The lack of...

[muecyl]

I’m not sure what kind of post this is… I guess it is out of shock in observation.
BACKGROUND: I just moved my tank to a new city after directly down-size’n it from a 55 to a 29 Oceanic Bio-cube. I had a crazy green hair algae (derbesia) but am 90 % rid of it now.

Anyway, my lights both went out (warranty coverage) and have been waiting patiently for the lights. I use the word “patiently” lightly…

I got desperate ...

In my new place there is a ton of natural light, and I was scared of the light. The tank gets 40 min of direct light in early early morning and about 40 min at sunset , with bright indirect light all day. I take the lid when I wake up and put it back at night to let more light in so my softies don’t croke. I was really nervous and felt really silly to even to ask about this on 3reef BUT……

The tank has done really well. I’m NOT encouraging this my any means but my mushrooms have really done well and there has been almost no measurable bad algae growth!

My light bulbs come in on Monday due to the 4th and I will switch back. I was just really shocked from what I could tell: little to no negative effects. ? !!!

Thought I would share my experience

p.s. the green seen in the pic is from the remaining hair algae bloom from before

Open for criticism …

[omard]

No criticism here!!! (except that "blue font" is kind of hard on eyes.. )

Actually has been advocated on other forums to leave lights off for 3 or 4 days every once in a while...supposed to give all corals and fish kind of a "rest" I suppose...

Personally I think it is BS. I tried it once while on vacation, sixline jumped in overflow...a number of my corals stayed shriveled up for days afterwards...

[cuttingras]

I'd go ahead and hook up the new lights but remember don't go full blast with em till the tank inhabitants get used to them.

[nemo1991]

sounds cool to me.

[muecyl]

Yeah, I will hook'em back up when I get them in the mail. I might add the time frame too, It has been over a month with no synthetic lighting, only all natural, only the little thing we like to call the Sun...