That's beside the sump I believe. Otherwise the LEDs would get wet pretty quick on an outage. Am I right Wicked?Originally Posted by SantaMonica
That's beside the sump I believe. Otherwise the LEDs would get wet pretty quick on an outage. Am I right Wicked?
The unit sets beside the sump and overflows over the top of it into the first chamber. In an outage my sump doesnt come up much more than the level its at because i have a check valve on my return going to the tank. I noticed that when i shut the scrubber down it backfeeds out the feed line until the scrubber is almost empty, so i will be getting a check valve for it too.
Keep in mind that check valves will always eventually fail due to the nature of a marine tank. Very often small feather dusters growing in the lines catch debris and prevent a valve from working when you need it to. You can make it part of your maintenance schedule to remove and clean the valve regularly to help prevent an issue when you need it to work. It's up to you, but I'd look at trying to find a better way to run pipes for long term piece of mind.
Thread with my current build of UAS: Here
150g seahorse system:
75g seahorse DT
25g deep sand bed fuge and cheato tumbler
55g sump
40g fuge for pod production
Arduino based controller for dimmable LEDS and lights over fuges, heater/chiller, ATO and RO/DI production.
Temps run between 70-73*F.
Photos of the horses and DT:http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t...mbo/Seahorses/
After 4 days of running ive just noticed some brown and green patches on my screen. i figured it would take a while so im being patient and leaving it along on a 12 on 12 off schedule. hopefully it will take off soon
Can you do 18 hours?
With LEDs I would suggest 12/12. when I went 18 I got lots of brown slime.
i figured for a test i would leave it at 12/12 for a good while so i dont change any variables in the experiment. So far im not seeing any difference in grown from the red led`s compared to the pink led`s. The pink was my own personal experiment since i didnt notice anyone else running them.
I'd probably attribute brown slime to photo-inhibition of gha. I'd bet that once the gha took hold and got a half inch thick, it could handle it.
maybe once im getting good gha growth and have cleaned a couple of times i will see if bumping the hours up will help.
I bumped my LED photo period down to 12/12 as well.
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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