Lighting for Macroalgae
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seth
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Lighting for Macroalgae
What is the best lighting to use for the macroalgae I have purchased from Petshrimp.com. Mine seems to grow but has become quite pale. I am using an aquarium LED light on my 3 gallon aquarium.
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Arnold
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Re: Lightinf gor Macroalgae
Led must work just fine, make sure its around 6.500 kelvin, more lumens per galon/liters more growth and also indirect sunlinght works very well for growing algae and biofilm
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Mustafa
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Re: Lighting for Macroalgae
Your light may also be *too* strong. The supershrimp macroalgae tends to become paler and thinner under really strong light.
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dilandau
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Re: Lighting for Macroalgae
hi there !
so i posted about this on a topic i started called "white worms: friend or foe?" but basically i had my tank mooching off my terrarium light when it started out and algae grew like mad! there were two 800 lumen LED light bulbs on a plug-in socket/extension cord in a homemade light-box "system" lighting both a terrarium and a 2 gallon tank.
months after all the animals were introduced, i had larvae, berried females and even baby snails. then my tank nearly crashed when i changed my light system to a pink grow light that only have the blue and red spectrum. so i learned the hard way that algae doesn't grow in pink grow lighting system.
i now have it on ts own separate light box with a 800 lumen LED bulb and they all seem a but more happy now.
thought i should put my 2 cents here on what not to do.
so i posted about this on a topic i started called "white worms: friend or foe?" but basically i had my tank mooching off my terrarium light when it started out and algae grew like mad! there were two 800 lumen LED light bulbs on a plug-in socket/extension cord in a homemade light-box "system" lighting both a terrarium and a 2 gallon tank.
months after all the animals were introduced, i had larvae, berried females and even baby snails. then my tank nearly crashed when i changed my light system to a pink grow light that only have the blue and red spectrum. so i learned the hard way that algae doesn't grow in pink grow lighting system.
i now have it on ts own separate light box with a 800 lumen LED bulb and they all seem a but more happy now.
thought i should put my 2 cents here on what not to do.