We have dwarf angels, why not dwarf tangs??With all the advances in the science of genetics going on you think they would come out with a Nano Tang.
If they ever come out with a Nano Panther Grouper I'm getting one
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We have dwarf angels, why not dwarf tangs??With all the advances in the science of genetics going on you think they would come out with a Nano Tang.
If they ever come out with a Nano Panther Grouper I'm getting one
I did this exact same thing over 20 years ago to quiet the water dumping into my display tank from my HOB filter. Siliconed the quilting fabric to the filter. That thing would fill up fast with algae.
Sandpaper doesnt work very well. It just makes it smoother. You need something very aggressive to F it up and make it raggedy. Some have used a hole saw. The best I have found is to use a camp saw. Like a timber saw. Really get it ragged.Nice, glad to see you had success with it. So far I’m liking the growth, but I think I need to get some really coarse sand paper and really scrub the knitting mesh so the algae
Sandpaper doesnt work very well. It just makes it smoother. You need something very aggressive to F it up and make it raggedy. Some have used a hole saw. The best I have found is to use a camp saw. Like a timber saw. Really get it ragged.
This is how Bud from Turbo’s Aquarics preps his screens...
Wow, everything looks greatI'm a big believer in algae for nutrient export. The only filtration I have on my 220G is algae, a skimmer, and carbon.
I built a waterfall scrubber that uses the outflow of the skimmer.
Of course, the display is what really matters.
A note about tuning scrubbers. Water running over a screen is not a filter. It is the lights that makes the algae grow and lights, especially LED's, are absolutely tunable. If you want more nitrates and phosphate in your tank, just turn down either the intensity or duration of the lighting.
It's going to take a while for the screen to break in, that is for the algae to grow well. I suggest starting with long duration lighting, ~20 hours, on a low intensity. After it's growing green hair algae, then I would turn up the lighting intensity and decrease the duration until you reach the parameters you want.I just bought a drop in scrubber for my little 25g AIO. What is the best path to take for these when setting up and tuning it for the first time.
Start with a short lighting duration and increase gradually until nutrients are where I want them?
or
start with it on a long duration and shorten until nutrients reach the target?
I will have the luxury of being able to do this without coral, for now. I’d like everything pretty settled and stable before I start dropping corals in.
I agree with the above post. They take a while to break in. I started with my light schedule on 20 hrs, off 4 hrs. As the scrubber starts to produce a little brown or black slime, make sure you clean it. I cleaned mine once a week and each week there was a little more. Now that it's established, I clean it every 3 weeks or soI just bought a drop in scrubber for my little 25g AIO. What is the best path to take for these when setting up and tuning it for the first time.
Start with a short lighting duration and increase gradually until nutrients are where I want them?
or
start with it on a long duration and shorten until nutrients reach the target?
I will have the luxury of being able to do this without coral, for now. I’d like everything pretty settled and stable before I start dropping corals in.
Wont be long until you have a flowing field of beautiful green hair algae, lol. I also still run my skimmer and carbon.Finally getting red and green to replace the brown! Ats again for the win! I will say protein skimming and algae absorbing nutrients prior to skimming are two completly diffrent types of filtration. Why wouldnt you have both? I also utilize bio pellets and charcol.
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