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    Kerry's LED

    I just upgraded my one just like SM, its vert now as of Sunday night. It started out with a CFL then I built a LED array for it with 4 660nm. Now its vertical and the screen is much shorter and I am using 2 660nm LED's per side. In the first pic if you look way to the upper right you can see a little slice of my double screen scrubber that runs my 150G FW. In the second pic you can see the horizontal filter base is still there. I am making a bracket so I can set in on my acrylic cover so I can remove the base for the horizontal base. I am also fabricating a cover that will hold the LED heat sinks and cover the top. This is still in the test and design Phase.
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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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    Ahh, the telltale alien-pink glow of 660s...

    I saw Rygh posted in one of his threads recently that he noted a significant difference in strength of the algae by adding a blue to the mix.

    On your build, the thing that worries me the the most is the way that thing is supported. Looks borderline dangerous. Just sayin'.

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    I know, its in there pretty snug though. LOL. It does look scary!!! My wife said the something, I told here to make it move and that satisfied her. I want to make the drains in the bottom connect to a couple or three bulk heads in the acrylic top. This way it only moves when that half of the top is moved. I could even then mount the little pump I use the lid as well and make it all one unit??!!?? Its still a work in progress, thanks for the concern Sir. I also plan to put some blue in my next one. I will be converting my 40G to LED's pretty soon, my parts should be here this week. Its a 6x6 so I figured 4 660nm in a square pattern with a blue right in the 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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    Here is a few pics of my New LED scrubber screen. I think I might back the lighting off about an hour or two, any other suggestions please feel free to let me know. This is the 2nd cleaning.
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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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    That screen looks great for the 3rd cleaning! Is the darker looking algae in the first 2 pics kind of slimy and comes off easily with a light swipe? It looks like the slime coating I get on mine around day 8 or 9

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    I guess pics of the first cleaning would have been useful. So here they are. 1ST cleaning:
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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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    Its really harder to scrap off with the vertical LED's now. Its holding on pretty well actually. All the nutrients are zero-ish which is better then the other horizontal LED.
    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 thought maybe I would go two weeks but it starts to clog the slot.
    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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    phenomenal first week growth. Was that starting from a bare screen???

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    No, it was cleaned from my horizontal then I cut it down to fit the new vert unit. It looked just like the cleaned screen in the above 2nd cleaning photo.
    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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