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It came into my mind before! You worked it out, amazing!

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Good news is that two tangs eat flake food now, and bad news is that I hurted Goniopora when I replace it, now several heads of the goniopora is not extending very long as the other heads.

Yes, my tank is still quite empty now. I think the most of the nutrition that the scrubber get is from the rocks. And I will test the water frequently.

But I worry about the algaes on the...

And I washed other half of the scrubber last night.
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after washing
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I think the algae is turning white. It looks not so green as last cleaning, and it was easier to scrape away.
Is there...

Ace25, sorry I cannot open the video. I am thinking of combining part of a big plastic bottle and a pipe to make a bowl that you mentioned yesterday, with what I can add food through the pipe.
As...

Thanks for your warning. Two tangs do not eat particle food now, but they always eat the algae on the tank and rocks.

Now I see that fishes and carols are much more complex and difficult than ATS....

Yes, it should be cm. My mistake to have bought flowpot corals, now I must try.
Would you like to tell me how and what to feed the flowpot coral?

OH no, I add 2 fish and 2 LPS today.
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Hope that they will survive.

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tests were good.
PH=8.3, KH=8, NO2,NO3,PO4 close to 0.
the only one fish is OK now.
I cleaned half of the scrubber yesterday.
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After cleaning
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Scrubber is ok now, and the green algae grows very fast.
But sadly
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po4 no3 no2 were tested OK.
I don't know why:(

KH is >=8

I tested the water yesterday and fist fish come in!
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I washed the scrubbers this morning for the second time.
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At the bottom of the ats, also many algae lives.
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You give me a lot of information and knowledge.
I think I know how to solve the bubbles problem now.
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I extend the tube down to the bottom of the tank, but bubbles are still there.
I just cannot make the flow steady through a slot, so I have to drill holes on a very narrow slot.(the slot is just...

little holes on the slot.

but there are still some problems to solve.
First of all, the bubbles.
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I don't know if increasing the lenth of pipe will be useful of not.

and the 5mm acrylic begin to swell because of the...

It‘s very kind of you for giving me so many advise, thank you very much.

I did some improvement yesterday.
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The slot and holes looks better.
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Make it giving water both sides.
1997...

But my tank is 60cm*60cm*55cm, it cannot keep so many fish=.=

The screen is full now.
If i remove half of the screen, lighting would be wasted.

I've bought one more pump, increase water flow.
Will it be okey?

You mean wash half the screen?

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I think the pump is not strong enough, so the water cannot cover the scrubbers fully.
I have ordered another same pump, it will give water on the...

Finally, the tank arrived:o

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My ATS on the tank.
24W 4000K lighting.
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another side.

Thanks

I do want to have corals with few fish. But excuse me what is the 'SW tank'?
My poor English~~:confused:

Because everyone around me tell me to get a protein separator at least, but I still insist on ATS only.
They weakened my confidence, so I came here to find it back;)

Thank you!

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much better now!

Except ATS, what equipment else I need to filter?

Thanks again Kerry, you guys are always so nice and helped me a lot!

The pipe is 60cm lenth, the flow is about 4000L/H.
So how wide should the slot be?

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I used a big cutting machine in a windows' factory, maybe I need this kind of tool to burnish, right?
Thanks for your encourages, Kerry, I will try it when my tank arrives this weekend....

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I don't know how to make the slot of the pipe smooth.

mark!

hi Floyd, thanks for your suggestion. Because I am a layman of lights and my English is also poor, I don't very understand what kind of lights the e-Shine fixtures is. I also considered LED, but I...

I have no idea about how much to feed yet, as I mentioned I would try from less to more, meanwhile pay attention to water quality. Is that Ok?
And I plan to start with about 25 kilograms live...

The problem is that I can get at least 6500K tubes for such lamp holder product.
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Hi Goondoo,
How is your tank running now? I plan to DIY a ATS like yours too, but now the lighting problem troubles me.
Would you like to tell me the color tempreture of your lighting?


mark!

It's two tubes of 24 watts on each side, total 48 watts on each side. Do you mean each tube should be 48 or 72 watts? Since my tank has not been set up yet, I think i would keep very few fish at...

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Here is my sketch，I think it's something like SM100.
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here is the lights i choose.
Sorry for my poor English
Thanks for more advise！

I just planed in my mind. If the light of 6500K is OK, I will make it and post here.

Thanks for your information!

The reflector of the lights is about 14cm, still not enough?
Because I read some articles about ATS, it is said that the best light is 2700K-3000K, over 4500K will be useless.

No， I have TWO 30*15 screens， together it should be 60*15，so length is OK. I plan to use two on both sides.

two T5HO-24w 6500K Fluorescent cubes
light OK for ATS?

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Odyssea T5HO 60cm
with two T5HO-24w 6500K Fluorescent cubes
work on ATS?

If not, what's the problem? Thanks!

Is spotlight the same as fluorescent cubes?
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Will this works?
Odyssea T5HO 60cm
with two T5HO-24w 6500K Fluorescent cubes

what kind of bulb do you mean by 23 watts for each?Fluorescent lamp? I think it's hard to find such kind of lamps in 60cm.
Most lamps about 60cm is 14 watts~~~:confused:

Thank you for your explain,kotlec!

In fact, I desighed 2 screens, each is 30cm X 15cm screen. So I should have at least 144 total watts, right?

As my poor English, how much is "6 cubes of food"?

Thanks for your quick reply for my questions. Now i decided to DIY a ATS for my new tank(60L60W55H) and alive stones(活石). My scrubbers are two pieces（30cm*15cm） with lights both sides.
Here are my...