When do you have your lights on?
- Thread starter chris_zx2
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For the past couple days, I've left the light off until it starts to get dark outside, just for the heck of it (the tank's surrounded on 3 sides by windows, so there's plenty of natural light), but now I've got a serious brown algae bloom (the water is a brown-red color), so I won't be doing that again. And for the record, I did a 60% water change on Wednesday afternoon, so it's not a water quality issue.
Have you checked your water parameters? My current 10 gallon is the only well-lit tank in which I've had brown algae, but it only grows on the side of the tank that is in the shadow of the in-tank filter.
brown algae can also be lights that need changing.
for green algae. Less hours of light, less food....and get an algae strike force in place. I have 3 plecos, an odwalla catfish and a flying fox.
I'm fine with 9 hours for mostly low, medium light plants at 2w per g. In fact, that might even be too much light by the books, but they don't seem to mind.
for green algae. Less hours of light, less food....and get an algae strike force in place. I have 3 plecos, an odwalla catfish and a flying fox.
I'm fine with 9 hours for mostly low, medium light plants at 2w per g. In fact, that might even be too much light by the books, but they don't seem to mind.
I onlyhave 4 Amazon sword plants left in mine, my rck destroyed everything else. I keep my lights on a timer for 6 hours a day (from 4 to 10), but his tank also gets natural sunlight from morning to mid after noon.
