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Woop :-)

I'm intregued!

Cheers buddy. Will be interested to see.

Hmmmmm......

Will have to have a think about making one of these.

I'm just about to replace my current CFL powered Waterfall with an LED powered one, going to be making it out of Acrylic, very...

Just been watching the video on Youtube with the new floating scrubber and I'm intregued.

Is the air a must, is it purely for water flow, can I replace the air with a water pump?

Also would one...

Hello Buddy, fancy seeing you here? LOADS of Ultimate reef guys on here now lol

Any updates?


Also, I have been watching LA fish guy for over 2 years, awesome vids! He used to be pretty stuck...

does just sound like GHA

The colour of the algae one I can deal with ;)

Yellow means the light is too strong for the amount of flow really. Reducing light will reduce the amount of filteration however so the solution is...

WOW!!!!

I hope to see something like that one day lol

as marksfish says, we seem lucky to have pretty open minded guys here on the uk forums.

I post advocating the algae scrubber almost daily now!


I went up to see jaggys one the other day, the...

woop woop.......


I've got a feeling this is my best posed question/thread since I've been in the fish game lol

so you seeing similar results in both tanks?

could you tell us about the rest of your filteration system ace?

Do you skim too?

Bang!!!!!


That was the sound of my head popping lol

I'm interested!!!!!

So purigen does the job of carbon then???

love it

From all my reading..... and I've been doing alot since friday lol... I would tend to agree with you there!

My sps seem fine if a little dull but its my Zoa's i've noticed browning mainly. going...

I'm very tempted to go back to skimming aswell as scrubbing but will decide after I boost the scrubber and let it settle a little.

so a bag of carbon will do it?

its always good to open up a debate lol.

My scrubber up to now has been doing a cracking job keeping the water clean in terms of nitrate and phosphate and the corals all seem healthy if a little...

I may shove my nano skimmer in the sump then, its massively "undersized" for the tank but might just keep the protiens down a little.

This is a new one on me but bear with me....


I run an algae scrubber and my nitrate and phosphate is 0.

The tank has been running in one form or other since jan this year and has been...

that's what I thought I'd read on here but cannot find anything about it :(

certainly nothing scientific!

I'm going with the idea that the algae doesn't actually use ammonia but encourages the bacteria and obviously uses the nitrate quickly.

I think you had alot of BB converting the ammo until you...

lol

Thats pretty much exactly what I've done :(

I'll experiment making it wider at one end than the other too see if it widens the flow any!

Have you guys got pictures of the slots you have for your scrubbers?

My first few designs the mesh was hung under and I drilled holes for flow from the tube. Always worked but I thought it would...

I love this :)

Looking forward to coming over to see it :)

cool :)

Brilliant :0

Are you making a table to keep a check on the params easier?

This is a good read.

I believe your ammo is well over 8.

Can you do the test again, half the vial with half water from the tank and half with clean SW?

Use the same ammount of chemicals and...

Got it sorted today :)

Heres a few pics and a vid of the system!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwrEfQ7dPmk

Theres 2 20w lights on each side
...

should be ok if you mark it first ;)

lol. Thats one way to do it!!!

Last time I used a jig saw perched between my legs and dragged the tubing down it...... decided after the first few inches that it wasn't a good idea lmao

But oh...

will do :)

Got me a dremmel multi tool....

I honestly don't know how I managed without it!!!!

It's given me ideas and I'm redesigning my scrubber now lmao

So much for a relaxing day off!!!

Get pics of the tank up ;)


Stalking you now bud lmao

you mean scypha sponges by any chance?

I've got tons, none of them in direct light.

They're helpfull filter feeders and will grow quickly in tanks with hight DOCs like tanks with scrubbers and...

lol

just a quick update.

The scrubber is working well, plenty growth and levels are near zero.

The acrylic has started to bow and is pulling at the silicone which is starting to fail.

Because of...

I've covered it to reduce evaporation as much as possible but have marked a line in the header. Simply pour in and fill to line.
Have checked and theres been no noticable change in level so far (3...

Here's my 2ft tank seperated into an 18" display and 6" header.

The in the vid I just used a table lamp while building my lights.
I am now using 2x 5400k 45W photography lamps about 1 1/2" from...

That thread was on 3reef.

Not sure if I should post a link to it from this forum tbh :?:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FINE-WHITE-HDPE-2 ... 3ca07f3875

I've already got some brown bonzia mesh but thought white would be alot easier to see whats happening.

Is this the right stuff or is the...

No worries bud. I was gonna dose to test it really lol.

Don't want to add a fish only to end up buying a bigger sytem/more equipment... The wife would kill me, just spent a fortune on a new 80G,...

this looks like the idea for me :)

I've been playing with much more complicated ideas for what is essentially a pretty basic thing lol

I'd nailed the idea of using a cascade from the display...

Read the "MEGA POWERFULL" thread for the first time yesterday. Thought it was crap the way you got treated on that site Santa :(

However, searched turf algae on their site and found a thread from...