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Anyone have experiences with the drop scrubbers or thoughts about comparing the drop scrubbers to the other scrubbers from Santa Monica?

Any reviews or experience with these?

Anyone have any reviews of the Santa Monica Drop .2 or Drop .6 (effectiveness, durability, noise, etc.)?

I'm thinking of getting one or two of one of these for my Red Sea 130D (34 g. cube)?
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Thanks for the quick reply.

I'd love to hear updates too from folks as people start to use it.

Is it safe to mount the air pump below the tank if you use an air check valve? I don't want to take any risk of flooding my floor.

If air check valves work consistently to prevent back siphoning,...

I have an original HOG.5 mounted in the display a a nano cube 28 that has been moderately successful.

I had a few questions about the DROP.2.....

1. I'm wondering if the LED being underwater...

I've been running a HOG.5 since Jan on my nano cube 28 with CF lights and 2 RBTA, 3 fish, sofites, LPS, a few sps, macros and a few snails. I have not changed my water for 2.5 months and my water...

Any ideas or suggestions for mounting the LED side of HOG.5 to the back glass without magnets?

Do I need to be careful about what what I tape or glue to the outside of this due to overheating?

That's a good point. If I try this, I'll plan to monitor the growth on the inside glass and acrylic and possibly plan to brush it clean a couple times a week if necessary.

Santa Monica, Floyd...

I want to move my HOG.5 to my back compartment of my nano cube 28. The LED half of the HOG.5 will be duct taped or mounted to the outside back glass. The inside portion of the HOG.5 will be mounted...

I have not been able to get all of the red turf off, especially between the holes. I'll poke something between the holes to clean it up better and see if that helps.

Thanks for the responses. One more question......based on what your seeing on the picture, should I increase or lower my bubble rate? I have an adjustable bubbler.

I've let it go three weeks recently and it did not seem to help. I had a few follow up questions.....

1. Is it true that placing the top of the HOG.5 just above the water line helps the water...

4400I have a HOG.5 (old style with 2 leds) on my nano cube 28 mixed reef. Light running 16 hours; it was burning with more. Attached is a photo after 17 days since cleaning. I've been rubbing the...

I have to take my HOG.5 UAS out of my tank for a day or two to fix the magnets and re-add some clear silicone to seal the magnets. The silicone needs to be out of the water for 24 hours to cure.
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No problem. I'll post anything I find here. If other folks know of resources, please post here too.

Does anyone have any research, studies, testing examples, etc. that demonstrates the above quote happening in practice in tanks with scrubbers or UAS? Also, are you aware of articles that explain...

I have a 28 g. nano cube with a HOG.5.

Here is my screen 10 days after the first cleaning. I waited 30 days to clean the first time. Currently, my light runs 16 hours.

Should I clean the...

Iron, huh. I just read some interesting articles about dosing with iron being helpful, especially if you are growing macro algae (which I do have some in my tank....red grape, codium, and dragon's...

Any ideas of a safe way to reduce burning with the two LED models like sanding the LEDs to diffuse the light more?

I just cleaned my screen for the first time with water and a toothbrush and I was surprised how strong the algae was attached to the screen and how some of the algae needed a firm scrubbing to get...

Are you saying to scrape and rinse the whole thing OR try to only scrape off the dark stuff (if so, how do you do this?)

Thank you for all of your help so far!

Day 29 Photo attached. Is it time to clean the screen yet?

If so, do you brush it with toothbrush and rinse all of the algae off or try to leave some on there.

I'm up to 16 hours of light for...

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Here is a photo of my HOG.5 on day 24 in my 28 g. nano cube. I started with 8.5 hours of light, 10 hours day 19, 11 hours day 21, 12 hours day 20 until now.

As you can see the growth is...

I've read of folks getting a nutrient spike when cleaning there scrubbers and having a negative reaction from corals for a couple of days especially on smaller tanks.

Any ideas how to limit this...

I've been battling cyno for a long time and nothing seems to help. I'm thinking about trying ChemiClean but I added a HOG.5 upflow algae scrubber on my tank a little more than 3 weeks ago.

Can...

I've read the recommended flow rates for the vertical waterfall designs. I'm curious, if you were building a single sided vertical waterfall for a small tank with low bioload (feed 1/8 cube per...

Would you pull out the chemipure or purigen too???

Would you suggest leaving the phosban or taking it out?

Awesome tank......great work.

P.S. The HOG.5 UAS you gave me is starting to work. I'm pumped. Thanks!

Being from Minnesota....I appreciate any opportunity to give folks from Iowa a hard time. The Hawkeyes football team took Floyd back this year so we're still a little bitter.

I saw a couple of LA Fish Guy videos that highlighted a scrubber that he said was build by Santa Monica. Does Santa Monica still sell this one? If not, who does? Where can you get info on it?

Here is an updated photo of the Bryopsis in my display. I pulled some out some but my HOG.5 (and/or my phosban, chemipure or purigen) does seem to be helping it to die. The UAS has been in 17 days....

Here is my screen after 17 days. I'm running my light 8.5 hours per day. See details of tank and photo below. Should I change anything yet (increase light, increase feeding, remove my phosban,...

I just started using a HOG.5 UAS in my 28g. cube with live rock, fish, lots of softies, 2 lps, 1 sps and 2 RBTA? I'm still having problems with hair algae but my I just started the scrubber a week...

Found it.......

http://algaescrubber.net/forums/showthread.php?2209-Waterchanges-and-Old-Tank-Syndrome

This is a really interesting thread.

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Does leaving the algae in the display help the scrubber to grow faster OR is it just a good way to prove when the scrubber starts to work?

Is this the type of algae you most want to grow in a UAS? This is a photo of a piece in my tank before I'm going to pull it out and do a peroxide treatment on it. It is about 1" tall right now.
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No growth yet. Screen is still white.

I added a HOG.5 to my 28 g. nano one week ago. The screen is not green yet. Should I wait to increase my light past 8.5 hours per day until I see green or should I increase some now since it's been...

I recently read a brief summary of an article on how many metals occur in super elevated levels in aquariums vs. the ocean. It also talked about how scrubbers help lower these concentrations.

I,...

In order to get it to work faster, would it help to rub in hair algae into the screen and NOT rinse it off so there are visible pieces of algae on the screen?

OR does this defy the reef concept...

Very interesting article....thanks for the reference.

Is there a similar scientific article analyzing what is pulled out of the tank with a scrubber or UAS by analyzing the algae removed????

I've read about a few folks that stop doing water changes (or do them 1 time per year) when they start running a scrubber in coral and fish tanks.

I'm assuming those folks need to dose multiple...

Christopher Marks on Nano-Reef in his article about natural filtration writes....

"Studies of skimmers have shown that they remove various trace elements, along with pods and plankton. When people...

Don't most folks have success without a skimmer? If the scrubber is enough, aren't you just at risk for pulling out too many useful nutrients with the skimmer?

I don't really know these things....

I just added to HOG.5 to my 28 g. nano cube 4 days ago. I have not seen any green on my screen yet even though I did rub some algae on there before starting. I have not seen any reduction or death...

This one looks nice. http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/299435-diy-internal-algae-turf-scrubber-for-biocube-29/

Santa Monica.....thank for your reply. I had read the instructions a while ago and did not remember that was in there. If folks are wondering, the instructions say the "LEDs use 7 watts of power."

I know the new HOG.5 has one 3 watt light. Someone gave me a HOG.5 (really cool of him) but it is a model with 2 LED lights.

How powerful are each of these LEDs?

How long should I leave...