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Old 08-24-2013, 02:17 PM
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ok my tank has been running for a year I've been battling brown hair algae, then i got all these little air bubbles all over my rocks, my param are all in check, i use ro water with new filters, i think its coming from my sand so ive been taking it out with my weekly water changes, so i started to think maybe its my lights, is this to much light in a day, anyways the battle goes on
i use a AI sol blue my times are
RB on at 8 am 1 hour ramp to 75%
B on at 9 am 1 hour ramp to 75%
W on at 10 am 1 hour ramp to 60%


W off at 7pm 1 hour ramp down to 0
B off at 8pm 1 hour ramp down to 0
RB off a 9pm 30 min ramp down to 0
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Old 08-24-2013, 02:49 PM
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Yeah u can turn your lights down to 8ish hours

But post some pics. Could be dinoflagellate not HA
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Old 08-24-2013, 04:07 PM
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4 Sol Blues

Time W B RB Ramp
08:30 5 5 5 60mins
09:30 10 10 10 30mins
10:00 15 15 15 30mins
11:30 20 30 30 30mins
12:00 40 55 55 30mins
12:30 50 75 75 30mins
13:00 100 100 100 60mins
16:00 90 90 90 60mins
18:30 8 52 74 120mins
21:00 3 17 25 30mins
22:00 2 8 14 30mins
22:30 5 5 off 30mins
23:00 4 4 off 30mins
01:00 4 4 off 30mins lunar on

Also supplementing with 4 Panorama Pros which run from 10:00-23:00 @ 100%

I dont think your problem is lighting related.
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Old 08-24-2013, 07:25 PM
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Post a pic. I had the same issue and I upgraded my skimmer and flow and the amount of crud that came out was unreal. I even tried chemi clean and it didn't work. I thought it was cyano at one point cuz it's looked crusted on the sand and slimey. Been a couple weeks now and nothing's back yet. Actually little spots I had are all disappearing. Check your phosphates too.
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