Ok I did a ton of reading here and everywhere else i could online and came up with this. This is 2 weeks of growth with diffuser against the 10w cob style led grow light.


I left it in way too long (8 weeks) because it was only producing light slimey algae. Figured it had to break in. Till I read a post otherwise. I had a diffuser over the light for the first 6 weeks then removed it and this is my 8 week results before cleaning
2017-05-06_07-56-19 by Vegan M., on Flickr

I started getting cloudy water and odd clear short algae across everything. So I'm on my second cycle of kent phosphate sponge to get phos down to below 0.2. IT's right at 0.2 now. I also didn't have the lights on long enough. Again after more reading here I see I needed 18hrs on so that's what I did. Any help would be appreciated. This is what it looks like in the compartment. Oh and I god rid of the nylon rope, too hard to clean.



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