MH lights and algea on glass

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kpatrick

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Last month I switched from PC lights (440w) to 250W MH lights (750W total). Everything looked good at first but now it seems like I am cleaning the algea of the glass almost every other day when before I was only having to do it once ever 7 to 10 days with the PC lights. I am running the MH for 7 hours. Is this a normal break in cycle or am I not catching something? The ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and phosphates all test out at 0. I have also seen a couple of patches of algea recently on the sand and live rock as well but nothing too bad.
 
boomper

boomper

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The same thing happened to me when I added my 250 W HQI MH. You may want to add a few more glass cleaning snails to help out.
 
sweetreef

sweetreef

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what i have heard when changing lighting you do get a outbreak of some type of algea it can be big are small it did it to me but it was a small and short one if that...
 
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kpatrick

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Im hoping for a short outbreak. I did start off by having the lights on for a couple hours and slowly working up to the 7 hour period that they are currently on now in hopes that would help eliminate the possibilities of an outbreak.
 
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kpatrick

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Fishload is:
Hippo Tang
Foxface
3 - Perc clowns
Royal Gramma
2 - clown gobies
Watchman goby
 
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