, the green stripes on my toy tarantula's knees, the single word, "Shannara" on my shelf of unread books. Everything else is monochromatic.

EDIT: oh, oh, it's out! Aw, Chelsea just slammed a door and now the dark lump is gone. :-(

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[pussinboots.livejournal.com]

Reptiles can't see red light--it's out of their range or whatever, so that's why you can keep a red heat lamp in a reptile's cage, and they'll feel comfy because they still think it's dark when it's nighttime, but they're warm. I don't know how fish eyes work--maybe they can't see blue either, who knows!

[criada.livejournal.com]

Further research has shown that lunar lights exist to simulate moonlight, and they're blue.