light in sump to grow cheato

[donkey77]

ok so i wanna grow some cheato, i put a 65ook cfl light in my sump i have some small pebble size LR, its been on for 3 weeks, off 4 hours a day, and all iam growing is this brown looking algae, over everything, all my pari are in check its a 90g reef ready

[WarDog]

Could you post a picture, that would be a big help. Sounds like diatoms. Do you have a ball of cheato in there?

[donkey77]

no cheato yet

[Wheelman76]

No point in having the light on if you don't have chaeto in there yet because all you're doing is growing problem algae.

[donkey77]

sounds good
cheers

[WarDog]

Yeah, get yourself some cheato, it will love the 6500k!