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    This is how to handle slime on waterfall screens which occurs in higher nutrients, which many times is when a scrubber is first added to an older tank.

    This RAIN2 has an optional slime screen which has vertical slime rails on one side, allowing you to compare the rail side to the non-rail side. The left photo is without the rails, and the right side is with the rails. Another version of the screen has rails on both sides.

    Slime, especialy dark slime like this, does not hold on well to waterfall screens. Even the high-gripping Green Grabber textues which hold better than any other waterfall screen sometimes has trouble. This is because slime has no roots and gets detached by gravity. The slime rails on this screen give much more surface area for the slime to hold on to, however, the screen still should be brushed throughly clean in your sink with tap water (so no algae is remaining) every 3 to 5 days, or else additional growth will have trouble attaching.

    If the nutrients in the water come down because of the high filtering of the slime, and growth then turns into green hair algae, the regular stock flat screen (without rails) should be used again.

    Screen info:
    https://www.santa-monica.cc/Green-Gr...reen_p_82.html

    Slime info:
    http://algaescrubber.net/forums/show...he-best-filter

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    The RAIN2 bottom tray, where algae drops down to, is the easiest to clean of any waterfall scrubber. Just try reaching your hand down into other box style scrubbers and scraping the bottom (after disconnecting parts and taking it to your sink). Note: The pink-looking screen is just the GEM5 lights inside the dome.

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    The inside of the light dome of the RAIN2 (tm) looks simple. What you can't see is the wiring inside the waterproof submersible white case of the GEM5® lights which controls the heat of the LEDs so that it does not have to reduce power when out of the water (like apparently all other submersible light have to do).

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    The first new thing to happen to waterfall scrubbers in 2025... any idea what it is?

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    CJ shows his overgrowth on the RAIN2 with four GEM5 lights. Only GEM5 lights are strong enough to penetrate growth this thick.

    https://youtu.be/fiybBdTVBYE
    https://www.facebook.com/SantaMonica...35187877499631
    https://x.com/SantaMonicaFil/status/1887523303457497126

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