Skylights near reef tank

[burtbollinger]

Our new home was built with several skylights in the ceiling...unless I wanted to stash my new tank in the unfinished basement, there's simply no avoiding them or the light they cast.

As such, a lot of natural light spills into our living room where I have just added my new reef tank. What are the negative ramifications of this? In the past, I did have a reef system near a window with no visible impact...

Anyway, I would say it receives somewhat near direct sunlight for @ 1 hour...but there is a good bit of soft, indirect lighting coming in from above during the day.

My concern would be excess algae growth I guess....If this is indeed a concern, can good husbandry mitigate this? Temp. fluctuations not a concern as tank is on a controller....

I had planned to have my actual lighting cycle start @ 3pm via Nanobox Duo...ramping up....so that I can enjoy the tank when I arrive home @ 6pm until bedtime around midnight.

 

[aaron23]

this shouldnt be an issue, there shouldnt be more algae growth because of the natural light spill over vs the light with your setup

 

[Sacohen]

There shouldn't be a problem.
There is a post on R2R or Reef Central of a guy that is actually using solar tubes as his lighting for his tank.
Natural Sunlight. Nothing better than the real thing.

 

[Sacohen]

Here is the link to the thread.
https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?posts/1037404

 

[lion king]

Indirect light doesn't seem to cause much of an issue, if direct light ever hits the tank it will cause algae. Manageable but a pita, one of my tank rooms get direct light in the summer, the other gets it in the winter. Even the gaps in the blinds causes a problem, and if I forget to close them, really bad. That's just an hour in the morning as the sun moves. So as the earth moves just check the position of direct light, you can also install blinds with a remote over any skylight that causes direct light.