i understand what your saying herring_fish ,maybe all the patents on different designs have held it back.
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i understand what your saying herring_fish ,maybe all the patents on different designs have held it back.
ignore me, i didn't see that.
They are 3 watt leds , but most of the time leds are not driven at peak.
watts is amps x volts
so a 3 watt led driven at 700ma with a drop of 3.5 volts which is about normal would be 0.7 x...
Yes, with the amount of patents on the filters i wonder why its never gone mainstream
Take a look at this one ruddy looks like the old aquariacare company were onto the wheel design also.
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he's selling 700nm red led strip lights now , maybe you should tell him to give them a go on the scrubber.
How are you getting the air to the screen , is their a lot of improvment in growth with air supplied.
Some co2 will dissolve in the water and create carbonic acid. Lowering the ph
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-04-29/news/bs-gr-algae-scrubber-20120429_1_algae-bloom-harbor-water-scrubber
Thanks for reply, like you say the whites are probably no good they are 14k. I may try opening it up to see if i can replace the whites with reds. Should be a cheap fixture if i can manage to change...
HI, i have a old aquaray unit it has 2 blue leds and 3 white . would this be any good for growing algea.
I could remove it but as it goes in a cabinet under the tank all i did was remove the media from it. This way i don't need another pump in the tank to power the scrubber. I had no problem taking out...
The cannister filter is still running the outfeed from it is what supplies the scrubber.
Well i have a ten gallon nano reef .The nitrates in this tank were always around 20ppm , the filtering was a skimmer + small cannister filter and 10 pounds of live rock in the tank. Four weeks ago i...
Could this different type of algea be growing because the scrubber is being used on a fresh water tank.