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[Floyd R Turbo]

Yeah, mine has that as well, that's why I need a scrapper to clean it.
False Bottom? What is that, do you mind sharing that?

Click the first link in my signature. In my L2 I have stand-offs that support a panel that sits above the drain. This routes water around the sides and prevents algae from direct contact with the drain to reduce the chance of the drain clogging from algae growing into it. The secondary effect is that nothing of any substance grows on the bottom of the box. Algae does grow and can attach to the false bottom, but the removable panel is a lot easier to clean, and since you can clean it fully with every cleaning, there's less chance of calcified buildup forming on it.

In retrospect it's probably one of the better aspects of the L2, but I can't take full credit for it, the seed was planted in my head by Chrissu in a conversation he and I had about a year or so ago.

[holidayz]

Playing around with flow, lid hours, and not much progress on having a good green growth.

What I found is I might be jumping steps.....I need to get a good, even, constant flow first before going any further.
I've managed to get the flow even throughout 1 side of the screen, but then the other side would have minimal flow.
Tried making the slot bigger, 4mm now, and feed it from both ends.

Max result is what I mentioned above, one side of the screen is good while the other got very little flow.
And what make it worse is the situation changes as the algae grows thicker. Then flow becomes whatever it wants to be.....
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

[SantaMonica]

Just make sure the clean the slot and top of the screen real good.

[holidayz]

Just make sure the clean the slot and top of the screen real good.

Thanks SM.
That I've been doing faithfully every week.
Although a lot of work, I wonder if I use 2 tubes with holes to "spray" water towards the screen will make things better?
That seems might prevent the growth from blocking the slot.
Anyone tried that and results good?

[SantaMonica]

Been tried; can't say good results. A light-shield is probably better.

[holidayz]

Been tried; can't say good results. A light-shield is probably better.

Tks! Save me lots of trouble!

[Floyd R Turbo]

Or add the 'Morgan' Saran wrap over the pipe

[holidayz]

Or add the 'Morgan' Saran wrap over the pipe

Thanks Floyd.
I've tried that (plastic wrap, not sure about the 'Morgan' part) but somehow result not quite good.
Visually, the flow looks better, but wonder if it is because the algae can't "breath" freely, lots of brown, worse than what I'm having now.
And when it is towards the last couple days where algae really grows thick, flow is still very uneven. Last couple days I mean day 6 and 7.

[holidayz]

Too much light?

[kotlec]

Looks similar to mine. Reducing light didnt make it green but rather more brown. May be need more time. Or may be completely different situation...