Kessil a360we

[Kruz1]

hey guys

So I have a 265 reef tank and I’m having some algae problems all the levels are good I know it’s coming from the lights I have the kessil a360we tuna blue have 4 total all spaced out and height properly. Can you guys recommend lighting schedules or any other ideas to fix this issue got algae in sand and on rocks

Thanks

 

[Crabs McJones]

hey guys

So I have a 265 reef tank and I’m having some algae problems all the levels are good I know it’s coming from the lights I have the kessil a360we tuna blue have 4 total all spaced out and height properly. Can you guys recommend lighting schedules or any other ideas to fix this issue got algae in sand and on rocks

Thanks

Welcome to R2R! Can you share your current schedule with us?

 

[Kruz1]

1300
Color 30% int.20
1400
50. 60
1500
100. 100
1700
100. 100
1800
5. 15
2200
0. 0

 

[Crabs McJones]

1300
Color 30% int.20
1400
50. 60
1500
100. 100
1700
100. 100
1800
5. 15
2200
0. 0

From personal experience, I've found that not letting the color go over 50% has greatly helped with algae control. The closer you get to 100% color the more red and green and white gets thrown into the mix.

 

[Daniel Waters]

hey guys

So I have a 265 reef tank and I’m having some algae problems all the levels are good I know it’s coming from the lights I have the kessil a360we tuna blue have 4 total all spaced out and height properly. Can you guys recommend lighting schedules or any other ideas to fix this issue got algae in sand and on rocks

Thanks

It's not your lights. Your photo period is not excessive, and while running your lights more on the white side may encourage a little bit more algae growth, I would look to other areas such as flow, nutrients, proper # and diversity of clean up crew. In my tank, for example, the rockwork doesn't show much algae (other than coraline), but that's because my naso tang, yellow tang, hermits, and snails, keep it pretty well picked clean. When I used to keep a harlequin tusk, I wasn't able to keep any trochus or astrea snails, so I started having a bit more noticeable algae. Thus, sometimes presence of algae may just mean you need more of a certain type of clean up critter...or you may have too much nutrients and your clean up crew can't keep up!

 

[DesertReefT4r]

hey guys

So I have a 265 reef tank and I’m having some algae problems all the levels are good I know it’s coming from the lights I have the kessil a360we tuna blue have 4 total all spaced out and height properly. Can you guys recommend lighting schedules or any other ideas to fix this issue got algae in sand and on rocks

Thanks

Can you share more info with us please. When you say your levels are good what do you mean by good? Do a full water test and post it up for us. How old is the tank? Are you using live rock or dry rock? If I am reading your light setup correct you are running 6 hours with a peak at 100% for 2 hours? If so 100% is a bit intense but 6 hours total photo period is not overly long, a little short in fact. Lighting is most likely not your issue here.

 

[minus9]

It's not your lights. Nitrates, phosphates and other nutrients are usually the culprit of algae issues. Also, what kind of algae problems? GHA, slime, turf, etc? Are you running a refugium? It's a great way of zapping nutrients from your display and feeding the macros or micros.
As stated above, please provide as much info about your tank and we can better understand the situation.
I agree with Crabs, color below 50%, but I've never had an issue with any color settings using Kessil's.

 

[madweazl]

As others have mentioned, it isn't your light settings. I've been running A360WEs at 60-65% color for a few years now and have no issues with undesirable algae. You could run them at 100% color and it wouldn't make a difference. What are your nitrate and phosphate levels?

 

[Kruz1]

Calcium is 500
KH is 9 dkh 161.1ppm kh
Phosphate is 2.0
Nitrate is 0
Magnesium is 1485

 

[Kruz1]

Calcium is 500
Kh is 9dkh or 161.1 ppm
Phosphate is 2.0
Nitrate is 0
Magnesium is 1485
Salt at .25

 

[Kruz1]

Here’s the algae

 

[lapin]

Looks like cyano if its red. Are you sure N is 0 and P is 2.0?

 

[minus9]

Looks like a combo of nutrient unbalance and a lack of flow? Slowly lower your phosphates (if they are truly that high) and slowly increase your nitrates. How often are you feeding and what are you feeding?

 

[Kruz1]

Yes sure the ph is that high and only thing I use is reef roids no fish in there...and the color is almost like purple and brownish

 

[minus9]

Source water or maybe rock leaching phosphate? Unless you really add a lot of reef roids? Can you post a FTS so we can see everything?

 

[Kruz1]

 

[MSB123]

I see fish. What is your stocking list?

 

[Kruz1]

Just got some today actually there’s some tangs yellow and purple 2 clowns a diamond goby and a cow fish

 

[MSB123]

Be are full with the cowfish, they are very slow and need lower flow conditions and even clownfish will outcompete them for food. What size is the cowfish?
I have one and so I have learned the risks

 

[Kruz1]

Lol so my wife hates having this huge tank so she wanted it so I got it to keep her quiet...and it’s medium size maybe 3-4 inches