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![]() guess i could add this in case anyone doesnt want to go browsing through the algaescrubber forumns its a basic diy for a scrubber im gonna use this and tweak it a bit
![]() http://www.livingreefs.com/build-alg...er-t32422.html
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![]() yup denny thats pretty much what mine is like just hang the screen and wait a week lol seeds itself and all you gotta do is harvest
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![]() I was looking at the link just posted. For those of you that use this design do you cut off the zip ties attaching the screen to the pipe each week when cleaning the screen?
Last edited by Palmer; 01-20-2012 at 03:08 PM. |
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![]() no zip ties here i cut a piece of thin wall pipe a size bigger than my feed pipe and use a coupe of them instead
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![]() Thanks for the info. Shall start a build right away
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![]() Very cool, and the million dollar question is: Is it helping your tank and nutrient levels?
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![]() global i doubled my feedings just to test it all out and found for the first time in 3 years i am running 0's in all my tests across the board, i brought a sample to the fish store and they got zeros too
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![]() Quote:
As for nutrient levels, I use a spectrophotometer from work to conduct my nitrate and phosphate tests. Nitrate and phosphate are pretty much undetectible now, although they were never very high. I don't put a lot of stock in test results. How the corals look, how much hair algae and cyano I have is more important to me. I'm not trying to advocate algae scrubbers. I'm just trying to share what is working for me. I tried the zeo approach and the bio-pellet approach, with RowaPhos, and they did not work for me. Nutrient test results were low, but hair algae was rampant and SPS growth had ground to a halt. I have a lot of fish in my tank, probably too many, and they have grown a lot in the past three years. Loonie-sized fish three years ago are now 8-10" in size. I tried this out of desperation and it is the only thing that has worked so far. |