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Old 04-17-2014, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by nrosdal View Post
I also experienced the same issue when i jacked my whites up to increase growth of coral (it did that but also spurred algae growth as well). In the short term i found that lowering white channel helped a ton until i got my phos under control then slowly raised the white channel back to high.
As far as I know, Nick. The white doesn't actually do anything except aesthetics. Corals need the blues. If you ran a reef with just whites, everything would die!

I would attribute your algae to diatoms, which is a normal progression of a cycle during the new-tank-syndrome phase. I'm going to assume your tank is pretty young?
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