Natural Sunlight

[idog]

Here is a real NOOB question, but one I haven't seen talked about in the books.

My tank is still cycling right now so I am keeping it dark. It is in my livingroom which has Souteast exposure so if I move the tank by the window, It would get about an hour or two of natural sunlight in the morning. I would do this once the tank is seasoned of course and algae was under control. Would this be ill advised? I'd like some thoughts on letting natural light into my tank, or will it be an algae nightmare.

Cheers

 

[Anonymous]

my tank loves it when sunlight hits it through the window i have it in an eastern facing window so it gets just a touch in the morning - beware of algae and heat issues though

 

[EDGRAY]

Mine gets some too not directly but gets some and well it gets it during the lighs are off so all the corals are looking in the window direction really funny i guess they like it and then when lights are on they all move and look up in to the tank lights.... :lol: just like mentioned before by J&D watch out with the algae cause im noticing faster growth on the algae on my glass but nothing serious like diatom or hairy green algae just normal green film in glass nothing that cant be scrape :mrgreen:

 

[reefman23]

A LFS here in So. Cal has a softy-dominant tank that has irect sunlight all day.

Another has a tank that gets sun about half the day.

Both have a TON of coraline algae, including colors that arent normally achieved in our tanks.

Jesse