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Thread: The new Upflow Algae Scrubber (UAS)

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    floyd I started on 12 this month, for work I could not closely monitor growth, but the eye has not grown anything at all to this day, back pages discuss the values ​​and settings, nothing has changed

    I'm still a little frustrated

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    I forgot to mention that I went from 24 watts on the waterfall, to 11 watts on the UAS.

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    I bought an 11 per your advice.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by SantaMonica View Post
    I forgot to mention that I went from 24 watts on the waterfall, to 11 watts on the UAS.
    FYI - I am using a 23w for the test

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    I have an 11w on my 10G and a 23w on my 125G. Both basic ones in the tank with a stone.
    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'm waiting on my red LEDs to come in. Should be this week. I've got a 15g FW I'll be putting it on. 5x7 screen, single sided in the tank.

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    Unfortunately, the release of this also has lined up with the go-live of the software for my startup. A bit busy these days, and the wife would kill me if she knew I was starting (yet) another aquarium project.

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    Last night I finally can stop the system and throw a close look at the screen, in effect I have a slight brown algae growth throughout the mesh, let's give it another week to see how it goes, really for my system as conceived maintenance is very difficult with this method, safe return to the previous configuration

    Anyway finish the complete test results and to give appropriate support to this new method, designed from the start will be much more comfortable than the previous

    regards

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    Well today I decided to make a change, find out why not grow the algae, it was easier than I thought, poorly assembled, look at these photos





    My mistake was the little bubbles contact with the mesh

    I see that is not related to the size of the bubble, only important good contact withthe mesh, I can not say the growth stage, the worse I can say my screen to date has 10 days 22/04/2012

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    The bubbles only rubbed the screen at the bottom?

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