ssparker
05/27/2007, 08:30 PM
Hello I just wanted to know what might be causing my algie problem. I bought the tank from a friend it is 125 gallon with probley around 150 to 200 lbs of live rock and he had algie problems the hole time he had it. I have no nitrite or phosphate in my tank i use RO water my lightning is the 72" orbit with the 4 light hook up and i have replaced the ballest with sunpaq 120v and i use Sunpaq brand lights i have 2 96watt dual dalylight and 2 96watt dual actinic the dalylight run at 10000k and 6700k and the actinic run at 420nm and 460nm. I dont know what to do to fix this problem, I run my lights from 3pm till 11pm the actinic come on at 3 and the daylight come on at 4 and they both stay on till 10 and the daylight go off and then at 11 the actinic go off. I run a 25 watt uv light all the time and my skimmer runs all the time the skimmer i have a seaclone 100. I dont know if the daylight lights are to bright i was talking to my friend about changing the lights to fix this problem i was thinking about changing the daylight lights to a 50 50 light one with the daylight and actinic light in it so i would have 2 96watt actinic and 2 96watt 50 50 light would this help or make things worse. Im new to all this i have only had the tank for about 4 months now so any help on how to fix this problem would really be appreciated. Thanks.