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    Hi Santa monica.
    What an algae scrubber do in tap water?
    Exemple: if a put only tap water in a tank and run an algae acrubber in it, can i use this water as top of water in a reef instead of RO water?

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    If you let the water sit in a bucket overnight, you can use it for top-off.

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    Only the bucket with water, without an algae scubber?

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    Yes just put the water into a bucket, about 15 cm deep, and the next day you can add it to the tank.

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    Santa Monica, Good afternoon
    Is this information below up to date?


    Q: What advantages are there to wide screens? If a screen is narrow, but taller, and has the same area, isn’t it the same?
    A: No. The big difference is in the amount of water processed; A screen twice as wide will flow twice as much water, and this makes a big difference in how fast it can eat the nutrients out of the water. Also, if part of the slot gets blocked by something, a wider screen will not be affected as much as a narrow screen.

    Thanks

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    No it is not up to date. If the screen area is the same, a wider version is not better. Except of course for the clogging part.

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    Hi Santa Monica, its me again. lol
    i was looking for the reasons why we can`t let the CFL bulbs more than 3 months and i do not figured it out.
    what happen to a scrubber if we do that? what happen with the algae in the screen?
    thanks a lot.
    and iŽll make a video to show you how my tank looks now.

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    CFL bulbs will get weaker quickly. You will not notice it until you replace with new bulbs.

    Yes let us see the tank now

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    Hi SM.
    What is the best design, a waterfall or a upflow algae scrubber?
    I am thinking about to change mine to save a space.
    I have a waterfall.
    If you can, say to me the positive and negative points of each one please.

    Thanks a lot

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    i dont know if you need this information to help me with the upflow algae scrubber but here you go.
    i have 73 gallon of water in my tank. and only 4 little fish but i wanna add more fish soon as possible. thanks

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