Hi Turbo, This is a question for the exploring options section or fit section. I have a fresh water tank and have signed up on the L2. I wondering if I needed to feed the fish more than 2 cubes per day could I just clean it more than once per week? I have 2 rams, 11 cories, 3 lemon tetras, 4 neons in about 75+ gallons. I know they will be getting bigger down the road. Any suggestions? Thanks in advanced.
You want to allow the algae to grow for as long a time as possible between cleanings, as the growth will accelerate over time (called exponential growth) so there is not really a good reason to cut that cycle short. That would actually result in poorer performance.
What other kind of interesting stuff do you/others know regarding freshwater algae scrubbing?...who uses HOB filter in addition?
Sorry for the delay, busy couple weeks. Crashing out here...will post more tomorrow (bump if I don't post by mid day)
Sorry I didn't get back to you You can grow for a longer time period, or have a larger scrubber, or both. For freshwater, the algae grows thinner and finer, and tends to detach a little easier. I have one customer that has 3 units that he runs on freshwater cichlid tanks and he runs the lights 24/7 and gets pretty good growth and is able to keep water changes down to pretty minimal. I have heard that if you run a filter sock on the drain from the scrubber that it will turn green, so I'm not sure if FW scrubbers have more of a tendency to discolor the water, I don't hear a lot from people running freshwater scrubbers
I have a filter sock before my current algae scrubber(H20 running into a large vase, water going first into a filter sock then spilling over on the outside onto the screen with lights position outside and mirror on inside of the vase. , and I get a little green on the sock where light isn't being blocked by the mirror but no green h2o. I think I will go with your L2 and run a HOB in addition if I feed a bit more. Thank you.