Easy scrubber 95 gallon tank step by step

[badstraw]

Thanks for your help !!

This is how it looks under white light.

The LEDs are working 15 hours a day, so... should I increase the amount of hours to 20 instead of 15?

Wouldn't that be too much light ?

[badstraw]

Here's a video, what do you think?

[SantaMonica]

Let's see how it does.

[badstraw]

Here's an update :

The LEDs turn on at 11 pm and go off at 4 pm..

The algae looks a little bit thicker and looks kinda greenish - brownish ..



Should I start cleaning the algae every week? How does it look?
Do you guys think its working now?, I still need to test the nitrates and phosphates..

[Floyd R Turbo]

You have a pretty bad flow restriction issue. Almost all the flow is down the left side. I saw a purple zip tie, looks like it is blocking a lot of flow. Even with that, your algae looks good. That "clumpy" growth is typical on a new screen, eventually the rest will in, but you need to fix the flow issue.

[SantaMonica]

I'd clean it all off.

[badstraw]

Ok guys here's another update:

I was getting more growth so i cleaned the scrubber off for the very first time ..
Check out the pics and video!!

You're right Floyd , the flow goes to the left side of the screen, I'm still thinking how I can fix that..perhaps adding another zip tie?


This is how it looked before It was cleaned:



And then this is how it looks now:




Should I start cleaning the screen every week no matter what?

How many hours do I leave the LEDs on?

[SantaMonica]

If you could even out the light across the screen, it would help

[Floyd R Turbo]

You have too many zip ties IMO, too many things blocking and diverting the flow.

[MorganAtlanta]

Use fishing line, instead of a zip tie, to tie the screen to the loop that goes over the pipe. Also, consider laying a piece of black plastic (like cut from a garbage bag) over the loop to block light and smooth out the flow.