santa double check my scrubber plz

[new2scrub]

just wanted to make sure I got everything right last year when I built my scrubber because I am growing more turf algae than ever before.

My scrubber screen is 9" tall and 16" wide

slot is 1/8"

flow is aprox. 500gph via a mag 5 pump

It is lit by four 23 watt cfl (2 each side) installed in 8" metal clamp on reflectors ,,,2700k of course:)

my tank is a 45 gallon mixed reef with 5 fish and I feed 3-4 jumbo homemade cubes per day

my nitrate and po4 hover around 5ppm down to 0 ppm

my fish and corals all look great as well as water clarity BUT I am growing a lot of hair algea in the display tank in areas of hi flow i/e powerheads/nozels/overflow

[new2scrub]

forgot to mention that dinos are taking over ,,long stringy strands of brown goo all over my corals and rock work causing some corals to close up for hours at a time,,,,any tips?

[SantaMonica]

When did you replace bulbs...

[new2scrub]

replaced bulbs 2 weeks ago I was about 2 weeks past the 3 month mark(late) oops

[Rumpy Pumpy]

forgot to mention that dinos are taking over ,,long stringy strands of brown goo all over my corals and rock work causing some corals to close up for hours at a time,,,,any tips?


I used to get that when I was running my horizontal, although I didn't recognise it as dino's at the time.

I think it was caused because I was using ceramic tiles as a screen which, I now suspect, were leaching silicates feeding the dinos.


As soon as I stopped using the tiles the brown fluffy stuff stopped too.


Is it possible you have a source of silicate in your system somewhere?

[SantaMonica]

Need complete pics of everything, including screen before and after cleaning.

Mean time, you can cut feeding in half.

[new2scrub]

ok i will get the pics but bare with me ,,i am a bit tied up for the next few days