Mega Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover - DIY!

[zennzzo]

Gee wizz guys... (like the sixties slang there?) If you can't grow Algae then your not a Monster Fish Keeper... it's easy... Over stock your tanks and you'll have it comming out your butts

Yeah I hear ya there!...It's I'm such a control freak, I want to grow it in a certain place...NOW!!

 

[Jgray152]

You're both barking up the wrong tree. The water won't slow down, the layer would have to get thicker or roll off the edges to slow down. It also won't speed up unless it forms rivulets, or if it's quite thick at the top and the layer narrows at the bottom. A flow equilibrium is formed within a few inches of the top of the screen where the hydraulic losses balance gravity.

Point is, the growth he's seeing isn't flow related. I recall he's got heavy growth near the top of his scrubber too where the pipe shades the screen a bit. I'd tend to lean in with Jgray's second suggestion that the F/W algae may have different light requirements than the S/W

I was thinking of the adheasion properties of water where is ever molecule moving I would think would stick to other molecules on the boundery layer but would more or less slide of brake loose from it causing a loss of velocity due to the friction? It was just a suggested idea..

 

[Jgray152]

I am going to let this one go until I have to scrape, then I'll try something else...to many changes and I'll not know how to duplicate the results...
I am curious why direct isn't better than indirect...

I would suggest creating shade over the entire thing and see if algae start to really bloom in the weak areas. Then we may have a general idea that to much light maya be a bad thing. More testing would have to be done ofcourse.

 

[basslover34]

Now this is how you grow this stuff... New Divider on Monday and this is what it looks like today

 

[zennzzo]

Now this is how you grow this stuff... New Divider on Monday and this is what it looks like today

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There's a tank full-o-nitrAtes

 

[basslover34]

LOL

Wanna see the reason why??

 

[zennzzo]

LOL

Wanna see the reason why??

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Thanks...Now I got drool all in my laptop keyboard...

 

[SantaMonica]

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Today's build of the day is from "Bob the (reef)builder" on the MASA site, the same fellow who made the outdoor scrubber. He now is the first one to build the acrylic Santa Monica version for his own tank. Here is the original layout I posted a while back:

(It's currently the only filter of any kind on my tank.)

Here is Bob's version of the same thing; It's 4 feet long, using 2 T5's on each side:

 

[zennzzo]

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Today's build of the day is from "Bob the (reef)builder" on the MASA site, the same fellow who made the outdoor scrubber. He now is the first one to build the acrylic Santa Monica version for his own tank. Here is the original layout I posted a while back:

(It's currently the only filter of any kind on my tank.)

Here is Bob's version of the same thing; It's 4 feet long, using 2 T5's on each side:

Nice acrylic work, hope it performs as good as it looks...

 

[SantaMonica]

Without a doubt, with high power bulbs that close to the screen, results will be great. Mine is half that size and it's running my whole tank.