Stopped skimmer after scrubber, after about 3 months, everything still cool, out of curiosity added skimmer back.
Very dark skimmate, smells very bad, but it fades to very light and no smell within...
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Stopped skimmer after scrubber, after about 3 months, everything still cool, out of curiosity added skimmer back.
Very dark skimmate, smells very bad, but it fades to very light and no smell within...
Thanks SM!
No, this is just a tank to clean up my rocks, nothing else will be in there. Don't want to just throw them away, quite expensive here.....
Moreover, when this pile is finally cleaned,...
Hi SM,
I recently got a 65G tank to try clean up my P soaked rocks from DT.
It is only 2/3 filled, no lights and covered, change 50% water every week, but the process was so slow.
Wonder if...
Noted. Thanks!
Cleaned my screen yday. Noticed some of those red stuff on the screen.
They're extremely hard to completely remove, wonder if I shall start a new screen?
Haha, the good news is also some gha also...
Tks SM.
So glad that the scrubber would eventually take care of them.
Hope when they die will not trigger another algae outbreak.
Hmm...no ah.
However, I think I introduce it myself by buying a piece of rock that has some of these on it.
At that time I didn't realize it will be so invasive (and kind of looks good) and also...
Same, about 2/3 green, 1/3 brown. Never been able to get 100% green.
Hi there,
Looking for some help!
My tank has been invaded by this red algae....I think it is called red hair algae or Asparagopsis algae?
This a pic I found on the net, which looks exactly like...
I don't understand, GreenMachine had a very nice screen as of his first posted pic, how come it becomes worse and worse? Shouldn't it be better as time goes by?
Tks Kotlec for the advise, will keep that in mind.
Thanks SM. I'll try relocate my scrubber and try more flow first.
IC.
But I'm not too sure if the scrubber is receiving the "strongest light".
I have a small 65G tank (3ft) and for 6 hours per day, it is lid by 2X120W led and 2X27W led, totaling about 300W.
The...
Thanks SM for the suggestion.
I'll try more flow. But got to find another area in the sump to place the screen. Tried at current location (near return) and it alters too much of the water level....
Thanks for sharing.
My situation more or less the same. Can keep pink, green, blue but cannot keep purple, also cannot keep blue milli.
Tried the normal way like slimmer, bio-pellets, cheato, gfo,...
Thanks Kotlec.
Hmm...so what to do to make it better....What else you've done to try correcting this Kotlec?
Too much light?
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That's nice, glad to hear that!
Thanks Floyd.
I've tried that (plastic wrap, not sure about the 'Morgan' part) but somehow result not quite good.
Visually, the flow looks better, but wonder if it is because the algae can't...
Tks! Save me lots of trouble!
O..I'm just a newbie in the scrubbing world, no where near SM knowledge!
Just sharing some of my experience in reef husbandry and from my experience, 75% watch change may actually do more harm than...
Thanks SM.
That I've been doing faithfully every week.
Although a lot of work, I wonder if I use 2 tubes with holes to "spray" water towards the screen will make things better?
That seems might...
Wa...75% water change....I would only do that if somehow I got toxic materials in the water, just for P, would rather do it slowly. Also, 250 ml of PhosGuard seems a lot to me.
Playing around with flow, lid hours, and not much progress on having a good green growth.
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What I found is I might be jumping steps.....I need to get a good, even, constant flow first before...
Saw the False Bottom on your site. Thanks!!
Yeah, mine has that as well, that's why I need a scrapper to clean it.
False Bottom? What is that, do you mind sharing that?
I did clean it out. Took the whole box out and clean it with a scrapper.
So, this is normal? I just need to clean it everytime I clean the screen?
Yuck!
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I just took a look today after box in use for a month...
You guys have this? Normal? Or something wrong and there is a way to prevent this?
I cleaned it all off. Sigh...there goes lots...
No I didn't. Different culture and English not my mother tonge. Can hardly get the jokes from English speaking comedy movies so rarely watch those.
Tried getting the meaning from the net....still...
No ah....What t.p.s. reports? What does tps stands for? Throttle position switch? lol
Oh no, I'm abnormal ! lol~~
Ic, thanks Wopadobop and Floyd.
But Wopadobop, why wrap only 3 sides and not all 4? Is that a typo?
Valuable topic....learn a lot indeed.
Wonder how much impact will a 3 days total light out will have on corals, especially sps?
Ok...lots of light will be wasted if only 2 inches long.
Will leave it the way it is and try to add more flow if possible. Hope pushing the screen all the way into the slot will allow me to do that....
O...ic.
Since my light is long, stratching from one end of the box to the other, I shall make the screen shorter instead of making it narrower?
Screen is quite short already, only about 4 inches...
Right, would be too big according to your feeding/screen size guideline.
I was thinking using a larger screen would help clean up rock leaching and whatever bad things left in the water since day 1...
3rd week. Cut down light to 12 hours, seems a little more green and still very slimy. Just wait or cut down light further?
Now inserted the screen fully into the slot, see if the spray gets better...
Yeah, I only have it inserted maybe 3mm into the slot only.
Will try that along with less hours after cleaning this weekend.
Ok...so try cut down the light from 18 hours to 12?
I've tried more flow, but the spray becomes stronger and it even pushes the plastic wrap away from the screen.
2nd la, and when I clean it couple days ago....Oh No!
Noticed most of the water spray towards the box instead of the screen!
Growth is very thin I think because of that?
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Also very...
That's Great!!
Hehe, cool !! :)
Haha, you bet!
Show you the growth next week and please tell me if I needed more lights.
Yes sir! :)
Esp when my new screen is still very thin, and not quite green. Haha, but I'm so excited. My old screen never see green.
Let you know how it looks next week. Hope will be better as time...
Cool !! As long as there is a time frame that they will disappear, I'm more than happy!
Not quite understand what you mean by "seeded the tank with live rock".... I have about 80 lbs of live rock in...
Thank you for your reply, SM and Garf.
Understand there should, and will be, lots of things growing on the rocks and most of them required, to keep the water clean.
I'm just worried that by the...
After about a month of my old "testing" scrubber, algae growth on the DT is kind of controlled...if I clean them off the rocks, takes long time to grow back.
But since then, this Brown patches of...
Here is the screen 1 week.
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Wa.....so nice!!
SM carries some good quality ones here
http://www.santa-monica.cc/Flexible-Reflector_p_15.html