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Cleaning Off Slime On New Scrubbers When scrubbers are new, they will almost always first develop a slimey first layer of growth. This is because...
You can also get 3D growth by attaching strings or rails to the screen, so the screen sticks out into the flow.
Beer algae.
Darker growth does contain more proteins, etc, per gram of growth (which is what makes it dark). Problem is it lets go, and it block the roots...
Word on the street is that a submersible scrubber light will be available soon.
You could just paint in the reflectors white, and they would reflect well.
If you can get some light on the sides, it will spread farther across.
That'That's the power of photosynthesis: pulling nutrients out of the water with great force.
Nice progress. The reason it went dark after the dip problem, was because a lot of life died off in the tank, and the scrubber absorbed the nutrients...
Looks amazing.
Wow that's some filtration growing there. As for one or two filters, the answer is that it's always better to have two smaller instead of one bigger...
Coming this summer 2016: Waterfall algae scrubber Version 2 After I invented the waterfall scrubber in 2008, it's great that so many people got to...
Should be fun :)
Coming in 2016: Waterfall algae scrubber Version 2 After I invented the waterfall scrubber in 2008, it's great that so many people got to DIY it,...
Yep that's one of the benefits of a scrubber; you can feed you animals from it. And if you choose your animals correctly, you'll never have to...
HOG1 going to teach the kids about nutrients at: Community Montessori School New Albany, Indiana, USA Teacher: Michael Sylvester
Cubes was used because it's a visible, measurable thing, with no difference between U.S. and metric.
Maybe you can ask them if they want to do a nutrient recycling study.
Thanks. It's interesting how many middle and high schools have aquariums, even reefs, in the classroom.
Hopefully readers that day will click on the Coral article and learn about it.
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