Day 1 new screen, and fish food screen, I am really curious as what this screen will grow. It got its dark green start, while suspended in a small head water creek. Here in Iowa.
Day 1 new screen, and fish food screen, I am really curious as what this screen will grow. It got its dark green start, while suspended in a small head water creek. Here in Iowa.
Day 5 of new screen
Nitrates at 10ppm
I was gone for a week, and fed fry with algae scrubber screen. The bottom is most 3/4" juveniles. The top right were 3 week old from spawning last week. When I put a full grown algae screen, from my scrubber in their tank last week. When I was gone and they are all still ,well fed.
Love natural feeding.
Day 7 of new screen. It started off dark green. It seems like the purple algae is over growing the green hair algae. Out competing it.
I think I might need some more scrubber real estate.
Probably just needs stronger direct light.
Older picture, with lights about 2" away from screen.
This week, with lights in reflector box, 6 on 2 off, the dark age is not slime, but a very short nap, hair algae. That quickly overgrown the screen.
As of yesterday, running lights 24x7. I have been tooth brushing the darker spots off, The screen is solid green, under the dark stuff.
Nitrates have been managed 10ppm-15ppm with weekly 40% waterchanges. I have about 30 cichlids, in this tank.
Ok you have probably reached the capacity for this scrubber. Stronger light might not do much.
The green is going from dark emerald green to light lime green. With the 24x7 lighting.
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