sunlight

  1. R

    Sunlight does its job perfectly

    I have huge sunlight from window to the back of the tank and it's fun that the part of coral which received the sun directly has more colour and growing form to the direction to the sun, the more contact with the sun, the more coloured and growing up. Here my whole tank to easy imagine...
  2. L

    Natural Sunlight

    Hello Everyone! Well, to start off, I should have listened to everyone on going bigger.... Not because it's easier but because I would want to upgrade! We just moved into a new house and I got a free 75 gallon tank (excuse the stand ... I will not be using that one. I will be building one!) and...
  3. D

    Is it true that real sunlight is bad for LPS?

    Hi everyone. I've been building my little coral farm recently. So, the idea was to use a real sunlight inside of the farm, therefore I built a glass roof above the coral pools. Problem is that here where I live I couldn't find any kind of nice blue shading material to get more of blue colors in...
  4. MnFish1

    Lets talk about the sun.....

    So - I read that Goniopora do better in sunlight. People seem to have problems with this coral - I seem to do ok. I read that at an aquarium in Hawaii that is lit by sun - they have no problems with them. I noticed that from about 7AM to noon (depending on the season) - various portions of...
  5. drtechno

    Large Build OINK! I'm a Pig. 200g Reef Savvy, Bashsea, Royal Exclusiv -Direct sunlight- In wall w/ IKEA fishroom basement sump build

    Hi everyone. I finally got around to starting this build thread. I had originally wanted to wait until things were closer to being done, and then doing a recap of sorts, so that people didn't have to wait long periods of time before updates. However, I am learning many things along the way...
  6. D

    Black Cyano Lots of Sunlight

    good morning everyone, I have an 80 gallon waterbox frag tank and have been getting a bad outbreak of black Cyano carpeting my sand. We recently moved into the 23rd floor of a skyscraper and our walls are windows, the tank is getting blasted by natural sunlight everyday. I’m unsure how to...
  7. Nikko

    UV resistant tinting to limit light exposure

    I recently set up a new 90 gallon reef tank in my living room, a little closer to direct sunlight than what is advisable, and having minor algae issues after 2 months. initially a diatom bloom that came and went and now sone green algae (not sute what type). I have blinds which slightly helps...
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