Help with lighting

[Steven Piraino]

So I moved to a new city brought my tank with me it is a 120 Gallon 5 ft. At my old house I had it dialed in perfectly. No issues.

Now I have lived here close to a year and I am fighting hair algae up the butt. I am getting frustrated with this tempted to get rid of the tank.

My equipment is:

• Urchin in sump skimmer which I just bought a new pump for
• It does have a refugium which I have a ton of calerpa (if thats how you spell it)
• 2 Hydra 26 lights which are mounted over the tank about 10 inches
  • My settings right now are UV 0%
  • Red and Green 3%
  • Blues 80% and 85%
  • Whites 5

As far as filtration goes that is all I have.

The water I use is RODI water the TDS reads 0

So I am at loss of what to do I am going to do another 3 day blackout

If anybody has any other suggestions on settings for lights that would be great.

Majority of my corals are LPS and Softies nothing major

Please I am tempted to get rid of this thing.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

How long ago was the move ?

“Mini cycle” comes to mind.

Is it a new rodi source ?

Look at fluconazole (or reef hd )

 

[Steven Piraino]

I moved in January.

Ive never used fluconazole before ive heard of it but never used it myself

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I moved in January.

Ive never used fluconazole before ive heard of it but never used it myself

That is weird. You should be settled in at this point.

I’d encourage you to find the source of the problem for sure.

Fluc is the miracle cure for bryopsis, but also works in slightly higher doses for gha.

 

[Steven Piraino]

Maybe I will look into that.

I'm not sure what the source is. I do 10 gallon water change every week. Clean the skimmer clean the sponges, socks, trim the macro.

The only thing i can think of is too much light. I kept the same settings as I did previously but the only yhing I can think of different altitude maybe?

There isn't any direct natural light either.