Pls advise. Currently my screen 11" x 11" and my tank size 6x2x2 feet. Do you guys think my screen more than enough? or should i go with smaller screen?
Pls advise. Currently my screen 11" x 11" and my tank size 6x2x2 feet. Do you guys think my screen more than enough? or should i go with smaller screen?
tank size is really less relevant than feeding. 11x11 is good for 10 cubes/day by the feeding guideline.
How much do you feed per day?
No, how much quantity do you feed on average daily? Not how many times. How many cubes, etc.
the following are cube equivalent
1 frozen cube
10 pinches of flake food
10 square inches (60 sq cm) of nori
0.1 dry ounce (2.8 grams) of pellet food
3.25 mL of liquid coral food
Normally I do 2 pinch of flake food in a day and night.
If you go by the feeding guidelines, you're under 1 cube/day. I generally don't recommend under 2 cube/day screen for a system your size. That would still be 2x what you feed now. The question is, how much do you plan on feeding eventually?
For a first scrubber, with a tank that size (which you will likely want to put more fish and corals in) I would build one a little larger than what you are feeding, so a 24 sq in screen would be about right (4x6, 5x5, etc) then as you get more fish and feed more, you might just need to re-configure the scrubber to allow for a larger screen.
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