If you have nothing, you get nothing. And when you do put livestock into the tank and feed, don't concentrate too much on how the algae looks/grows, concentrate on the...
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If you have nothing, you get nothing. And when you do put livestock into the tank and feed, don't concentrate too much on how the algae looks/grows, concentrate on the...
Its possible, but not recommended. You'd need to splice the positive and negative wires of both into a single higher gauge wire. Your better off just buying a power strip and plugging into a timer,...
what is GAC ?[/quote]
Granular Activated Carbon
should pumps be cleaned every three months as well? Is the vinegar run through the way to clean the calcium off the pumps and get them back to full power?
fantastic SM, very insightful. I have a 13 gallon bucket for Top off to my 120 that I fill up maybe once every 6-7 days? What ratio should the lime powder be to your top off, any suggestions? I have...
Are you cleaning it every 5 days? can see several "pod ring" areas, don't let it go long thinking it will help more, that dark stuff doesn't get any bigger
ok I see, yeah that's not going to work to its fullest capacity unless you either:
change the bulbs to R40 flood
add reflectors
change the tub to a white tub with a white lid
yup thats them, total length is 6 inches from base to top when screwed into the socket. So you will need about 9-10 inches on each side of the screen to use them (to give you 3-4 inches clearance...
oh your using SPIRALS? I agree with Gigaah, My 23w are R40 floodlights, you definitely have to change to those if you can, if you don't have reflectors on your spirals you are losing a TON of light,...
once you calcium and alk are at the right levels just use pickling lime powder in your top off water to keep them there, no calcium reactor needed
but whats your test readings is the important thing. Is Nitrate/Nitrite/Phosphate/Ammonia zero or close to zero or not climbing? Are you doing water changes (asking because you shouldn't need to)....
23w is perfect to me, thats what I use myself here in the states. I have 6 of them, 3 on each side of my screen on a 120 gallon tank, no other filtration
I just pickle lime my top off water and dose kent essential elements in the recommended dosage once every month or so, I don't do water changes
The fact you said you have a HUGE elimination of diatoms and algae in the tank I wouldn't change anything yet. It's filtering but like SM said you have a ton of nutrients thats why it's an oil slick,...
Do you have a pic? How are your lights pointed and what Kelvin are they and how close? Is the screen really rough? Whats the flow? Kinda weird that it's 3 weeks with nothing. I have a 14x16 screen on...
I have mine on from 7am-1am
Do you feed alot of omnivorous flakes/pellets? they usually leach their green color into the water, just a guess if so because I did for awhile and it made my water greenish too
don't know if it needs to be THAT high, usually 10-15 inches I would think. Mine are 10"
I use the set of 3 white plastic joint compound knifes you get at Home Depot. It comes with 3 different widths, hard white plastic (no metal) and is like $3.50 for the set
I agree, I'm running 8x 23w cfl (120w equiv) 2700k 4 on each side of a 14"x16" screen to get growth. may be overkill but it's growing
will do, I'll post some pics later for future reference, you da man SM
0 and 0 according to API test, my PH was down which I didn't notice but I buffed it back up. Feeding 1 mysis shrimp cube and herbivore/omnivore pellets daily. I did add a large bag of fluval carbon...
I have a cyano outbreak now too, probably due to the amount of feeding and dissolved organics in the water. It's mostly all over the sand but it's on the rocks in areas as well now. Hope my ATS...
Ocean Rock, can alway paint the white first then go over the layer with a primer then paint it black, the inner will still be white
Update! I use reef crystals, the IO is the first salt I tried but I have since went to reef crystals, I kept the bucket because its handy lol. Thanks to the advice here my algae in the tank is gone...
hmmm, just thought of something. I recently started storing water into these Rubbermaid "Slim Jims" they hold 23 gallons but are rectangle shaped and tall and thin, perfect space saver to hold that...
Thanks for the input SantaMonica, I think a little more detail is needed on my part:
Original tank fill up was done with normal tap with Instant Ocean, hence the IO bucket in the pic (didnt have...
Thanks kcress! No sooner that I read this than I ran down to my basement, cleaned the glass yet AGAIN, and killed the MH and t5's. I do have 2 luner clusters on the light (dark blue) thats so dark it...
Hi all, just signed up after alot of reading on Algae Scrubbers on this site. I took the plunge but am having an outbreak of huge proportions. My setup is a 120 gallon tank, 48x24x24. I had a 29...