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    Re: Freshwater scrubber

    It's going to grow well.

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    Its looking great Kerry! 8-)

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    Well as of Saturday I cleaned the screen again and had to do a water change as the nitrate stepped up over 40PPM. So far this has cut my water changes down to once every two weeks as before I was changing water twice a week. I do not think this screen is large enough for my tank capacity. I am working on a dual screen build with two almost full size screens. My pump is only good for about 16" so I may need another pump to fully drive the two screen build. I will try to post some pics of the new build today maybe.
    150G. Reef/Mix
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    40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
    10G. SW Fish/Reef.
    10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
    6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.

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    Re: Freshwater scrubber

    Move the lights to the center.

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    Re: Freshwater scrubber

    Quote Originally Posted by SantaMonica
    Move the lights to the center.
    I plan on having three lights, 2 outside and one middle.
    150G. Reef/Mix
    125G. 3 Regular Oscars/1 Jack Dempsey
    75G. 20+ Africans
    40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
    10G. SW Fish/Reef.
    10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
    6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.

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    I have finished my dual screen scrubber for the 150G FW tank. This on has 224.25 sq" of area. The old single screen was only 108 sq". So with just more then double the area I believe I can take care of all the nitrate problems. I still need to upgrade my pump, my pump is good for 16" of screen length and I have 17.75" of length now. I thought about running my Rena Filstar XP3 in the supply for now which would give me plenty of flow until I buy my new pump. It also has a lid that closes, you can see it in the third pic. The screen is 9.75"x5.75"
    [attachment=2:1wqsoqi4]2011-10-15_15-46-28_62fix.jpg[/attachment:1wqsoqi4]
    [attachment=1:1wqsoqi4]2011-10-15_15-46-55_472fix.jpg[/attachment:1wqsoqi4]
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    [attachment=0:1wqsoqi4]2011-10-15_19-05-33_249fix.jpg[/attachment:1wqsoqi4]
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    150G. Reef/Mix
    125G. 3 Regular Oscars/1 Jack Dempsey
    75G. 20+ Africans
    40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
    10G. SW Fish/Reef.
    10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
    6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.

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    Re: Freshwater scrubber

    The fourth pic.
    [attachment=0:324j41al]2011-10-15_19-05-43_958fix.jpg[/attachment:324j41al]
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    150G. Reef/Mix
    125G. 3 Regular Oscars/1 Jack Dempsey
    75G. 20+ Africans
    40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
    10G. SW Fish/Reef.
    10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
    6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.

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    Here are some pics taken yesterday of the new dual screen growth, notice the long algae growth leading to the drain. The nitrates have only gotten to 30PPM since the water change on 10/10/11 and the change over to the dual screen on 10/16/11. Not bad results, I hope to see the nitrates going down when I test them this weekend.
    [attachment=1:ba3dlait]2011-10-19_17-37-34_937fix.jpg[/attachment:ba3dlait]
    [attachment=0:ba3dlait]2011-10-19_17-37-42_812fix.jpg[/attachment:ba3dlait]
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    150G. Reef/Mix
    125G. 3 Regular Oscars/1 Jack Dempsey
    75G. 20+ Africans
    40G. Fish/Reef. Algae Scrubbers on ALL my SW
    10G. SW Fish/Reef.
    10G. SW Hospital/new fish quarantine/pod breeder tank
    6 stage RO/DI system 200 GPD.

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    Re: Freshwater scrubber

    Yes FW tends to grow long thin straight hairs...

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    Looks Awesome Kerry! 8-)

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