natural light good idea?

[mr_br0kn_drmz]

i have a window in my room that gets about 4 hours of good direct sunlight, and the rest of the day its in partial shade.

i was wondering if it would be a good idea to put my tanks around the window so i cant catch some of the natural sunlight.

 

[mr_br0kn_drmz]

oh yea the types of plant i have in there are pennywort, ambulia, and water sprites.

 

[Pescado Guy]

Direct sunlight is never a good idea. For one thing, it's only 4 hour a day. Also, it will heat the water like you wouldn't believe. Sooooooo much algae will grow that your water will look like pea soup. I put an aquarium in a place where it recieved direct sunlight once and it was a nightmare. Just get full spectrum fluorescent lights and you will be much happier.

Kevin

 

[jams.alaskan]

Yep - everything that I have been reading follows that thought - although INdirect sunlight is mentioned often as a plus.

ALASKA

 

[Stryker]

All the best LFS have their windows either blacked out or plastered in posters etc specifically because direct sunlight is not desired.

 

[mr_br0kn_drmz]

so direct unlight is bad. oh k. thanks for the help

 

[noelberg]

I would only say that it's not desirable.

I have my tank in a spot where it gets some direct sunlight, but it is semi-filtered out by a tree. Two months in this spot and I have never once had a problem that the pleco and the algae scraper could handle, and no algae bloom.

If you can get a better spot, I recommend it, but that would be a decent temporary spot or even permanent spot if you can keep up great water parameters. A background on the tank will also help.

 

[moe_1]

one of my LFS's has a massive salt water tank now, that used to have a shark in it. It dosent have any lighting, and recieves a fair bit of direct sunlight...