LED Green Coraline

[Merry Browen]

background on system 65G tall(24in) 20L sump 9.5 return lighting 38 cree Leds 20 RB 18 CW 60 degree lens about 8 inches above the tank. tanks been running about 6-7 months. mag 1380ish calcium 440 ​

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10. no detectable phos ammonia. now for the question. the fixture is dimable but i run everything at about 90%

anyone seen any correlation between the intesnsity of light and green coraline algae? i have small patchs of pink/purple but it would seen that my rocks are covered in what i believe is green coraline. it doesn't look "fussy" or "stringy" like nuisance algae. I tested the focus of light while building the tank at 8 inches above almost no light touches the glass(6-7 months cleaned glass about 3 times) the tank has no "LIVE" rock all​

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base rock coraline was introduce via buld up on power heads used from older tank. second question would anyone recomend moving the fixture up? sorry for the long post any input would be appreciated.







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[Pkunk35]

Green? I wouldn't doubt coralline could be green but I have never seen.

Is it hard, can you chip or scrape it off?

 

[Sahin]

I assume your tank is less than 1 year old? Is the Green Corralline algae specks of hard green on the glass and rocks? They do sometime present itself around the 3-9 month period in less than mature tanks. I had it in other tanks where I did not use LED's. In time the pink variety will become dominant. As long as your corals are ok under the LED's, then leave them as they are.

 

[wysiwyg]

yes you can have green coraling when my tank first started up most of it has went to purple

 

[NanoNathan]

I had my tank with the whole over flow box and back wall with green Coraline asalgae

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[cdness]

Corraline grows in all sorts of colors. In my tank I have the normal pink but I also have a light purple, maroon red, and bright orange. It is really cool to see the different types of stuff that grows as the tank matures.

 

[mainereefer]

when I switched to led I had to scrape green coraline off the glass every other day. after a month or so it got better now, 6 months later not much on the glass at all

 

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