Freshwater HOG UAS

[alex leblanc]

I've put a hold on my 5 gallons sw tank, have to little time to start a new tank. After seeing the new design I decide to give it a try in my 40 gallons long Tanganyika cichlids tank. I've used 2 project box (3x6''), old magnet glass cleaner to keep it on the glass. I'm using the same led as Jnad from led dna and it seem to work really find, I've just order 1 3w royal blue with single led driver to give it I took 4 days to see really fine string of green algae on the outside of the screen, after 10 days it start slowly to fill the screen. 2 really bad pic, I will post better one once my 2 years old little tornado go to bed!

[kerry]

Very nice, I am alway interested in the FW scrubbers.

[alex leblanc]

The scrubbers bring back my interest for my cichlids, hope it does well and I could stop to do waterchange!

[kerry]

I had a waterfall on my 150G cichlid tank before I made it SW. I had a dual screen scrubber with almost two fulls size screens as I only had to remove about an inch off of both. I was doing two 60G water changes a week to keep the nitrates under 40-60PPM before the scrubber. After I was doing water changes about every 10-14 days so it helped a lot. I have a 125G FW I would like to add a scrubber to but have been busy with other projects these last couple months.
I grew so much algae with the FW that I cleaned it every 4-5 days.

[alex leblanc]

It was overstocked with mbuna? Do you think freshwater scrubber can't take out all they excess nutrient to stop doing WC?

[kerry]

I have not experienced this yet. I had 7 Dempsey's and 3 Oscars. Non of them at the time was over 5-6". I tend to think that the FW screens need to be bigger but I can only go off of my experience which was much different then my SW experiences. I had almost to full screens or so and fed only about half what the screen was rated for and grew algae like crazy but could not totally eliminate water changes. I need to get one running again on my FW and see what I can do with one.

[alex leblanc]

My screen continue to grow nicely, strangely, algae grow alot on the back of the screen! I've just received limewood airstone I've order from ebay, anybody I've try those kind of airstone?

[alex leblanc]

My screen after 17 days, what should I do, clean, let it grow, diffuse??

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Back

[kerry]

give it a rinse and diffuse.

[alex leblanc]

Thanks, I will try to find something around here to diffuse!