Very pretty!
Is the CaCO3 working for phosphate reduction as you’d hoped?
Is that dark purple coralline algae on the rock work?
Is the CaCO3 working for phosphate reduction as you’d hoped?
Is that dark purple coralline algae on the rock work?
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What is this in last picture made from?Update on simple horizontal scrubber. Phos (Elos) and nitrate zero on salifert but obviously not the case. Flow through sump from right hand side, scrubber tile about 1 inch under water surface. First pic is 3 weeks old, scrape and freshwater dip every 2 weeks after initial week. Now it’s started to really take off;
Hey there. For some reason there was a rapid reduction from 1.4ish ppm to 0.8ppm, but then the reduction stopped. I’m still changing out the sand in the reactor but no further phosphate reduction is evident, however, no increase either. Perhaps my rock is more porous than I thought and it’s bound up loads, but it’s calcite ocean rock and doesn’t appear porous. Or perhaps the cement I used had bound some phos (I plan on looking into this option)Is the CaCO3 working for phosphate reduction as you’d hoped?
Is that dark purple coralline algae on the rock work?
Thats the underside of a ceramic floor tile. I no longer grow any algae in the sump. This particular horizontal scrubber started growing bryopsis, at an unbelievable rate. I have played around with scrubbers before, I’ll put the link to my meddling below, if interestedWhat is this in last picture made from?
Thanks for the update.For some reason there was a rapid reduction from 1.4ish ppm to 0.8ppm, but then the reduction stopped. I’m still changing out the sand in the reactor but no further phosphate reduction is evident, however, no increase either.
Dunno how this got in there, not added anything for a while;
Dunno, absolutely no experience with anything other than digitate hydroids. I ramped up my gyres to 100% today and disturbed the sump yesterday, perhaps I dislodged it from its parking space.Hydroid?
Reefing is so cool. The critters that spur are so interesting.
Congrats to being here for 1,000 days!Is it sad to count how many days it’s been since joining R2R?, yes, it probably is.
1000 days today, lol
Hello - Oh no, not again.
Hi reefers. Had a tank(s) some 5 years ago and I entered the weird world of algae scrubbers. I got addicted to green. Sometimes I was up to 2 a.m. researching green. Then up for work @ 0430. Back then I had a mainly softy tank (6x2x2). This time around I’m doing a 60g sps, wish me luck.www.reef2reef.com
Looking good!Been a month since last tank pic, Phos @ 0.2, Nitrate @ 10-15ppm;