Day 12:
Type: Posts; User: Gigaah
Day 12:
Day 11:
Day 10: Increasing spots of green
things are starting to take off. Wonder if it has more to do with time, or the addition of the live stock. Either way I'm happy. Water parameters remain on the OK...
6x5 double sided would be rock solid if built right. The one I made for the last 55g was 3x sized and I swear you could just about pee in the tank and it wouldn't flinch.LOL
I made a scrubber for...
Day 8: Added one small fish.
Day 9: Spots of green
Misc but sparse green dots randomly on the screen.
Day 8: light brown
I have a sealed 1.6gallon pico aquarium. at 74 degrees F ambient its running 84+. I was contemplating using a peltier cooler to make a cooling unit for it. Either cutting a hole in the side of the...
Day 7: washed off most of the light brown
DAY 6: light brown same as day 5
I'm on Nano-reef.com as Gigaah. I spend a lot of time in the lighting and pico forum but general as well.
I found this site a couple years ago while I was setting up my 55 gallon tank. Searching...
Good point. That would probably be better. In my case this is a one sided application so it will serve my particular purpose.
As I said before I only really did it because the concept sounded...
The picture just makes it look thick. At worst its twice as thick as a normal screen.. but probably not even that thick.
I have not weighted it. I suppose I could when I clean it....
Its fairly light. Certainly not heavy enough to be concerned about weight. The algae growth on a mature screen far exceeds the weights...
Day 4: Definitely some yellow greenish color specs on the screen
Day 3. Nothing. I seem some specs in the screen. But i'm not sure if its algae or just particulate.
Day 2. Zero growth
I could do that. However I'm using LED lights and at this point the general consensus is that my light should include red. I'm all warm white. So that will impact the situation. It will be difficult...
Unknown. A stiff bristled brush might do the trick...I guess I will find out in the coming weeks.
Yes. That is baked in to regular plastic #7 canvas. It is very much melted into the canvas. I scraped it with a putty knife not much more than dust came off. I even hit it with a hammer. I am pretty...
Here is the screen I think I'm going to use. Baked fine aragonite sand into a standard nylon craft screen. I think it will work great..and It was a lot less work.
Here you go. 450 Degrees F. for 20 minutes.
I used a baking pan. layer of fine aragonite sand. screen down. cover screen in sand. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove..press down..run water over it and...
I posted a link to my build. But I figured I'd post the pictures of the scrubber here just for this site. The screen effective area is roughly 4"x4". Currently going to try out 7 1w warm white LED...
Yeah I didn't have much of a limit on space when that one was being built. So was able to go really cheap. My new pico scrubber however I am VERY limited on space. So much so I have to head down the...
Apparently great minds think alike. Here is a picture of a scrubber I built but never used. Its about 12x12. My lights are oriented differently tho. I used magnetic cabinet latches to hold the light...
I think it would be better technically. coral sand is more porous than the nylon screen.
However I'm not sure if it would be better in practice..or better enough to make much difference. I got a...
I didn't really get that far into the idea. It was just more to represent the concept i just drew it up in Google sketch-up quick. I'm sure a little thought would yield a good solution.
you could...
As long as you can feed both screens with light and water thats fine
I like the idea of trying to find another method to get water on the screen. Pipes are hands down the easiest thing but they are not perfect.
The basic idea can be adpated to a 2 sided design....
I think the easiest route to go would be making it 8L x 10H
This way you can shade the top inch(so the slot doesn't grow over) and have the bottom inch in water. You will have an effective screen...
I like the idea of baking it in agronite. If I knew for sure what type of plastic it was I could tell you what temp to set the oven at. Its probably nylon so about 270 degrees F..if its HDPE about...
http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.p ... try3431793
Well there is one thumbs up for the scrubber effectiveness from someone who should really know. Nice link.
I understand the oppinions and methods or normal cycleing. Do you guys think starting with a scrubber changes things? Do you want to introduce nutrients to the tank to grow the algae and beef up the...
Well not quite "ultra" violet. More like violet. 405nm. Catch some of the volet range that you get from metal hailide lights that leds are lacking. True ultra violet leds are uber expensive anyhow.
Thanks for the specs on your light set up. That will give me a base line for what I'm doing.
Yes the part about anchoring the screen does make sense. in fact the overflow design was specifically...
Thats not a bad idea. I was worried from a previous post by another experienced LED user that 9w was going to be too much. If I get more I could add red as some have suggested. I might be ordering...
I think due to the highly focused nature of LED's using the 1w per sq inch is too much from what I understand. using a single sided screen its recommended 2sq" per gallon..and I'm all about overkill...
I had already determined evaporation would be an issue. So my design will be sealed to prevent it. I also was thinking of puttting a very small bottle upside down in the scrubber area. So when the...
So I got myself into the whole Pico reef frenzy. I'm planning on building a 1.5g Pico(10Lx6x6). due to aesthetics I'm going to have to go with a single sided screen. I do plan on hanging the screen...
it will take some time
slow progress but its moving along when I get the time. I make the light panels removable.
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If it grows really fast and its oversized your nutrients are pretty high. I recommend cleaning both sides every 3-5 days. Again with out pics of growth at X days its hard to tell. At least clean one...
Well constructed.
My suggestion is if your making a reflector.
Make it so the light from the end of the bulb is reflected forward towards the screen. A substantial portion of the bulbs output...
I'm not sure if the used watts of the LED is a perfect indicator. I'm assuming that a 3w led that puts out 100lm runs hotter than a 3w LED that puts out 300 lumens simply because more of the energy...
It does that too. But it really came about as a cost saving measure.
Interesting idea. water in both ends. Have you tried this/seen the results rygh?
If I can use roughly the same wattage per sq inch and use just warmwhite I could light a 10x15 vertical double...
Yes, It would have an impact. Obviously you'd have two seperate screens seperated by 2-3 inches(due to the "T" piece). I don't know for sure if it would be helpful or makes matters worse to be honest...
I'm curious how this one works out. Mainly interested in how effective that reflector is.
Well I've been really busy with work 65+hrs a week. Not to mention the fact that apparently no brick and mortar ANYWHERE in the area carries acrylic weld(weld-on or anything). SO I took a trip to the...
Hey Rygh can you give me a quick idea as to the lumens or atleast wattage of LED you used over what sq in area?