Mega-Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover Replaces Skimmer, Refugium, part 1-4
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I'm getting a burn spot in the middle of my screen witht eh CFL's should I move the lights back a bit or just let that spot be less effective and everything around it grow in?
I deleted about a cup full of HA from the DT today. I've done this in the past and the scrubber wasn't powerful enough to keep it down. Now that its growing in better I have high hopes that the HA won't be able to grow back this time.
I deleted about a cup full of HA from the DT today. I've done this in the past and the scrubber wasn't powerful enough to keep it down. Now that its growing in better I have high hopes that the HA won't be able to grow back this time.
does anybody do what you've done there with your personal scrubber except put the lights on the outside of a glass fishtank instead? like on my 55g I'm using for a fuge I have to turn the unit diagonal in the fuge in order for it to fit, but it I ran it parallel with the front and back glass I could put the lights on the outside of the tank, kinda like you did with your scrubber except they wouldnt be as close, about 6" per side.
Too far ya think?
Too far ya think?
Update: I tested my water today, nitrates at 5 phospahtes still at 0.
I'm feeding approx 10 times more than I did with just the skimmer. Skimmer has been unplugged for 1.5 months now.
Screen is growing in better since I reduced the size of the top pipe for more flow.
I have more pods than I know what to do with, mandarin and sixline are fat and happy, getting a red scooter soon.
I'm feeding approx 10 times more than I did with just the skimmer. Skimmer has been unplugged for 1.5 months now.
Screen is growing in better since I reduced the size of the top pipe for more flow.
I have more pods than I know what to do with, mandarin and sixline are fat and happy, getting a red scooter soon.
Are you using a meter to test your phosphates? That is about the best you can get as a hobbyist and even then there is enough room for error to not be sure your truly at 0 on phosphates.
I wish I was a richo like amp and had a cool monitor device, heck I don't even have light timers for goodness sake 
No, I'm using a salifert test kit, has a little jar and a dropper and a little vial of shugar looking stuff. Until I started using the scrubber the phos was reading .5 for about 6 months, now I'm 9 months in and it's been reading 0 for at least the last 2 now. And my screen isnt even growing anywhere near like some of the pics I've seen of others.
The last time i scrubbed (every sunday) i did get off about a cup full of algae and that was by far my best yet.
It actually doesnt take all that much of this stuff to take your numbers down to 0 (or real close) which is just another prop for how powerfull it really is when it's going with a full screen.
I cut back my hair algae in my DT for the first time in 2 months on sunday as well. pulled off as much as I could and siphoned out the floaties. So far what's left over that I couldnt get off with my hands has not grown, but is staying the same size. I'm hoping this will allow the screen to completley take over this time.
On another note about the phos. the trates were showing somewhere between 5 and 0 but it certainly wasn't 0 so maybe the phos kit is just showing 0 allthough its range bumps up quite a bit to the first mark if I remember right. so it's possible that the phos could still be in control but jsut not look like it on the tests.
I only have one phos kit but I tested trates on an API and a red sea (junk)kits
No, I'm using a salifert test kit, has a little jar and a dropper and a little vial of shugar looking stuff. Until I started using the scrubber the phos was reading .5 for about 6 months, now I'm 9 months in and it's been reading 0 for at least the last 2 now. And my screen isnt even growing anywhere near like some of the pics I've seen of others.
The last time i scrubbed (every sunday) i did get off about a cup full of algae and that was by far my best yet.
It actually doesnt take all that much of this stuff to take your numbers down to 0 (or real close) which is just another prop for how powerfull it really is when it's going with a full screen.
I cut back my hair algae in my DT for the first time in 2 months on sunday as well. pulled off as much as I could and siphoned out the floaties. So far what's left over that I couldnt get off with my hands has not grown, but is staying the same size. I'm hoping this will allow the screen to completley take over this time.
On another note about the phos. the trates were showing somewhere between 5 and 0 but it certainly wasn't 0 so maybe the phos kit is just showing 0 allthough its range bumps up quite a bit to the first mark if I remember right. so it's possible that the phos could still be in control but jsut not look like it on the tests.
I only have one phos kit but I tested trates on an API and a red sea (junk)kits
I guess I'm not so concerned with it being right at 0 as much as I love it to not be at .5
I didn't buy anything but a xenia, GSP and a kenya when my phos was that high before as I knew some of the nicer corals might not tolerate it too well.
