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Unread 02/08/2018, 04:07 PM   #9
Zalick
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Portland
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Originally Posted by YetiCrab View Post
From my experience in this hobby, algae is going to grow somewhere. That's what algae does. It grows. If your conditions in the display are better suited to grow algae - that's where it is going to grow.

Once I setup a proper refugium, with a proper light and turn-over - I have never experienced algae in my dislpay.

So what I would do in your situation:
Ditch the puck light. Pickup an h380 and setup a proper fuge. Never look back.
I have a great grow light that I'll set up tonight and test.

Interesting that algae seems to favor the Kessil's over T5.


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