The tilting of the Earth just ruined my tank...

[Ippyroy]

placement. I recently started a 20 gallon AIO in my bedroom. The main item for this tank is a mangrove. I am no rush with tank. It has been cycled for a few weeks with only a few mangrove pods floating around, a small powerhead, and a Kessil A80. i was thinking about some gorgonians in it and some shrimp and crabs. I had a diatom bloom about 3 weeks ago. It's played out and a couple of green spots showed up on one of hte rocks and in the corner on the sand. I wasn't worried because I have an oversized CUC in my other tank, and I was going to put a few of the snails in there before they became crab snacks anyway, just waiting for the algae to really take off.

I come today, feed my tank and start to change for my second job. I look over at my tank and the green spots grew by about a 1000x. The tank was super bright. I have a south facing window, with another cabin next door. This cabin is about 8 feet away from mine. With a nice clean shiny aluminum roof, magnifying the sunlight straight into my tank. I might try closing the curtains, I don't know for how long the sun will actually shine through this window in that exact angle to hit the tank. Hopefully it will only last a month or less.

If it only lasts a month or less I think it will be fine. Hopefully only a couple of weeks, otherwise I will have to find a new place for it, which really means I will have to build a stand but I am currently enjoying the concept of being a LAR. Have a great day out there my fellow reefers and remember this is a hobby and all hobbies should be fun.

 

[F i s h y]

Sounds like a great place to stick some coral.... natural sunlight makes em grow really fast

 

[GK3]

placement. I recently started a 20 gallon AIO in my bedroom. The main item for this tank is a mangrove. I am no rush with tank. It has been cycled for a few weeks with only a few mangrove pods floating around, a small powerhead, and a Kessil A80. i was thinking about some gorgonians in it and some shrimp and crabs. I had a diatom bloom about 3 weeks ago. It's played out and a couple of green spots showed up on one of hte rocks and in the corner on the sand. I wasn't worried because I have an oversized CUC in my other tank, and I was going to put a few of the snails in there before they became crab snacks anyway, just waiting for the algae to really take off.

I come today, feed my tank and start to change for my second job. I look over at my tank and the green spots grew by about a 1000x. The tank was super bright. I have a south facing window, with another cabin next door. This cabin is about 8 feet away from mine. With a nice clean shiny aluminum roof, magnifying the sunlight straight into my tank. I might try closing the curtains, I don't know for how long the sun will actually shine through this window in that exact angle to hit the tank. Hopefully it will only last a month or less.

If it only lasts a month or less I think it will be fine. Hopefully only a couple of weeks, otherwise I will have to find a new place for it, which really means I will have to build a stand but I am currently enjoying the concept of being a LAR. Have a great day out there my fellow reefers and remember this is a hobby and all hobbies should be fun.

Save the ocean, remove aluminum roofs.

 

[Ippyroy]

Sounds like a great place to stick some coral.... natural sunlight makes em grow really fast

Darn. My new corals come in next week. The sunlight will probably be gone by then. Rough way to acclimate a bunch of new corals though. I should definitely rethink this.

 

[KrisReef]

I expected this was going to be an earthquake or perhaps a volcano damage thread. How much solar heating does the tin roof bring to the tank?

Been a rough day-edit.

 

[Ippyroy]

Save the ocean, remove aluminum roofs.

If it wasn't for the 12 feet of snow every year I'd 100% agree. Rain on a tin roof is loud and annoying. But leaking roofs are much worse.

 

[Ippyroy]

I expected this was going to be an earthquake or perhaps a volcano damage thread. How much solar heating does the tin rough bring to the tank?

Huge attic that I can't access so basically none. But I do live in a huge volcano and we have earthquakes daily. Nothing beats living drangerously.

 

[KrisReef]

Actually, I was thinking about solar heating inside the aquarium from the reflected light.

 

[Ippyroy]

Actually, I was thinking about solar heating inside the aquarium from the reflected light.

I need to test that tomorrow. Didn't think about that. Thank you so much. This was mostly me being bored, just sort of goofing off. Now I have learned something rather important that I hadn't thought of. Again, thanks.

 

[KrisReef]

Hopefully you have Low e windows, but I am curious either way how much solar heating you might experience from the reflected light. Here in CA I've noticed that a small tide pool can be elevated to comfortable "bath water temperatures" (I didn't have a thermometer to give a real number ) by solar heating.