Here is mine
This thing grows cheato like I have never seen love it
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Here is mine
This thing grows cheato like I have never seen love it
Would running an algae reactor alongside a uv sterilizer defeat the purpose of the algae reactor???
Great info. I was misunderstanding where exactly the algae reactor process removed the nutrients. In the reactor or in the water column.Two completely different things. The algae reactor will remove excess Nitrate & Phosphate, steady overnight Ph, hopefully out-compete micro algae.
The UV will kill any algae spores in the water column, help clear bad bacteria in the tank, raise your ORP (oxidation reduction potential), and if run at a proper flow rate can kill pathogens and parasites.
If you're using a lower end UV whose main purpose is the algae control then you may not get as many benefits, but they would still complement each other as far as oxygenation of the tank water. The reactor can remove nutrients, a UV cannot. It can only deal with free floating algae spores, which is how you keep it from spreading, while the reactor will hopefully keep it from forming in the first place.
But no, one does not negate the other. I plan to run both on my new setup as well.
Realistically, what can I expect from adding this to my system? A 5 -10 ppm decrease maybe? Combined with an anaerobic bacteria reactor, possibly a 10-15 ppm reduction?
Just had mine setup.
Aquamaxx reactor
I have been having algae problem and I think it's due to my phosphate level being at 0.2-0.3. Running GFO doesn't seem to be very effective and it is also quite expensive.
Just had mine setup.
Aquamaxx reactor
I have been having algae problem and I think it's due to my phosphate level being at 0.2-0.3. Running GFO doesn't seem to be very effective and it is also quite expensive.
Realistically, what can I expect from adding this to my system? A 5 -10 ppm decrease maybe? Combined with an anaerobic bacteria reactor, possibly a 10-15 ppm reduction?
Did you go with the AquaMaxx kit that comes with the Accel Aquatics lights?
GFO should definitely be effective with lowering phosphates, but is overly expensive. Were you running the correct amount and at the proper flow rate? Usually when you have high phosphate and you run gfo, it will lower the phosphates but will get used up pretty fast at first. You have to replace it often in the beginning until you're at a consistently low level. But who wants to spend all that money if there's a natural way.
I was going to contact Accel Aquatics to see about a longer led strip but I can't find any info on them at all. They don't have a webpage, no contact info, no warranty support info (according to Google). I couldn't find a parent company or anything. Because people seem to have good results with their lights and I don't think they run hot. They're just very short. But it's like they're a ghost. No info on the web at all.
Do you find the lights run hot? If you don't mind, can you post a link to them?
I do think I need to replace the GFO because I stared with a small amount as suggested by many people. But it is very expensive on the long run.
I had to turn off the LED lights I bought on Amazon posted in this thread a few days ago because it got so hot that when I touched it I thought I got burnt. The AC/DC power adapter also got extremely hot and made me worry. Maybe this is a good setup when the weather is colder.
I do have the accel light from MD but it is kind short so I didn't use it. I will test it out to see how hot it gets. If it stays relative cool I will give it a shot on the smaller reactor. I have both the big and small ones. I will keep updating until I find a solution lol
No, it's not a cold weather thing. It's the lights. They aren't the proper ones. They shouldn't get hot like that. It's just the Amazon lights seem to be hit or miss. I bet the Accel lights won't get hot like that.
Read an interesting article (believe it was in Politico, but not sure) that demonstrated that artificially grown algae is actually detrimental to the growth of healthy Zooplankton. It seems artificially grown algae does not contain the same nutrient levels that naturally grown algae does so that eventually the zooplankton starve. To me that makes the case for an algae reactor versus sump grown algae but remains to be seen if there is further evidence of what they found.