You are on your way!!
You are on your way!!
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.
I've chosen a nice gloopy spot of the tank to use as a visual reference for the effectiveness of the scrubber.
Meet reference rock...
Day 4 reference rock:
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Day 6
No real visible change yet but phosphate is measuring at 0.021ppm down from 0.040ppm in 2 days :!: (7 phosphorus ppb)
Probably just error due to different time of the day or something, time will tell...
[attachment=1:h0ta5qbw]screen day 6.JPG[/attachment:h0ta5qbw]
[attachment=0:h0ta5qbw]screen close day 6.JPG[/attachment:h0ta5qbw]
Its coming along, my 40G was a little slow to grow also.
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.
Yeah I'm just kicking myself that I didn't rub my old horizontal screen against it to seed it, I chucked it straight in the bin on bin day!
:x
I'm impatient too
It will still happen soon enough. Mine (40G) took about 3 cleanings (weeks) before I started to get good growth. Now I clean it about every 4-6 days. Started this tank the weekend before fathers day. I still only get brownish type algae with a hint of green but, my nutrients are zero-ish so I am OK with that.
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.
Day 7 today so should I clean it or let it go for 10 days?
It looks the same as the day 6 pictures.
I have alway cleaned mine after the first 7 but, left an untouched section in the middle so I had a comparison for the next cleaning because I am curious about things like that.
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.
It has no growth so let it go 14 days. The idea of cleaning is to keep growth from getting too thick.
Ok thanks for the advice.
I'm installing anti bubble and noise drain mark 2 tomorrow :? :roll:
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