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  1. #101
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    Glad that light works so well. Almost any light is cheaper than LED's for the same lumens. My 4 T5's on my acrylic put out 8000 lumens total, and the bulbs are only $7 each.

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    Successes of the Day:

    brianhellno on the MFK site: "Just wanted to share my success with a turf scrubber with my freshwater tank. Currently I have a 125 with (5) 6-inch piranha, (6) 4-inch giant danios, about (20) 1-inch baby black cons, (2) 2-inch green terrors, (2) 2-inch jack dempseys, and (1) 2.5 inch blue malawi cichlid. The smaller fish were all supposed to be feeders, but the piranha ignore them. Anyways I've had the scrubber up and running for almost three weeks now and I finally tested the water parameters: Ammonia 0 ppm, Nitrite 0 ppm, Nitrate 5 ppm. Not too bad! Usually the Nitrate sits around 40 to 80 ppm right before a water change, so this is definitely an improvement. All I can say is thanks for the great idea!

    worley on the scrubber site: "Well just got my phosphate test kit and did a test... *drumroll* .... 0ppm. It's the API phosphate test kit, and it was the very lightest green on the salt water card (0ppm). That's a great result, especially as I'm now feeding tonnes into the tank, 1 block of brine shrimp and 1 of mysis, plus some live brine (fed with live phyto a an hour before feeding to the fish) and some pellet foods. [...] I still can't get over the phosphate test, and how low the nitrates are considering there's not been a water change in 2 months and so much food has gone in.

    jan on the RPhil site: "Today is my 24th day of cycling, I measured my water my parameters and here are the result: Nitrate 0ppm. Turf algae is almost all over my screen Razz !!!! thanks for this great Idea!

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    Well I do know this for fact, The Smithsonian had a huge tank in its basement, they to used Turf scrubbers to keep it. The scrubers were huge, massive etc etc. But no matter what they did it kept crashing. The turf scrubbers just did not do what they are supposed to. Ill stick to my Fuge.

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    It's well known now what they did wrong. Did not clean the screen weekly (actually, did not clean it for over a year), and certainly did not take the screens out and clean them in a sink.

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    Builds/Designs Of The Week:



    Aqualityplace on the UR site:

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    Nickq on the UR site:

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    Dave3441 on the UR site:

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    RentalDeceptionist on the UR site:

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    Workers99 on the UR site:

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    Bluespotjawfish on the RS site:

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    Reefski on the MD site:

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    Christophe on the MD site:

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    Sharkey18 on the MD site:

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    Loveaneighbor on the MD site:

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    Dohn on the MASA site; not DIY-able, but good idea for manufacturing:

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    Riaanp on the MASA site; this is on the back of a nano. The light is actually inside of the compartment, and he says it does not get wet at all:

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    Franske on the MASA site:

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    Enatiello on the RS site:

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    GlaringToast on the MFT site:

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    Jan on the RP site:

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    IamFood on the SG site:

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    Johntanjm on the SG site:

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    UserJohntanjmOnSG 7 - Anybody here used a turf scrubber before?

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