Green growth.

[fishboii]

How do i get it..

[kerry]

You need proper flow, proper light, and the proper size screen for your tank. What is your set-up and how long you been up and running? Any Pics??

[fishboii]

More information on my other post i made
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1564 (http://algaescrubber.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1564)

[kerry]

How long has it been set-up? I have my lights about 2.5-3" away from my screen they are the 23W CFL spiral type. I have three of these Scrubbers on SW tanks and it took a while before I started getting any type of green. I am still working on getting the really green algae. I just make improvements as I can and its getting better all the time. I just added four 660nm 3 watt LED's to my 10G nano I have high hopes for this as it seems to be getting a better green growth, a few more days and we will know for sure. You are at 10PPM nitrate so its working!! Have fun and experiment, you will get it. I am sure the experts on here will have some valuable info as well.

[fishboii]

Been setup for about 2 months now. The growths are getting thicker. But not greener.

[kerry]

I added iron to my tank as SM suggested and its a bit greener now but not that bright green as SM posts in his pics. Either way its working and my nitrates are super LOW now. I suspect mine is still the brown/green-ish due to lack of light and flow.

[iggy]

I upgraded my ATS this week.

I added 2 more F24T5 Sylvania bulbs and I changed ATS pump from 45 watt pump to 65w Eheim 1260. I also changed sump pump from Eheim 1260 to Mag 18 which pushes limits of an Oceanic "Reef Ready" 140. Tank turnover went from 4X to 8-9X. Screen is 14WX22T that is now lit 4 F24T5 on one side and 2 on other instead of one side. I expect to have green algae this week. Mag 18 will heat tank as well into fall.

I had lingering cyano so I added more flow to everything.

Also I dropped screen one hole down. It doesn't sound like much but it reduced spray a lot. I will also finally put EuroReef CS8-2 on ebay.

[kerry]

Thats great!! I did a little updating to my scrubber today as well. I had lights on the outside shinning through the acrylic with big cone shaped reflectors. Now I have them in the scrubber tank with home made reflectors which puts them closer to the screen. I modified the slots and added more so I do not get much spray and splash as had before. The flow down the screen is better as well.
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[iggy]

I'm getting green hair algae tufts on edge of spray bar already and on a few spots. The screen is usual brown except where it is lit front and back in middle. I'll post a picture end of week.

[kerry]

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Here is a pic from Tuesday night. The screen was cleaned Sunday afternoon. I have a hard time getting green growth as well. It more green around the edges then the middle even with the light closer and the flow improved a bit. I even dose a little iron too.

[iggy]

Screen got much greener this week, only where screen was lit from back and front. I cut light back to 12 hrs/day next week.

I still have some lingering brown algae on top of sand. Hard to get camera phone to get green over a yellow intense light.

[fishboii]

My nitrates are 0, from the test kit reads
Phosphates are probably low.
Starting to see sponges grow on rocks i think.

But yeah still not getting green growth =/
As long as there's zero readings right?

[SantaMonica]

Right... pretty much.