Centralscot
07-28-2014, 12:44 PM
Hi, in May this year, 2014, i bought a drop .2 scrubber from your santamonica website, it has been running since then in 2 different tanks, it was on and off for 2 or 3 light periods at first, then on for around 18 hours, it grew dark, almost black algae, on reading santamonicas info, it seemed to me it needed more light so i took out the light blocker and increased the light to 21 hours. its still on at that. Off from 10am till 1pm when the main lights are on. The algae still seems to be quite dark on the green grabber material but has grown a fluffy algae on the inside of the lid. Its a bit odd as when i try to remove some of it, its like squeezing water melon. The water parameters are PH 8.2, Ammonia, 0 Nitrite 0, Nitrate 2, Phosphate 0.02, Calcium 480, Carb KH 10 & SG 1.025
There is still hair algae on the rocks and some brown on the sand but i had bought the live rock from a guy and the nitrate and phos readings were thru the roof, it also had an infestation of aiptasia and bristleworms, but between using x-aiptasia and adding 2 peppermint shrimps, the aiptasia has all but gone and worms are far far less, might be due to the adding a red dragonet which im told can eat small bristleworms.
Fish are 4 percula clowns, a red dragonet and a yellow tailed blue damsel. 2 peppermint shrimps a dancing shrimp and 6 algae hermit crabs along with some new frags and my now spreading xenia coral
I know the drop.2 is too small for this amount of fish but i have a powerfull 1200 tetra canister filter so i was hoping the scrubber would deal with just the nitrate and phosphate.
This is my first attempt at posting on here so i hope ive attached the pix showing the drop.2 and tank fotos
Garry
There is still hair algae on the rocks and some brown on the sand but i had bought the live rock from a guy and the nitrate and phos readings were thru the roof, it also had an infestation of aiptasia and bristleworms, but between using x-aiptasia and adding 2 peppermint shrimps, the aiptasia has all but gone and worms are far far less, might be due to the adding a red dragonet which im told can eat small bristleworms.
Fish are 4 percula clowns, a red dragonet and a yellow tailed blue damsel. 2 peppermint shrimps a dancing shrimp and 6 algae hermit crabs along with some new frags and my now spreading xenia coral
I know the drop.2 is too small for this amount of fish but i have a powerfull 1200 tetra canister filter so i was hoping the scrubber would deal with just the nitrate and phosphate.
This is my first attempt at posting on here so i hope ive attached the pix showing the drop.2 and tank fotos
Garry