The screen material looks very thin. Do you think that the lack of attachment surface (roughness) may be affecting the type of growth ? Have you seen Floyds video on how to rough a screen up ?
The screen material looks very thin. Do you think that the lack of attachment surface (roughness) may be affecting the type of growth ? Have you seen Floyds video on how to rough a screen up ?
You should not be running the scrubber lights 24 hours/day. all plants need a dark period. With your LED setup, you probably should be running them 12 hours/day.
With such a small amount of fish in the tank, I'm guessing that you are not feeding much. Therefore, you are not going to get a lot of algae growth.
Your screen is 10" x 13" or 130 sq in, that's big enough for 10 cubes/day of feeding. Your screen is way oversized, which is why you are getting yellow growth. Important - just because you are not getting green growth does not mean the scrubber is not working!! The question you need to be asking is this: how does my tank look?
If your tank is free of algae, and your fish and corals are doing well, then everything is fine! Don't worry about the color of your algae so much!
Hmm - I've been thinking about these "Alien Growth" screens recently. If that stuff was growing on the sand or rocks in a display it would be classified as cyano or dino's or both. I think a bit of thought should be put into rectifying this. The screen (at the top at least) is capable of green periphyton growth. Maybe an over abundance of DOC,s favouring mixotrophic species. Just a thought.
was like that.... but now its clear, I just wanna make sure everything before start to reefing again..
slow for sure
1 week after since last scrubbed.
its seem in the middle is not strong light ?
new look!
fast food!
Middle is too strong. Needs more water flow, and wider reflectors. Also could do less hours light, and less days before cleaning.
Looks a lot better than last time. Things are on the upOriginally Posted by alum
Have you checked your pH? Seems like the centre of the screen is suffering from an excess of something, but can't be light can it? Just trying to poke some holes in the conventional wisdom, no malice intended.
This is a one sided screen isn't it? From your UAS thread, it appears it didn't cure your problem, hence the move to a waterfall type scrubber. What does the other side of this screen look like? I'm assuming a bit of algae has grown through the mesh and is also yellow in the centre.
In the midle I used 410nm that for my experiment hehe.. now change to 445nm cause its recomended.
flow water 2000 lt/h, is not enaugh??
Now I add timer for the light. its 24/7 right ?
I used to build UAS before and really succed with hair algaes grow, but after I make new ATS now there is no algae attach to UAS screen.Looks a lot better than last time. Things are on the up
Have you checked your pH? Seems like the centre of the screen is suffering from an excess of something, but can't be light can it? Just trying to poke some holes in the conventional wisdom, no malice intended.
http://algaescrubber.net/forums/atta...4&d=1355268685
This is from my UAS before. Do you think I should to install UAS than ATS ??
Yes its only one side has the light, and also you are right only one side grow.
I have no idea to add light on the other side cause I use 17watt already (single side) if more than that It will fry enaugh ??
PS: Sorry guys my lack english, I need translate in google sometime hehe
I run mine about 18 hrs on 6 off. So, your LEDs are only 1 watt each? That's a bit underlit for a screen that size isn't it?
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