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    Are you using the spiral CFLs? Or are you using the CFL floodlight? You want CFL floodlight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brent1128 View Post
    Are you using the spiral CFLs? Or are you using the CFL floodlight? You want CFL floodlight.
    Your using floods? Everywhere I've looked recommends the spiral which I'm currently using.

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    Floods are good for small screens, and spirals/reflectors for large screen.

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    Is a 7 inch by 7 inch screen considered small? If it is and I go to the flood lights should I still use my 8 inch reflectors for the flood lights? Thanks for your help SM
    Quote Originally Posted by SantaMonica View Post
    Floods are good for small screens, and spirals/reflectors for large screen.

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    8 inch reflector is probably best, because a floodlight would need to be place pretty far away from the screen.

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    7x7 would be what I would consider larger. Like SM says stick with your 8" reflectors.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SantaMonica View Post
    8 inch reflector is probably best, because a floodlight would need to be place pretty far away from the screen.
    Thanks SM Ill stick with what I got right now. I wouldn't have the room to keep the floods far enough away from the screen anyway. When I can get around to it, would it be okay to post a few picks of my display for you to look at? I have this brown hair algae problem on my live rock all of a sudden. I don't know if it is a scrubber problem or maybe something to do with my new LED lights I put in a couple of weeks ago. The algae was being removed from the back and side walls of the tank but now it seems to be coming back. I have been dosing iron like you suggested a few weeks ago on another thread I had started. I think it was waterflow through the slot if I remember correctly. Thanks again!

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    Quote Originally Posted by kerry View Post
    7x7 would be what I would consider larger. Like SM says stick with your 8" reflectors.
    Thanks for the input Kerry! It is much appreciated.

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    Yes do post display pics, but any algae in the display is by definition a scrubber problem.

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    Hey SM, I'm finally getting around to posting those pics. I just got back from Hawaii, and the brown hair algae is alot worse then when I left. I cleaned the screen when I got back and I also changed the light bulbs. Hope you can steer me in the right direction of getting this problem solved. This scrubber worked for the 1st month and a half great but now the last three weeks have been a strugle. I'm going to do my best to upload some pics for you. I hope it works because I've never done it here before. Thanks again!Click image for larger version

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