I have one tank upstairs that’s about 20 feet from the windows. We don’t use window shades, so it gets sun light but not directly. Depending what part of the global your in, the intensity can vary greatly through the year.
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The moonlight happens so far twice a year. Comes through a skylight and shines in the end of the tankMoonlight too? Very cool!!! Nice Euphillia.
Agreed!!! Like driving slow on the freeway or mowing lawn? “A new TANK”!!!!Have a 90 and 180 which receive 0 sunlight
have a 15 WB peninsula on a office desk that gets 1-2 hours of direct afternoon exposure
the 15 is all softies and LPS and the corals on the sun side of the scape are some of the most robust corals I have in all the gallons - makes me want to get a new tank with SPS to repeat the experiment
but then again lots of things make me want to get a new tank
Is the Toledo Zoo using the tubes to light or grow things? If just a swim tank maybe that’s why the “dirty light”?Back in 2015, when we renovated the Toledo Zoo Aquarium, I had them install Sola Tubes on the two reef exhibits. We augmented that with MH (switched to LEDs now). Worked fine, but at the time, there was this vague argument that natural sunlight was "dirty". I suspect that opinion was derived from sunlight only being 5000 K and reefers more used to 10,000 K or higher, combined with vastly increased intensity.
Jay
The sola tubes are on our two live coral exhibits.Is the Toledo Zoo using the tubes to light or grow things? If just a swim tank maybe that’s why the “dirty light”?
Nice! Quite the project! Congrats.The sola tubes are on our two live coral exhibits.
Jay
If mine looked like this I would be more than pleased! My nano gets this amount of sunlight but… The film algae fights back and takes the glass. I never get photos of it under natural sun because of this.I get direct sun in December and January and I love it. So does the coral.
Holy crap! Firstly, that house looked like a museum (nice paintings). Second, that’s a sick idea.My 40 breeder in the family room doesn't get any sun. My 82 billion gallon tank 10 minutes away only gets natural sun.
Here's an old thread on RC where the reefkeeper added solatubes over their tank to capture natural sunlight.