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jstdv8
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Hello,
I havent been on for about 5 months due to work and a new baby.
Just thought i'd pop in and update on some things I've tried with my scrubber.
The scrubber has been up almost 3 years now and have had nothing but good luck with it.
I've tried a few things like letting it grow longer than 1 week without removal.
1.) the GHA on the screen starts to peel off and go into the water. This doesnt seem to harm anything, I just scoop them up when I do tank maintenance
2.) the GHA doesnt grow as thick after you let it grow out without removal for a while.
I've let it go for about 2 months with no cleaning, with no adverse effects except a slight water yellowing. main perameters stayed perfect the whole time.
I'm not recommending this as I have since went back to doing it once a week, just stating that if you go on vacation or something and have to leave the tank to someone else for a week or two its not going to hurt anything.
a few months back I had an issue with moisture getting in my controller for my tank and shorting it out. so i lost my timer. I left the lights on full time instead of shutting them off for 8 hours during the day. Don't do this! while the parameters still look good for the most part, the algea doesnt grow hardly at all because it's getting no rest and probably burnt and you get alot of the blacker slimey algea which isn't supposed to be good.
Also i think I killed off most of my pod population as I don't really see many of those anymore where i used to have zillions. this happened about the same time as the timer issue so I'm assuming they got burned out (no pun intended)
I've also noticed that a good guage of weather your screen is working good or not without testing seems to be GHA showing up on your powerheads a little. I did notice that when the screen wasnt producing due to the the timer failrure. Once the screen grew back in the GHA in the tank was quickly killed off from lack of food.
I'm still feeding pretty heavily, but now I only feed every 3-4 days instead of every day as the fish are fat and happy and usually don't eat all of it anyways and the corals are growing fine.
Overall, i couldn't be happier with the system, it's easy, cheap and super efficient.
Anyone else have any updates on their scrubbers? Good or bad?
I havent been on for about 5 months due to work and a new baby.
Just thought i'd pop in and update on some things I've tried with my scrubber.
The scrubber has been up almost 3 years now and have had nothing but good luck with it.
I've tried a few things like letting it grow longer than 1 week without removal.
1.) the GHA on the screen starts to peel off and go into the water. This doesnt seem to harm anything, I just scoop them up when I do tank maintenance
2.) the GHA doesnt grow as thick after you let it grow out without removal for a while.
I've let it go for about 2 months with no cleaning, with no adverse effects except a slight water yellowing. main perameters stayed perfect the whole time.
I'm not recommending this as I have since went back to doing it once a week, just stating that if you go on vacation or something and have to leave the tank to someone else for a week or two its not going to hurt anything.
a few months back I had an issue with moisture getting in my controller for my tank and shorting it out. so i lost my timer. I left the lights on full time instead of shutting them off for 8 hours during the day. Don't do this! while the parameters still look good for the most part, the algea doesnt grow hardly at all because it's getting no rest and probably burnt and you get alot of the blacker slimey algea which isn't supposed to be good.
Also i think I killed off most of my pod population as I don't really see many of those anymore where i used to have zillions. this happened about the same time as the timer issue so I'm assuming they got burned out (no pun intended)
I've also noticed that a good guage of weather your screen is working good or not without testing seems to be GHA showing up on your powerheads a little. I did notice that when the screen wasnt producing due to the the timer failrure. Once the screen grew back in the GHA in the tank was quickly killed off from lack of food.
I'm still feeding pretty heavily, but now I only feed every 3-4 days instead of every day as the fish are fat and happy and usually don't eat all of it anyways and the corals are growing fine.
Overall, i couldn't be happier with the system, it's easy, cheap and super efficient.
Anyone else have any updates on their scrubbers? Good or bad?
