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I would actually love for a design to be fully sealed from outside air since my house has incredibly high CO2 levels, which affects my tanks (daily pH peaks at ~7.8, night pH doesn't change too much...

No, the plastic wrap does not affect the growth - air still flows behind it. :)

Nothing but a touch of bryopsis growing on the screen. I guess I can add myself to the list of those are scrubber cursed. :(

Nope. Flow is several times what it was, PAR is around 250-300 on each side of the screen, and light duration was cut in half. Still no dice.

Well, you should a told me then :p

The last waterfall used some little waterfall pump from home depot, and it was great , and I would have used it again, but I managed to snap off bits of the...

So I switched from the MJ1200 to the Mag5 - holy damn, what a difference! It's ridiculous! Now there is a rapid sheet of water flowing evenly down the sheet instead of seeing water just trickle down....

Also forgot to mention that I got my diffuser screen stuff in, and has been put onto both heatsinks. PAR is around 280-350 on each side.

Cleaned the screen today. Still haven't adjusted the controller, too lazy to reprogram it to shorten the light cycle lol.

This is what came off:
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Still no hair algae growth. Just this grey gunk. I then realized I was still running that timer on 18 hours. Whoops :)

Gonna cut it in half and see what happens.

EDIT: Also remembered that I...

Of course! Go big or go home :)

10-4.

Oh, and here are pics of the old waterfall setup that was fantastic.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/jedimasterben/Aminals/Fishies/60g%20frag%20tank%20reef/2012_11_23__23_55_38.jpg

After...

Hey all. My attempts at a horizontal scrubber fail miserably, and an in-sump kinda-upflow-ish one didn't grow anything, either. So, eff it, went waterfall.

Started with this:...

I think what I'll do is do my best to afro-engineer a waterfall scrubber. Feed the living bajeezus out of the tank, and light both sides of it with different LEDs. One side being 10x 660nm and 2x...

Well, this is unfortunately a failure. The diatoms died off and nothing grow on the screen at all, so I took that sump down and replaced it with a standard 29g (really for reasons other than the...

I guess so! Lol


When I was there, they told me they used only algae scrubbers and carbon for filtration, maybe that part of the website is old? The guy had been there a while and seemed like he...

Also wanted to note - I went to visit the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce, FL a few weeks ago. They've got a massive-ass Caribbean reef tank, and a dozen other smaller displays, a mangrove...

Gotcha. I actually had it running higher, around the 1200 PAR mark, but I realized 'holy mother of god, that's just gonna fry everything!' and raised it by four inches. It is not dimmable, and...

Got it running this past weekend, it's got a light dusting of diatoms at this point.



Soooo, uhhh, is 800+ PAR a bad thing for a new scrubber?
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Oh yep, that's the one I'm talking about (but the lenses are built-in). The first pic is actually what I ran half my old waterfall scrubber on, that thing made some algae. It was just thrown together...

Lenses are built-in.

And no, the one I linked to earlier is a light for a display that FAR outpaces what the fuge light can do. Here's a link to some pics of the whole shebang and the PAR readings...

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It's a beast. 60 degree optics on them, though, so it'll have to be hung higher off the scrubber. No biggie, though, cause I measured 300 PAR at like 14" with it :)

I guess before I go out and buy a whole lot of Rebels, i could just use the light I made a while back for my fuge. 28x deep red and 6x royal blue at 700ma. The deep red should be putting out around...

So just load it up lol. Where should I start? I don't mind paying for the LEDs, but I don't particularly want to drop $100 when I only needed $60 or so. ;)

That beauty is one of two or three that will be going over a dedicated clam tank - simply because few corals will be able to handle the amount of light I'm shooting for. Basically, that is about 70w...

Hmm. I will have to see what I can do. The sump is already silicone'd together, but I should be able to slice off the horizontal bit and go from there. Hell, I can probably get a new piece of glass...

Well, it'll have plenty of flow (about double the recommended). Hmm, I wonder how high I can take the light then? (as in power level)

Not particularly. 'If Rebels (or other high-powered LEDs), use XX, if no-name, use XX'.

At any rate, so if I am using Rebels, I have much more light than is recommended. This will not increase the...

But shouldn't we go by output and not by count? Because those cheap knockoffs on ebay have around half the output of a Rebel.

Oh, I figured that the numbers for a horizontal scrubber would be equivalent to the 1 sided screen. Cool.

And I've been wondering - is the wattage based on Chinese '3w' LEDs or higher-output ones...

So it is a single cube screen, and needs 16x deep red LEDs like I had thought?

Hey guys. I made my new sump to have a combination of a skimmer, algae scrubber, and refugium (may or may not stay lit, depending on whether or not macroalgaes survive lol).

What do you think of...