[AgMa]

Nice start!
You could have all bulbs on but with different colours, so you will not be high in par and have perfect colours.

 

[AgMa]

I'm currently just using a ball valve instead of the float valve, but when I open it up again to make more RO water, my output TDS starts off skyhigh at like ~100ppm. It drops back down to ~7-10ppm after a minute or so. Is this normal?

Yeah it is normal because there are salts in the membrane. You can flush the membrane before every use to avoid that.

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LOL, ban this robot :biggrin:

 

[AgMa]

One thing I have noticed on most heavily dosed tanks, is that they all have/had BBA. Maybe too much Po4?
I have meet every algae that exist, but never BBA and I think it's due to I never dosed so much Po4.

 

[AgMa]

Never had BBA (maybe the odd clump)

I dose 6ppm PO4 weekly plus a heavy fish load... very high light. I don't think it's PO4 related.

Just a thought. Every journal I follow (Burr, Gregg, Slipfinger) I see BBA issues.
Maybe it's also some sort of imbalance.