Mega-Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover Replaces Skimmer, Refugium, part 1-4

[snailrider]

I have a feeling the halides are wasteful, when a good t-5 6500k would do a better job cheaper. Unless this halide is a plant spectrum halide that is.

But boy, talk about an evaporative cooler eh?

 

[SantaMonica]

Yep, but he had an extra one from some tanks he shut down.

 

[corinna]

**** it all, I just paid 650 euros for an octopus 3000 and was reallypleased with it, then found this thread....do I rip it sstraight out or run a turf mat alongside? And can I seed by using the turf that grows on the rocks on the beach??

 

[SantaMonica]

Keep it until your new screen drops your N and P. And you can't really seed with turf; you just get green hair and brown diatoms growing to start with anyway, so just seed with them.

 

[corinna]

excuse me for being dense, but where does the turf arrive from then??

 

[SantaMonica]

Its spores are already present in every tank.

 

[SantaMonica]

Well I'm trying to get caught up with the posts; gonna have to combine a few here to get them out without postponing anymore. Here are some results feedback:


"Pong" on the RF site said "i had a lot of green hair algae growing on my screen. noticed that the red algae in my DT has lessened dramatically."

"Johnt" on the UR site said "I've always used phosphate remover. I've tried most makes but always ended back using Rowa. since running the scrubber I've stopped the phosphate reactor and despite the scrubber not yet being at the Turf Algae stage the phosphate readings are dropping."

And "thauro77" on the SWF site said "Here are my test results, the dates are the water changes dates as well:

08/28
Calcium 660mg/l (when I first used the filter)
Carbonate 196.9 ppm/kh
Phosphate 0.5
Nitrates 20ppm

09/04
Calcium 500
Carbonate 214.8
Phosphate 0.5
Nitrates 10ppm

09/09
Calcium 440
carbonate 143.2
phosphate 0.5
nitrates 10ppm

09/23
calcium 440
carbonate 214.8
phosphate 0.25
nitrate 5.0ppm

 

[SantaMonica]

Reminder Of The Day:

Lighting Duration: Set up your scrubber lighting on a timer for 18 hours ON, and six hours OFF. The scrubber itself won't care when those hours are, but if you want, you can have them on when your display lights are off, so as to help balance pH in the system.

 

[snailrider]

Update on LED scrubber:

new tank setup

amonia 0
ph 8
alk 300
nitrite 8
nitrate 40

Seems to be into the cycle.

and here is fresh install (with seed algae), day 1, day 2, and day 3 scrubber pics. Seems to be slightly more growth where the blue is less and red predominant.

 

[SantaMonica]

Wow that's great for day 3. Any chance of getting the led panel down into that space, parallel to the screen?