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30 minutes every week with zero flow shouldn't do much to the screen... but it's not ideal. It maybe worth asking around but I believe it should be...
A screen can last about 6 hours without any flow. If that does happen it should be cleaned/harvested and put back online to recover. For coral...
Power savings mostly, the SM100 will cover filtration almost completely for that tank.
I would normally recommend you measure the flow, how Floyd R Turbo has suggested in the scrubber basics thread on RC. However depending how they are...
I am sure I don't understand it perfectly, but from my research this is the basic idea. There a chemist in the house?
3?!! Wow!! Nice! Wish I could even get my hands on one!! It's not easy to get a CFL scrubber working as well as an SM100 does.
This is true, nitrate is a molecule. It doesn't need a month to consume it. It just absorbs it... Not proven but it's believed to be reason some have...
Xenia is the only coral known to not grow when running an algae scrubber. This is due to the corals need for directly feeding on available nitrates....
Cool video. Love the last part, how cool would it be to have that job?! No problem, I'd gladly go scuba glass cleaning every day! Lol
nice find!! with that size tank and that background... I'd guess it came from a doctors office... lol
Same here, a local club member gave me a small frag. In two months it attempted to spread all over my tank! At that point I knew it had to go ASAP,...
Look into garlic treatments for ick in a reef tank. It's works very well. That being said a large water change will not do anything for the ick...
Sorry, I was on the train when I posted this. Didn't mean for it to sound short. Here is the FAQs of the algae scrubber site Algae Scrubbers •...
You should build an open algae scrubber, it will have two effects on your tank. 1. Increase evaporation, which in turn will cool the tank. If you...
+1 good for your tank. When they get bigger they come out during the day more. Mostly seen at night though.
Algeascrubber.net An entire forum dedicated to scrubbers.
I think people are a little crazy about 3D! First it's movies, then your TV and now my algae scrubber. Let me guess I need another pair of glasses...
+1 you want a type of algae to grow.
That build has a bottom drain.
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