spankey
01-19-2005, 3:27 PM
I have a 20 gallon nano. I have 15lbs of Live Rock some zoos and some xenia... It houses 2 yellow tailed damsels and one red lipped blenny.. About 5 hermits and 2 snails and one peppermint shrimp...
The lighting over the tank is 100 watts of 6500k PC.
One 10,000k 9 watt bulb and 1 9 watt acintic bulb... Roughly 6 watts per gallon of PC lighting..
I leave the lights on a timer for about 7 hours a day.. The zoos and xenia are thriving... I also have some tube coral that I see popping out from time to time...
My test parameters are perfect... Nitrites and nitrates are 0. My ammonia is 0 and my phosphates are 0...
I use RO water for water changes and such...I am running a skimmer as well...
My dilema or question is this?? I am getting green algae on the live rock? I am getting brown algae on the glass.. I scrape that from time to time.. Now mind you the green algae is a real bright green alage... Its not an ugly color.. But is this normal? And will this diminish???? I just don't understand because my tank parameters are perfect?
Can anyone else explain this and is this normal??? I cut two of the 19watt 6500k bulbs off to see if maybee its getting TOO much light???
Again, can anyone help me out here??? I am picking my brain???
Thanks
Spankey
The lighting over the tank is 100 watts of 6500k PC.
One 10,000k 9 watt bulb and 1 9 watt acintic bulb... Roughly 6 watts per gallon of PC lighting..
I leave the lights on a timer for about 7 hours a day.. The zoos and xenia are thriving... I also have some tube coral that I see popping out from time to time...
My test parameters are perfect... Nitrites and nitrates are 0. My ammonia is 0 and my phosphates are 0...
I use RO water for water changes and such...I am running a skimmer as well...
My dilema or question is this?? I am getting green algae on the live rock? I am getting brown algae on the glass.. I scrape that from time to time.. Now mind you the green algae is a real bright green alage... Its not an ugly color.. But is this normal? And will this diminish???? I just don't understand because my tank parameters are perfect?
Can anyone else explain this and is this normal??? I cut two of the 19watt 6500k bulbs off to see if maybee its getting TOO much light???
Again, can anyone help me out here??? I am picking my brain???
Thanks
Spankey