[bold]This is boring backstory which you can skip.[/bold]
This might be my third attempt at a good scrubber. I had a scrubber working fairly well for a year or so, had to move so had the tank running at a friends house. For a year it was barely touched except to feed and top off water(which i didn't find out about until I came back) and surprisingly about half of my tank survived. Since i got it back i couldn't seem to grow decent algae on the scrubber and instead they grew in the display. I feel like I may have gotten the wrong type of bulbs from costco but i can't remember what it was anymore when i ran out of bulbs i stopped changing them altogether. Tank was neglected for another few months Now I finally decided to fix the scrubber with some leds.
2 heatsinks from Rapid led
1 meanwwell LPC-35-700 driver
3 x CREE XT-E Royal Blue LED
3 x Violet UV LED
6 x Philips Rebel ES 660nm LED
Is this too much light on a 12x10 screen? I'm currently running it on 18 on 6 off. (6 hours on 2 off etc this isn't necessary anymore right? ) Should I reduce the time?
Another question i have is I used 2 mesh sheets together and I don't see anyone doing that anymore. Is one sheet fine? I noticed alot of gunk was getting trapped in between the sheets. I realized some of my old problems as I was fixing this. The slot for the sheet was too thin and I had to widen that so I could run my pump unrestricted without it squirting from the scrubber.
This scrubber has been running for a day so far so i don't have any results to show here. I'm open to any suggestions for change
Outsourcing labor to an asian
These didn't seem to turn out too bad considering it was her first time soldering
This is how bad the algaes gotten, even my snails are covered in hair algae.
Today I decided to clean the glass and do a water change.
Wow look at all the algae but at least I can finally see into the tank.