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    Why no bubbles?

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    Go here

    http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=2028045

    And go to post #350. That's Garf's idea, might work well for you also. Garf would tell you himself about it on here, but he got banned.

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    Ah yeah, I've seen that before. Not sure if I want to make my whole sump into that sort of thing. I'm going to go to home depot and try out an idea I had.

    A nice advantage of the standing waterfall design seems to be that you can get double the surface area by sandwiching the medium in light. I just don't want anything standing above the sump though, I really can't have it leak or spray even half a gallon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SantaMonica View Post
    Why no bubbles?
    Just not a fan of the bubbling noises. I don't mind water falling noises but bubbling for some reason personally gets to me.

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    Can a clear sheet of acrylic that's been seriously roughed up by a dremel serve as a good growth medium?

    Are these bulbs appropriate? I believe the color temperature is 2700k

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    Hmm never mind this pretty much answers everything

    http://algaescrubber.net/forums/show...rubber-Designs

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    That is an older thread but the answers are:

    1) no

    2) yes

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    So I was looking at this:

    http://www.santa-monica.cc/MIX2-over...-day_p_45.html

    This seems like a pretty straight forward idea.
    - Build a small platform with egg crate or PVC pipes
    - Get an appropriately sized acrylic box from the Container Store or really just some Tupperware with the lid off
    - Fill acrylic box / tupperware with appropriate growth medium
    - Attach acrylic box / tupperware on egg crate platform and place directly below overflow hose
    - Shine a strong enough light directly into acrylic box / tupperware
    - Utilize the turbulent bubbly overflow to agitate and cause growth.

    Forget all about adding an extra pump and plumbing and all that. Wish I didn't just buy all this plumbing from HD.

    I guess the trick is finding the right kind of material to serve as a growth medium in the box. I guess there's also that if you use a filter sock this won't be possible unless you have one of those proflex style overflow sock areas.

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    Floating scrubbers are silent; not like the HOG. Certainly quieter than an overflow fed one.

    You don't want a filter sock.

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    A waterfall scrubber can be dead silent if designed and built right.

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