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As my 20G leaked and I dont have the patience or money for reef,I was thinking of going to refugium style tank.
Do you think scrubber ll do any good to a refugium style tank ?
Any advice or ideas ?...

I have a 5 month old 20 G reef,the tank is stocked with nearly 20-25 lbs of DIY LR seeded with 3lbs of LR.
The tank is barebottom with no other filtration then a 17" L x 4" W...

I just bought 2x 20 W 21" actinic T4 bulbs.http://www.pegasusassociates.com/MicrofluorescentT4.html.
They are quite good looking,sleek and under my budget and they don't produce as much heat as my...

DIY LR'll rise FW pH to 10-12 for 1st few weeks.I don't think many algae can survive that.I too used DIY LR & seeded it with cured premium quality LR.DIY LR took almost 6-8 weeks to cure .Hope it...

So thats why I dont see pods that much.
I ll increase flow in tank then.Thx SM
I always wondered why I cant see any pods.

Well I dont see any dust storm but the brown algae on my glass shows distinctive patches of algae eaten by pods.

The screen(not screen but Velcro) is single sided horizontal 4" wide and 17" long.
I m planning to keep just one.The other inhabitant ll either be a fire fish,or a clown or a cardinal.

I have 4 month old 20 G nano reef with 25-30 lbs of LR.My scrubber is been running for a month and green algae has started to show up.
There is no other fish and the only coral at the moment is 100s...

I do know that.Thx for telling me again.
But I cant run it for 18 hours,the same lights illuminate the tank too.And because of electricity loadshedding I cant keep lights on for more then 12 hrs...

I cant keep my lights on for more then 12 hrs,is it fine ?
There are 2x 20 W 6400K CFLs.3 inches above from scrubber.
A 20 G with 30 lbs LR and a single 3inch maldives clown.
The screen is made of...

I dont think flow rate for small tank has to be around 4-6 times/hr.
I had gone as much as 20x/hr with small fishes like tetras,baby rainbows,loaches,small angels,catfishes etc
And they wont mind...

Thats my in-tank-over-the-surface-of-water scrubber.
As I couldn't find plastic canvas I used Velcro .
It isnt running as my tank is still cycling.
But I guess if I find decent plastic canvas I ll...

Is using Chloroform for gluing acrylic is reef safe or not ?
Thats what my uncle uses to glue acrylic and he says that he can make me an overflow box,that fit my needs.
But he uses Chloroform ...

No Online shopping ,we dont have anything like walmarts or PetCo too.
Its not that I live in some village though.Its just people aren't that comfortable with super stores or any thing like that.The...

I guess 12 hours wont hurt either.And I m running extremely tight on space so tight that I'm skimmer less,sump less,fuge less and every other thing out of the tank minus.
Trying a 3000K light over...

I found that coral and seahorse around n LFS here,the horse was just to awesome to go un noticed was gliding thier 5' x3' tank happily,with damsels and a clown pair(worst scenario for him though)....

I m thinking of buying a 10000K metal halide and as my ATS is in the tank(to be precises just above the tank water surface),and it ll be lighted by the same halide as other part of tank,will it work...

Hi eric
nice to see you here and sorry for the trouble I caused(I was the guy who told you that 12 x 8 is 96 and if lited from both side it will double the surface area).I m extremely sorry for that...

Ok so I finaly made the Hang-on acrylic,here are some pics and its 17 " long and 4.5" wide.Occupies 1/4th of my aquarium wideness.
Now I dont seem to find any screen type plastic material,all I get...

I never knew that so thanks for telling me.
Now I have to find a screen.

Well if the idea is to roughen up then I can show you to how to roughen it up that it ll become 'cactus like'.It wont be translucent but quite opaque!
Paste the highest number of sand paper on a...

Its so great to get comments directly from the guy who inspired me to think of this.
I wont be using any screen as Ill use 4 mm acrylic sheet which will roughed up enough and I choose hanging as it...

Ok I dont have much space and extremely clumsy with plumbing so I m trying to get a design that will work in the tank.
I have come with some of the ideas and one I m currently think about is...