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No, its not good lol.








This was the day after I used chemiclean to get rid of cyano.. I keep having to clean the glass now..
I am recieving my penguin 350 this week and will be running phos ban asap even though my tests say its at zero.. I am testing with the Hagen test kit

 

Yikes.

I remember those fun times...

I am putting off buying new bulbs because I know that algae will have a field day...

 

so old bulbs is the trick eh? haha, ill check that on my to do list.

my fixture is 1 month old max just fyi
130 watts pc

 

Are you feeding too much? You obviously have too many nutrients in your water! How about filtration and water flow?
Also, try doing a water change!

 

is that much algae bad? or is it just bad looking?

 

There arent any fish in the tank at the moment so overfeeding is out of the question..filtration is subpar at the moment with my big Topfin 30 hob filter that I am replacing with a penguin 350 Wednesday.. Also I have a Koralia #1 pushing 400gph plus flow created by my remora aquac. all saltwater is store bought.. RO topoff water bought from same LFS and only uses about 1 gal every 4 days. all tests come back fine with my hagen test kit and also from my LFS

 

It wasn AS bad today, but I still had to clean off all the glass today before doing my weekly water change today.. I dont have any pics before but here are pics from the front and both sides after my water change today.. this was a few hours ago.

 

Being that the tank is fairly new, you will get some microalgae! Do you or are you planning on a refugium addition to your tank!? If you add some macroalgae, it should help to cut down on the micro!

 

If you are cleaning algae off your glass everyday, how long are you leaving your lights on for each day???:-/ Algae builds up on my glass if I leave my daytime lights on for more then 8 hours a day.

 

+1 on the refugium dea. It would be awesome if you could buy or make a hob refugium, or any type of fuge!!!