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I had the same thing and thought it was due to heat.

To get around it I am now using a stepped light cycle which is 3 on 1 off.

I realise that due to experiments conducted on here it may not...

Dont know how suitable they would be but one word of warning.

I have read that such items are coated in fungicide which will have an adverse affect on your tank.

If you do use them wash them...

Brilliant idea and if the new LED luminaires are anything to go by they may work, have a look on Kcress' threads though as he built an LED panel with various LEDs but I dont think the results were...

Thought that might have been the problem!

Glad you got to the bottom of this in time for your corals. :D

I personally have not used the 2-Pin type of bulb but there could be a few fators that close which are:

heat (remember algae too needs to be kept as cool as the tank)
UV
Light intensity
Light...

Recent post from Worley regarding zinc



Is there a reason for this? Broders having problems with corals, Worleys using polypads, it would appear that reading between the lines a few people are...

In a word, Yes!

What lights are you using?

Playing devils advocate I feel that the purpose of an ATS has been somewhat misplaced.

I know this may raise a few eyebrows, however please hear me out.

Talking of my own experience, I set up...

Broder,

I have a theory here but it does need some additional data to put in to practice or indeed share.

You mention a weight of yield per week, forgive me if this has been posted, but can you...

aha! I understand!

So the question would be would SW kalk deter pods?

Any comments welcome!

Kcress, a quick question if I may, I too am at present a fan of the horizontal and have achieved what I set up to do which is no phosphate none of the nitrogen family and abundant pods for fish and...

I must say SM thats odd as it was you that gave me the idea! :D

Thanks for the ocnstructive and informative reply Chris!

I was actually thinking of using quite a high salt content to provide huge porosity throughout the tile, then as you say through the curing...

Aha, theres the level of thought i was looking for! I knew there must have been a reason for it not being a succesful as anticipated!

FW probably will strick the bacteria and cause more unforseen...

Nice results and brilliant test results!

One week in and the difference sounds fantastic!

Not wanting to open old wounds but the horizontals seem to get started so much quicker them verticals...

Thanks Rainer,

To be honest it was your and Kcress' threads that got me thinking.

To clarify, I was thinking of creating more of a man made live rock bed to have the dual purpose of bacteria...

I have been lucky enogh to have been given a 2 foot cube tank and will be designing a filter with a holistic approach to all requirements.

Having read Kcress' ceramic thread I had the thought of...

I used to work in the plastics industry and later healthcare and then just added to my knowledge via google and....

Polycarbonate should be 'Biologically Inert' and due to this is used in medical...

Whilst surfing the internet I happened across the following site:

http://www.unitedutilities.co.uk/waterqualitydetail.htm

Only really usefull for UK Scrubbers but once you put in your postcode...

To be honest only really usefull for the UK Scrubbers here but I did find a fantastic link for United Utilites which you put your postcode in and it gives you the FULL breakdown of your tapwater!
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I think that should be your starting point! As outlined in the articles posted earlier it may be a change in the source water, you never know, it may be changes in the local ecology which have...

It would seem that some people are aware of the problems you have described although you do state you do do regular water changes.

I am unsure of what the properties NSW (natural salt water?) is...

Not knowing your tank design I don't know whether this is of use or not but......

I read quite an interesting article from a link on this site where somebody had used a length of gutter at the...

Good luck in your endeavours!

I have to admit my horizontal design is doing wonder for my tank and I have not as of yet hit any pitfalls.

I also like your idea of two T8's but that would be too...

morrisons now 20w CFL 2 packs, 20p each, buy 1 get two free!

30 20w CFL bulbs £1!

Oops, I think our posts crossed in the ether!

Now I think it looks great! I like the way your assembly room is full of clutter! Thought it was just me! ;)

I like it!

Only suggestion is get some mirror or other reflective into the light box. Any light coming through the box is being wasted.

Keep up the good horizontal work! :)

freudian slip perhaps? :lol:

"Building and operating a horizontal simply leaves less room for errors." SantaMonica

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The turf you can see is budding all over the screen and in fact is more prelevant on the second screen which was described as useless. ...

I wanted to wait until cleaning day to put my response up here.

Initially I was a little put off by the elitist comments regarding my design but at the end of the day every mans opinion is his own...

Welcome aboard!

Sounds like a plan but forgive my ignorance, 4 baby bottles?

What are these for?

Cheers

I am using a very rough gouged and generally abused sheet of acrylic with a single layer of mesh.

I was using the acrylic alone with good results and added the mesh recently and it exploded with...

Due to popular demand I have taken some pics and built my scrubber in Sketch Up to share my experiences.

Due to current set up and space constraints I decided to go down the horizontal route for...

Thanks for the info!

Due to my nature I am a tinkerer by heart and the current system I have includes 2 horizontal scrubbers, 1 major, 1 minor flow off and a fuge underneath.

I will be taking...

Would have thought B&Q would have been cheaper but thanks for the info i will look them up!

Sanwhich in between the two layers!

I had some grow on my mark 1 acrylic sheet screen and when I added the mesh screen it grew through and seeded the rest.

Good to have another UK Scrubber!
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Thanks for the replies guys.

To be honest, and may sound like a dumb statement, I thought pods were tiny, these guys seem to be getting bigger by the day and some are about 1cm / 1/2".

I think...

Hi all,

I have had my scrubber up and running since June this year with great results. I have made a few changes recently so dont have any in use pics for you all to see.

Since installing the...

Really only for the UK scrubbers but thought I would let you know that I went to my local Tesco yesterday and they have thier own brand 23 CFL bulb for just £1!

The growth is 1 day after cleaning, the first pics on the thread were taken yesterday!

Just out of interest what screen material do you use?

Hi Wortley good to see another uk "Scrubber"!

In hind sight the pictures sent through previously were not really fit for purpose so I have cleaned up the tank and taken the following:
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Hi KCress and thanks for the positive reply!

Please see below images of the installation.

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Unit...

A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across this site through a very informative article on another site.

Reading through the information I started to realise that everything made perfect sense to me...