Any science behind this? I'm curious cause I'm considering one. I've seen mixed results and I'm looking for more than speculation.Morcs;3732257; said:
Above tank FX5 powerd Algae scrubber build (pics)
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Interesting build!It will be cool to see how this works as its so much more compact than the stand up designs.
So its been about three days since I started this algae scrubber, and for two days it had very little algae growth. Even early this morning when I turned it on and checked up on it, there was only small bits of algae and a thin green tint. Well when I got home 18 hrs later this is what I found when I checked before lights out.
yea, im not expecting much for a while, but hopefully it grows in nice and thick here real soon. So we shall see what it dose in the comeing months.
OK well its been almost two weeks since I fired it up, and I cleaned it about 4 days in, and now I have a thick carpet of green/brown algae growing. In fact the green hair algae was hanging all the way down into the tank. Last night I did my first water change in 8 days (since I gave the scrubber its first cleaning) and here is the Nitrate reading, its just barely regestering. Wich is awsome b/c usualy the tank will be sitting at somwhere near 20ppm after a week. So there you have it folks, its working! How well is to be seen but its doing pretty good so far.
any chance we can get a current pic of the scrubber?
