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Thanks

So skip the aeration before the macro?

Calcium and kalk reactors are use together or by themselves because they are used for many of the same things like adding alkalinity and the obvious calcium for skeleton building corals but many...

OK Lete’s say that I get a tube …2 to 4 inches in diameter and put it in the refugium with an air stone at the bottom of it. Then I could put the effluent from the calcium reactor by the air stone....

I am building a high end calcium reactor and a kalk reactor as well, for my 180 gallon re-start. I have an ATS that has served me well for 20 years.

How should it be affected by an ATS and vice...

N and P can get too low for the scrubber to work if you dose too much carbon. This happened to me when I dosed vodka for a short time. Right away my scrubber stopped growing anything. I didn't...

Again, i just grabber fertilizer from the cabinet so I don't know what brand it was, sorry.
Wow! That is quite a thread. As you know, I am interested in that type of stuff. I only read a few posts...

I didn't quite understand the question ...but I used to use fish emulsion fertilizer. I added about a cap full every day for a few days when the algae growth slowed down. I normally poured the cap...

That is a distinct possibility. I may try that next.

That is usually true so I can't figure this out. I have been bombarding this screen with 4 times as much light as I used to use with the either VHOs, the long Compact Fluorescents or the Halogen...

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Day 41

I got great results and took the bag out after 7 days instead of the 4 that was suggested by directions. Then I waited a week and the phosphates did...

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After 5 or 6 weeks of no improvement, I bought a 2 liter container of PhosGuard ($42) and also bought a large professional sock to go with it. I first...

So as to the nitrate limitation possibility. Could phosphates that are off the charts cause algal growth to be depressed?
If so what product or chemical should be added? How much? And finally, has...

I'm sorry that I didn't say that I started this launch running 12 hours on and 12 off. I will edit my last post to add that. So should I cut it back even more? I use to run 18 and 4.

Floyd. So it...

After 23 days of operation, I have to report zero growth. There is a little green slim but no filamentous algae at all.
Now, I have to narrow down the reasons for the problem and fix it.

Doing a...

Very Cool! It looks nice and clean looking design. Good job.

This product has indeed been around for around 20 years. I believe that this design was created as a way to get around a patent so that it could be made available for retail sale. Unfortunately,...

I agree with what is started above. My skim reading of the articles that I could fine leads me to believe that flashing is very forgiving, although they point to frequencies that are the very fast....

Now that there have been some test run, I am wondering if people are getting good harvest quantities compared to ...say, a water fall scrubber? For those that over built on the lighting, I would...

WAK: I would think that all of the patents held the ATS back. Dr. Adey was the inventor, the top authority and the big proponent of the scrubbers, started in the early 90's. He also took most of the...

I'm not tying to start and argument. I have a similar mind as well. I was just wondering then.

When?

If you have a CO2 reactor already, using it will help stimulate growth if properly applied. That is true.

Please forgive me for sounding like a broken record but part of the point of having an...

Wow very nice to know.

The week point of the study is that it doesn't go up to 6 1/2 or 7 hundred nm's but I'm sure that the methodology would stand up regardless of the light source. I just use this stuff as a rule of...

I didn't look in depth so that is all that I know. I just thought about it and did a quick search. This is probably not the BEST study in the world. I picked it because they use aquarium tank glass,...

I remembered when I was researching a splash cover for the light on my old scrubber that glass doesn't transmit as much light as Plexiglass. Neither were great so I went without one and just cleaned...

Just want to confirm the live rock denitrification. I have an often repeated the story about an added sump that was full of crush coral. When I hooked it up, the N fell and my scrubber stopped...

As we say, the bubbles are there for moving the turf algae around (turf algae being a class that includes GHA) so I agree that the micro bubbles in the video aren't great for that but to speak to...

That is a cool idea but the movement is way too slow. Yes, I would put light on the glass as well. It would probably need to make a cycle every 2 or 3 seconds

But it is still fun to see.

What you are trying to do with the bubbles, is to break down the boundary layer by providing very localized random turbulence.

I copied this in part, from another article, "There is a microscopic...

I agree. You can find people that are successful using most any method and I don't have enough experience to say for sure which is the very best for you but I don't think that the " all of the above"...

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You know the old saying.

The only way that you can finish the design is to kill the engineer!

Yes sir! I'll on it.

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LOL I hate it when you're right. When I read your post about this before I started this thread, I ran through almost all of the possible...

Yes, that sound logical. Thanks. I'll model it that way.

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Guess what I found? A whole box of 20 watt CFL's that the power company sent me for FREE. Yea! 240 total watts isn't enough to achieve...

Yes sire. Thanks a lot!

I'll go to raining now and then I will read up on the LED stuff that you wrote and I will probably have more question.

I will have to look on the net to see what you are talking about (thanks) but before I read your last post, I was re-reading this:


These are a few real questions. They are not rhetorical or...

I forgot to ask about how much are they? Typically

23 Watts are about $9.20 for 5" diameter?

LOL
You had better definitely Google it and read up on the details on flashing. It's been a long time since I read those papers. Yes, they did try flashing light but I don't know what kind. I'm...

Ok let's talk about fluorescents until my research is done and LED's come to the top of my purchase list. What is the trade of between commodity lighting and more sophisticated versions? I already...

SM, I brought up phosphates relative to the sump that I was discarding. I only mentioned it as an update to a post that I made last year. It was a post that you read and commented on and I thought...

This was not intended to be my dump bucket coming out party. I was surprised by the response from SM. It was a little sharp. I didn't want to get into an argument over my design but somehow I knew...

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I would like to put down some rambling thoughts and hopefully get some good input to help me finalize my ATS design. Please comment on...

Sorry, I thought that my answer went through yesterday but it must have hung up or something.

Well .....When I was thinking through the possible issues that might arise, I was talking to someone...

Do you mean the cable carriage or the second axis feeding carriage?
If you are talking about the cable carriage, it is because I cut my teeth on CNC machines. I had a less expensive solution to...

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Things are going so very slowly because I have so many other things to do. The programing went well but I have had problems doing the...

Yes, the P comes down slower than the N and neither go to absolute zero. I have thought about returning to an old “No-No” that I use to do when my ATS worked too well in my old tank. That is, adding...

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