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    Screen height

    What would be the minimum recommended screen height?

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    Re: Screen height

    This is what SM recommends: Each cube of frozen food you feed per day needs 12 square inches of screen, with a light on both sides totalling 12 watts. Thus a nano that is fed one cube a day would need a screen 3 X 4 inches with a 6 watt bulb on each side. A larger tank that is fed 10 cubes a day would need a screen 10 X 12 inches with 60 watts of light on each side. see info here. Use this link for the info you need: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1582&p=13742&hilit=screen+size #p13742 .
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    Re: Screen height

    Hi, i understand the area, but I was more asking what do people think is the minimum practical screen height? Eg I'd imagine a 1" high screen wouldn't be too practical but what is? 4", 6", 8"?

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    Re: Screen height

    I see what you are asking. I try to base my width on my pump flow, then figure how much I want to feed (height) and make sure I have enough area (width x height) to suite my needs of the tank. Normally I like to have a minimum of 6" in height (seeing this is practical for my type of build preference), but long enough to just touch the water level to reduce noise and bubbles.
    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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