cougaran
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I really want to mainly do a FOWLR setup, but I do like reef stuff and have had soft corals and even kept SPS alive w/ minimal lighting conditions by keeping them very high in my 90 gal tank. I wanted to purchase a marineland 300 gal-72x36x27.
I live in the North East, where like lately we have had a 15 day stretch of no sun and mostly rain. I wanted to build a Sunroom off my house and wanted to put a large aquarium in it. My concerns is will it be too much light? It wont be getting full sun as there is a huge tree in yard that shades everything for most of the day, so in a sense there will be alot of windows but not direct sun all day. Im also not afraid to use blinds in the future if the tank became an algae pit.
I have a icecap 660 w 4x t5 bulbs (4ft)that i never had chance to setup on my old tank. Im wondering if i can place them centered and have an island setup in the tank. I was thinking of using the t5's to supplement the natural lighting and to color up the deficiencies.
Any suggestions or past experiences would be appreciated.
I live in the North East, where like lately we have had a 15 day stretch of no sun and mostly rain. I wanted to build a Sunroom off my house and wanted to put a large aquarium in it. My concerns is will it be too much light? It wont be getting full sun as there is a huge tree in yard that shades everything for most of the day, so in a sense there will be alot of windows but not direct sun all day. Im also not afraid to use blinds in the future if the tank became an algae pit.
I have a icecap 660 w 4x t5 bulbs (4ft)that i never had chance to setup on my old tank. Im wondering if i can place them centered and have an island setup in the tank. I was thinking of using the t5's to supplement the natural lighting and to color up the deficiencies.
Any suggestions or past experiences would be appreciated.