That lines up with 20 years of algae invasion posts even going back to the late 90s
"if your VHO bulbs are not rotated every 7 months, they'll shift into a phase of algae production"
found in hundreds of posts bc its true... these invaders belong on a reef and to be free of them is abnormal, that's why we try all these variable control means to affect something a real reef would never be....algae free. Yours is the hard work option, works across anchored invaders.
If we took any reef tank on this forum and showed up at the home with a 6500K high pressure sodium plant bulb and aimed it right low above their reef, green hair algae by Friday, even though the tank in its current stasis was algae free under the blues.
Your tank having been forced clean is now in the ideal position to have all common methods for prevention attempted, it's a clean palette.
"if your VHO bulbs are not rotated every 7 months, they'll shift into a phase of algae production"
found in hundreds of posts bc its true... these invaders belong on a reef and to be free of them is abnormal, that's why we try all these variable control means to affect something a real reef would never be....algae free. Yours is the hard work option, works across anchored invaders.
If we took any reef tank on this forum and showed up at the home with a 6500K high pressure sodium plant bulb and aimed it right low above their reef, green hair algae by Friday, even though the tank in its current stasis was algae free under the blues.
Your tank having been forced clean is now in the ideal position to have all common methods for prevention attempted, it's a clean palette.
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