Don't buy fish food. Don't replace filters. Instead, use your filter to feed your fish. MaramotReef on IG shows how it's done:
o The living, green growth can be put right into a fish feeder.
o...
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Don't buy fish food. Don't replace filters. Instead, use your filter to feed your fish. MaramotReef on IG shows how it's done:
o The living, green growth can be put right into a fish feeder.
o...
Don't buy fish food. Don't replace filters. Instead, use your filter to feed your fish. MaramotReef on IG shows how it's done:
o The living, green growth can be put right into a fish feeder.
o...
This DROP1.4 is dealing with lots of high nutrients in the water
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This DROP1.4 is dealing with lots of high nutrients in the water
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This DROP1.4x is full
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This DROP1.4x is full
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Another example of high nutrients in the water, leading to black growth in the scrubber. This HOG1.3 scrubber® only has two LED lights, but still pulls nutrients:
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Another example of high nutrients in the water, leading to black growth in the scrubber. This HOG1.3 scrubber® only has two LED lights, but still pulls nutrients:
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This brand new SURF4 scrubber® has its LED lid removed, and is floating in a large saltwater sump. It takes very little space; it stays above the live rock below it, and below the top of the sump,...
This brand new SURF4 scrubber® has its LED lid removed, and is floating in a large saltwater sump. It takes very little space; it stays above the live rock below it, and below the top of the sump,...
The slim thickness of the HOG1x (same as HOG1 and HOG.5) allows it to slide down into tight compartments.
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This is where a DROP scrubber® is really useful... back compartments of nano's. This photo is looking down on it:
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This is where a DROP scrubber® is really useful... back compartments of nano's. This photo is looking down on it:
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This DROP1.4 scrubber® has just been brushed clean in the sink. Looks like the black shade screen has been used, but it should not be, because the dark growth means it needs more light, not less.
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This DROP1.4 scrubber® has just been brushed clean in the sink. Looks like the black shade screen has been used, but it should not be, because the dark growth means it needs more light, not less.
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January 15, 2023 Stock update from Santa Monica Filtration:
0 - RAIN4 (1 week build time)
2 - RAIN2 with 4 GEM5 lights
2 - RAIN2 with 2 GEM5 lights
0 - RAIN2 with 1 GEM5 light (1 week build...
The DROP1.2 is available again. It's a mid-size version, and is in the middle of size, sound, lights, and growth area, of the Drop models.
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Part 2:
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The SURF2xx scrubber® is the most amount of light we have in this small size of a floating model. It has two separate power supplies; each one powering four LEDs in a zig-zag pattern.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/ny3APt_hkfM
https://www.facebook.com/SantaMonicaFil/videos/1179274969360223/
This new install of a RAIN4 in a saltwater sump, with the LED light dome lid removed,...
https://youtube.com/shorts/ny3APt_hkfM
https://www.facebook.com/SantaMonicaFil/videos/1179274969360223/
This new install of a RAIN4 in a saltwater sump, with the LED light dome lid removed,...
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https://youtu.be/7W3oGY1PfmI
https://www.facebook.com/SantaMonicaFil/videos/479375317690792
Available here:
https://www.santa-monica.cc/product.asp?itemid=67
Nano and All-In-One...
Here are some fun holiday colors, and some descriptions of waterfall growth on a RAIN2
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Here are some fun holiday colors, and some descriptions of waterfall growth on a RAIN2
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December 17, 2022 Stock update from Santa Monica Filtration:
0 - RAIN4 (2 week build time)
2 - RAIN2 with 4 GEM5 lights
2 - RAIN2 with 2 GEM5 lights
0 - RAIN2 with 1 GEM5 light (1 week build...
This HOG2, on the inside of a sump, has an internal water line that is lower than the water line of the sump. This is because not enough air is getting out of the hole at the top, which is usually...
This HOG2, on the inside of a sump, has an internal water line that is lower than the water line of the sump. This is because not enough air is getting out of the hole at the top, which is usually...
Some tanks have no sump at all, not even on the back. If there is enough floating space on top, and it won't block the lights, a SURF scrubber is a possible solution.
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Some tanks have no sump at all, not even on the back. If there is enough floating space on top, and it won't block the lights, a SURF scrubber is a possible solution.
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This SURF4 or 4x scrubber (tm), or one half of a SURF8 or 8x scrubber, shows worms and tar!
http://algaescrubber.net/forums/showthread.php?3740-Slime-is-the-best-filter
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This SURF4 or 4x scrubber (tm), or one half of a SURF8 or 8x scrubber, shows worms and tar!
http://algaescrubber.net/forums/showthread.php?3740-Slime-is-the-best-filter
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Since a HOG2 has no strings, there is nothing to get caught up in a brush when you are brushing it in your sink, which you need to do with freshwater growth.
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Photos and description updated.
Many people get desktop tanks as presents, and in January they start looking for small filters to fit them. The DROP.6 is a good first scrubber for this, since it...
Once the screen has filled in, and if there are a lot of nutrients going into the tank, this can be 7 to 10 days
Sorry for the delay. It looks pretty good for 2 weeks. But 4 lights is too much; use just 2 on the same side until all the screen holes fill in. Give it a light brushing now to get the brown slime...
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This DROP1.4 growth is beyond green or dark green, and is approaching brown or black which absorbs the most nutrients per gram of weight.
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This DROP1.4 growth is beyond green or dark green, and is approaching brown or black which absorbs the most nutrients per gram of weight.
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No the screen is not pink; it's just the deep red 660nm GEM5 lights on the inside of the RAIN2 dome.
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Coral Magazine has a multi-part article on scrubbers... here is part 1:
https://www.reef2rainforestservice.com/coral/de.php
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This is less Creature Goo, and more Ulva Fasciata from a SURF2 (or 2x or 2xx)
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This is less Creature Goo, and more Ulva Fasciata from a SURF2 (or 2x or 2xx)
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Not as much red in this holiday growth, but there is lots of mashed-up Cladophora, with some yellow slime and some brown slime. This actually should have been harvested/cleaned much sooner, because...
Not as much red in this holiday growth, but there is lots of mashed-up Cladophora, with some yellow slime and some brown slime. This actually should have been harvested/cleaned much sooner, because...
Coming back into stock now, the SURF2 scrubber®. Shown here is how you lift up the lid to view the growth.
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October 21, 2022 Stock update from Santa Monica Filtration:
0 - RAIN4 (2 week build time)
0 - RAIN2 with 4 GEM5 lights (1 week build time)
0 - RAIN2 with 2 GEM5 lights (1 week build time)
0 -...
This bubble-shaped growth, which only happens on the Green Grabber® strings (and not the white rocky surfaces), is rare and it's not known why it happens. It's not bubble algae (valonia species), but...
This HOG1x scrubber® from saltwater is (once again) mostly Cladophora with a little Ulva Fasciata on the bottom.
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This HOG1x scrubber® from saltwater is (once again) mostly Cladophora with a little Ulva Fasciata on the bottom.
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