sweatervest13
Active Member
Hi All,
I am battling a bit of GHA. I took my algae scrubber offline a few months ago. I was not growing green hair algae on it, it was more brown/red algae. Well slowly but surely I started to get some GHA growing in the bottom of the rockwork in the low flow areas. My flow is provided by 2 MP40's on reefcrest mode. But I have to dial them back a bit because the sugar fine sand I have blows like crazy (I would have bare glass showing in some areas and up to 5" of sand in others, the sand would constantly be all over the rocks and corals). I am in the process of changing the sand over to a larger grain.
My fuge has a decent size ball of Cheato, and some Caulperla on the rock rubble. I am now getting some large tufts of GHA in my fuge (that I don't mind, I just remove as much by hand each WC, so the nutrients are being exported). I have a plan to cut back on the extra nutrients being introduced into the tank: I will be rinsing food again, cutting back on the lighting schedule of the MH's (I plan on going with some controllable, dimmable Chinese LED's for Xmas).
I want to get my algae scrubber going again, but I don't like the CFL bulbs having to be changed out every three months.
What are some better options for fuge/scrubber lights??
I have searched online and found the "Reef Breeders Fuge-Lite". Here is the description:
LED grow bulb created specifically for growing algae commonly found in refugiums. These bulbs use 10 660nm and 2 450nm LEDs to grow algae from flame algae and cheato, to caulerpa and turf algae at a rapid rate. The bulbs will last for up to 10 years.
The bulb looks like a Par38 bulb with a heavy red tint. Any thoughts?? The are 79 bucks each.
I am battling a bit of GHA. I took my algae scrubber offline a few months ago. I was not growing green hair algae on it, it was more brown/red algae. Well slowly but surely I started to get some GHA growing in the bottom of the rockwork in the low flow areas. My flow is provided by 2 MP40's on reefcrest mode. But I have to dial them back a bit because the sugar fine sand I have blows like crazy (I would have bare glass showing in some areas and up to 5" of sand in others, the sand would constantly be all over the rocks and corals). I am in the process of changing the sand over to a larger grain.
My fuge has a decent size ball of Cheato, and some Caulperla on the rock rubble. I am now getting some large tufts of GHA in my fuge (that I don't mind, I just remove as much by hand each WC, so the nutrients are being exported). I have a plan to cut back on the extra nutrients being introduced into the tank: I will be rinsing food again, cutting back on the lighting schedule of the MH's (I plan on going with some controllable, dimmable Chinese LED's for Xmas).
I want to get my algae scrubber going again, but I don't like the CFL bulbs having to be changed out every three months.
What are some better options for fuge/scrubber lights??
I have searched online and found the "Reef Breeders Fuge-Lite". Here is the description:
LED grow bulb created specifically for growing algae commonly found in refugiums. These bulbs use 10 660nm and 2 450nm LEDs to grow algae from flame algae and cheato, to caulerpa and turf algae at a rapid rate. The bulbs will last for up to 10 years.
The bulb looks like a Par38 bulb with a heavy red tint. Any thoughts?? The are 79 bucks each.
