Hello. I have a 6 gallon tank with 2 clownfish and yesterday, my coral arrived. My tank has been up for almost exactly a year and 3 months.
Yesterday, I got 2 star polyp frags and 1 mushroom. I drip acclimated them to the tank and had the light off for 10 hours (overnight) and this morning, I turned the light on.
I came back from work an hour ago and found the tank covered in algae. I have algae issue but its never been so sudden for algae to grow. The corals also seem to be covered in algae and I'm worried if the polyps are not going to open up of the corals are going to die because of the algae. My light is a cheap $60 light with 3 660nm red led chips, a lot of blue 450 nm chips and a lot of white 9300k chips. 36 chips in total which creates 368 lm of light.
Some photos:
Yesterday, I got 2 star polyp frags and 1 mushroom. I drip acclimated them to the tank and had the light off for 10 hours (overnight) and this morning, I turned the light on.
I came back from work an hour ago and found the tank covered in algae. I have algae issue but its never been so sudden for algae to grow. The corals also seem to be covered in algae and I'm worried if the polyps are not going to open up of the corals are going to die because of the algae. My light is a cheap $60 light with 3 660nm red led chips, a lot of blue 450 nm chips and a lot of white 9300k chips. 36 chips in total which creates 368 lm of light.
Some photos: