I understand the purpose on a reef tank. I always use them.
My question was about using one on startup just to battle the initial algae then take it offline.
Either, way, it's probably just best to stick to proven methods at this point and start the bowfront all over. It's an algae bomb because of lack of CO2 and not enough plants. Plus I really think there was a bunch of gunk built up in the plain gravel on the bottom that caused problems.
Steven
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