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I would leave it at 6/6, like it was. 24/7 lighting is not natural - all living things (plants & algae included) need dark time.

If you want to increase intensity, remove the diffusers and leave the 6/6/6/6 schedule in place.

 

...that's why I say don't mess with it - you're getting great growth with the 6/6 alternating scenario that you used in the week prior to that cleaning video. So why change it?

I would leave it and monitor the growth over the next month to see if there are any changes. If you had an algae problem in your tank, it is possible that the scrubber algae is growing well because it is 'cleaning up' your tank. This concept (of pulling nutrients from the rock/sand) is a point of current debate, but if that is indeed what happens, it is likely that the mechanism is a combination of bacteria chemical reactions (in the form of Bacterial Cleaving) and algal allelopathy (when a low nutrient environment exists) that causes the release of bound nutrients (phosphate) from solid form.

So the long and short is that you should probably leave well enough alone - if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

 

Oh now I see...I misread the thread. You were using the 6/6 schedule, then you bumped it up to 24/7.

In that case, the only thing I would change is maybe putting in a 2 hour dark period, but even that would be fixing what is not broken.

If you were to remove the diffusers to increase the overall intensity, I would probably back the lighting off to 18 on / 6 off at least. But again...ain't broke...

 

You could probably drill a hole in the lid and put in a wide-angle miniature camera and watch at least one side grow.

 

LOL...only the warranty on the lid

 

Wow. Textbook 3D growth!