Algae scrubber as bio filter.

[markstrimaran]

Added about 15 .75" fry. Into the mix, and started feeding on the 25th, at 1/2 tsp 2x day.

API AMMONIA. Still in check.

 

[markstrimaran]

Tap nitrate, tap ammonia, new ammonia level, false ammonia, from contaminated test vial?

So currently 20ppm nitrate down from 30ppm.
Ammonia at .25ppm down from .50ppm

Merry Christmas.

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Update, latest api, samples.
0 ppm ammonia
Nitrates less than 20 ppm

 

[jaws7777]

just got my self a santa moncia algea scrubber let see how my nitrate goes.

Hows the filter working out for you ?

 

[markstrimaran]

Filter bag, with 3 days of, algea stuff.

 

[markstrimaran]

They have become very aggessive surface feeders. 1st group of "fry" now over an inch. In Chamber 3. The first chamber with enouph fretboard, that they can'
Jump the divider.
Latest .75 fry group. In the daphnia chamber. @ 50 GPD low flow.
Chamber 2 , first dibs on free floating algea. The lone fish, keeps algea, from piling up on bottom.

 

[Richard203]

Hows the filter working out for you ?

I setup mines on Tuesday and I checked today nothing growing yet, gonna wait couple more days till it hit Tuesday then ima email them if nothing grows by then.

 

[markstrimaran]

I setup mines on Tuesday and I checked today nothing growing yet, gonna wait couple more days till it hit Tuesday then ima email them if nothing grows by then.

Santa Monica, mods the algeascrubber.net site
Very fast answered questions.

https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/posts/2294642
Is a local thread.

 

[markstrimaran]

Update: Still zero ammonia.
Feeding 1/2 tsp 2x daily.

 

[markstrimaran]

Micro floating pellets, That my other cichilds are too lazy to swim to the surface, and get before they got sucked into the sump.

The ph color wheel has 7.0 ph the wrong shade. Seachem quality control, must have earmarked them for cheap to eBay distributor.

 

[tarheel96]

Do you know what kind of algae you have growing on the scubbers? It looked like there was a different kind growing on an upflow than on the waterfall scrubbers. Is that right?