Thanks for the comment about my videos!
At your stage I only had lights on for 8 hours per day, later 10 to 12 is normally ok.
However, with the light in our home, the C250 has all the light it needs and that has been one of my own location problems.
I would say 9 hours a day at your stage will work fine, you could also try a couple of days leaving the lights off to hit that algae hard!
These days just use 2 bags of activated carbon and 2 bags and Boyd Chemi-Pure Elite.
That was how I started and I played with us stuff but went back to my K.I.S.S. formula.
[Keep It Simple Sir]
I change 1 bag of each every 2 months, new bags go in the bottom 2 shelves the other 2 bags moving up to the top 2 shelves. It works for me and I fill my own bags of activated carbon.
Now let us talk about water changes, 10% a week is the minimum, but often I do a 20% water change.
Water change is every Saturday morning.
Water get changed once a week when I change some of my water doing the water change every Saturday morning.
Did I remember to mention water change?
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