![]() ![]() Of course there are fish who can do well without any light, but these are either blind or have no access to light in their natural habitat. I have to admit there are some exceptions. Placing your aquarium in direct sunlight will allow the algae to take over within days. Direct sunlight is so strong and contains a lot of energy, which will be harnessed by algae to grow like crazy. Placing your aquarium in direct sunlight is something you want to avoid for good reasons. While fish do need light, which can be sunlight, fish in your aquarium do not need direct sunlight. You want to keep everything as stable as possible so don’t put your aquarium under color changing RGB lights. Changing lights has the same result as changing any parameters in your aquarium such as temperature or pH: it causes stress. This is definitely something you should not do. Some people have asked me whether fish respond to color changing light like those RGB lights. They give the best results in a fixture with two bulbs so you can add a regular light and a coral light otherwise, the coral light IME is too dark on its own. ![]() These are called coral light bulbs (at least thats what the one we purchased was called). Your light should be white and as close to daylight (5000 – 6500 K). The light gives a blueish sort of blacklight hue to the fish tank. Having a colored light is not beneficial for their health. I do know that fish look very different under a different color light and I’ve had a purple light together with a white light in the same aquarium. I’m unsure whether fish like the colored lights. With a light, it’s much easier to see your fish, check your tank and enjoy your aquarium in general. Without the aquarium light it’s rather hard to see your fish, so that’s why we stick a light on top. All plants that can do relatively well with just the light in the room.įinally, having an aquarium light that turns on and off daily is primarily for ourselves. If not, my guess would be that you have plants like Anubias, Java Fern and Java Moss. If you’ve got live plants you probably also have an aquarium light. Plants use the light to convert it to energy using photosynthesis, just like we learned at school. If there is no algae or even brown algae, raise the light to 9 and eventually to 10 hours. ![]() Instead, I would recommend keeping your dedicated aquarium light on for about 8 hours and see how this goes. I’ve tried this and asked many people about it, and the conclusion is the same throughout: algae will bloom. You could say that this means that you should leave your aquarium light on for 12 hours, but I would not do this. How long your aquarium light should be onįish need day and night cycles with about 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness. I’ve actually written an article about this before, which you can check out here if you want. Just make sure the light is not too bright because you don’t want algae growing with the light of your night light. I would actually also do this when my room would turn pitch black at night. If your aquarium is in a basement or another room which turns absolutely pitch black adding a small light somewhere in the room to mimic the moon is something that I’ve seen fish keepers do. ![]()
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