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  1. SantaMonica
    5 red, 1 blue
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    Two 20 watts LED growlight floodlights would work. Or one of the small LED round UFO grow lights (might be too wide though). Screen is plastic canvas from sewing or craft or hobby store.
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    Growth is good so the LEDs are good. Next 14 days should grow more on the screen.
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    Hard to see it. Can you turn the red off, and move the lights away?
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    Air Pump Recommendations for UAS® upflow algae scrubbers®. Having bought and tried all of these, here are the best ones: Flow (highest to lowest): Coralife Super Luft... TONS of flow for multiple outlets or multiple scrubbers Tetra Whisper 300... High flow if both outlets are combined into one JW Aquatic Fusion 700... High flow if both outlets are combined into one Tetra Whisper 150... Good flow for one outlet Coralife Luft (regular)... Good flow for one outlet Noise (most to least): Coralife Super Luft... (Loud; vibrates) Coralife Luft (regular)... (Vibrates) JW Aquatic Fusion 700... Slight vibration Tetra Whisper 300... Silent Tetra Whisper 150... Silent Size: (big to small): Tetra Whisper 300... Large JW Aquatic Fusion 700... Medium Coralife Super Luft... Medium Tetra Whisper 150... Medium Coralife Luft (regular)... Small Cost (most to least): Coralife Super Luft Coralife Luft (regular) Tetra Whisper 300 Tetra Whisper 150 JW Aquatic Fusion 700 Overall winner for a single UAS scrubber used at home: JW Aquatic Fusion 700 (also is the only one with adjustable flow) Overall winner for multiple UAS scrubbers if noise if ok: Coralife Super Luft
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    Really need pics to tell.
  7. SantaMonica
    Waterfall or upflow?
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    Bare. Get "wide angle", which is also called "lambertian". It is 120 to 140 degrees beam spread.
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    No, you want 2700 or 3000k, or 660nm red.
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    !!! Probably the most growth I've seen yet on a 4 X 6 UAS scrubber. Well the screen is at craft or sewing stores or online as "plastic canvas". The rest is just a box, sliced airline, air pump, light, and reflector (or LEDs)
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    A waterfall scrubber is difficult to put on a nano because it needs to be above it. An upflow scrubber would be easier...
  12. SantaMonica
    For nano's with compartments in the back, the easiest is probably to use one of the compartments. The light can go on the outside of the glass (you might need to remove paint from the glass.)
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    !!!
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    Nice growth in just the first 14 days Notice how it is concentrated where the bubbles are strongest...
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    Is the screen roughed up canvas with holes? Hours of light per day? Probably need pics.
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    Red slime is from very low-light. Bright light will allow green to out-grow the red.
  17. SantaMonica
    They are the drawings we have already posted
  18. SantaMonica
    Tanks size does not matter. How much are the feeding? 11 X 11 = 121 sq in = 10 cubes of food per day, and need at least 121 real CFL watts or 60 LED watts. Yep.
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    Wow looks perfect. Are you using the same single LED? You could clean it and then attach it to the new screen for a few weeks, then remove it later.
  20. SantaMonica
    The more red, the better. 2700 has more red. 660nm LEDs are all red.
  21. SantaMonica
    LCF: Flow seems good, but hard to tell unless you lift up the screen. Sherman: Your light is too low. Scrape everything off, all the way to the screen, and make sure your light is on 18 hours. Double the wattage if you can.
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    Minoz... screen needs to be smaller, and MUCH rougher... can't just scrape some plastic. Needs to be plastic canvas, roughed up. Reflector needs to be bigger (and 2-sided is much better), and bulbs need to be 2700 or 3000k... Scrubbers are now sized according to feeding. Nutrients "in" (feeding) must equal nutrients "out" (scrubber growth), no matter how many gallons you have. So... An example VERTICAL waterfall screen size is 3 X 4 inches = 12 square inches of screen (7.5 X 10 cm = 75 sq cm) with a total of 12 real watts (not equivalent) of fluorescent light for 18 hours a day. If all 12 watts are on one side, it is a 1-sided screen. If 6 watts are on each side, it is a 2-sided screen, but the total is still 12 watts for 18 hours a day. This screen size and wattage should be able to handle the following amounts of daily feeding: 1 frozen cube per day (2-sided screen), or 1/2 frozen cube per day (1-sided screen), or 10 pinches of flake food per day (2-sided screen), or 5 pinches of flake food per day (1-sided screen), or 10 square inches (60 sq cm) of nori per day (2-sided screen), or 5 square inches (30 sq cm) of nori per day (1-sided screen), or 0.1 dry ounce (2.8 grams) of pellet food per day (2-sided screen), or 0.05 dry ounce (1.4 grams) of pellet food per day (1-sided screen) High-wattage technique: Double the wattage, and cut the hours in half (to 9 per day). This will get brown screens to grow green much faster. Thus the example above would be 12 watts on each side, for a total of 24 watts, but for only 9 hours per day. If growth starts to turn YELLOW, then increase the flow, or add iron, or reduce the number of hours. And since the bulbs are operating for 9 hours instead of 18, they will last 6 months instead of 3 months. Very rough screen made of roughed-up-like-a-cactus plastic canvas. Clean algae off of screen every 7 to 14 days, so that you can see the white screen material.
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    - Microbial Food Web - Trophic Pyramids
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    - Bacteria - Food Webs
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