Sun light as a daylight.

[chefrt1]

I’m going to move my tank soon after my rock finish curing. My plan is I going to place my tank at the glass panel at the wall. This glass is about 4in thick, 2ft L and 6ft H, and not the clear glass so only 30% to 40% the sun light will be go thorough to the tank and also the sun is not direct pointing to this glass. With this I can reduce of using light during daytime. My concern is this ok to the tank, how about algae.

 

[SnowManSnow]

Sunlight is fine. Your corals and anemonies will love it. The only problem with using it is that you can't depend on it

If you are going to have an issue.. the issue will be heat, being that close to the window.

As far as algae goes remember this: Algae is caused by nutrients in the water (less than clean water). If your water is pure and free of excess nutrients the algae can't grow. Use RODI and skim and you should be fine as far as algae goes. If you're setting up a NEW tank.. you'll get algae blooms for the first month or so ... brown diatoms mostly... but they should subside over time.

Just my opinion.
B.

 

[chefrt1]

The heat and temperature will be no problem because I used chiller to control temp, and also this will be no direct sunlight through this glass. For your info my tank 4ft wide and the glass panel it only 2ft wide, so I place in the tank in the middle.

For the water I used FSW collect it from the sea and for top-up using RO water.

This tank about 2 yr plus. I have to move the tank because of the maintenance quiet difficult in the present place. The new LR, this is because I need to add more LR to the tank.