Lowest cost way to eliminate green hair, bubble & turf

[Bruno Braz]

Segundo o fred tem em agropecuaria, eu tbm to tentando achar.

Nossa, seria o último lugar que eu procuraria hehehehe.

Vou começar a caçada tb.

[jose Jorge]

Talvez encontre na Plastitécnica...............rua Augusta 215...................

[João Pedro]

I really liked this system but do not know how to use it

[SantaMonicaHelp]

Muito legal essa ideia.

Me deu vontade de tentar fazer um protótipo.

Tenho um Nano com 60 Litros (Boyu Tl 450) e utilizo nele um Skimmer CPR Bak Pak 2.

A ideia é usar o compartimento de retorno desse Skimmer:



Onde consigo esse plastico para fazer a grade?

È possibile utilizzare "tela di plastica" come lo schermo. Si possono acquistare presso il negozio artigianale o negozio di cucito. È inoltre possibile ottenere da ebay o online in luoghi come "www.everythingplasticcanvas.com"

[Ramon Brescovici]

SantaMonicaHelp, wow, parla italiano è?

you can say it in english and i'll translate

[Ramon Brescovici]

unable to find the proper base to the algae growth, i decided to do it myself, so today i took a drill +acrilic plate and soon will post the definitive version
(sem conseguir achar o plastico certo pra montar o local das algas crescere, decidi fazer o meu com uma furadeira, depois poosto a versao final)


this is the temporary (test) one



as you can see it floats cuz the 'net' i used as base to algae is maleable.

[SantaMonicaHelp]

SantaMonicaHelp, wow, parla italiano è?

you can say it in english and i'll translate

That's my bad. I was using Google translate and I guess I chose the wrong language.

For the algae screen, you can use "Plastic Canvas". You can usually buy them in a craft store under sewing section or a sewing store.
You can also buy them online, such as eBay or "www.everythingplasticcanvas.com"

[Ramon Brescovici]

translation of SantaMonicaHelp, msg.
tradução da mensagem: para o painel das algas, pode ser usado o "plastic canvas". voce os pode encontrar geralmente em lojas na seçao "Serras", marcenaria, ou em loja especializada de serralheria.
ou comprar online.

SantaMonicaHelp, i went to about 10 stores here at my city, and no luck at all!. lol. tkz anyway

[SantaMonicaHelp]

translation of SantaMonicaHelp, msg.
tradução da mensagem: para o painel das algas, pode ser usado o "plastic canvas". voce os pode encontrar geralmente em lojas na seçao "Serras", marcenaria, ou em loja especializada de serralheria.
ou comprar online.

SantaMonicaHelp, i went to about 10 stores here at my city, and no luck at all!. lol. tkz anyway

Thank you for your translating. Plastic canvas are usually used in cross stitch. I guess if you can not find them in craft store you need to buy them online.

[Ramon Brescovici]

translation of SantaMonicaHelp, msg.
tradução da mensagem:
Plastic canvas também é usado pra ponto cruzado (costura).


tkz for the tips.

[Ramon Brescovici]

i went to a tailor store and found one suitable. the good point, its cheap, no need to wash. the bad point, its not hard material... so i'll have to build another eggcrate "borderline" (again i lack the words to express my idea) where i'll fix the algae screen

[SantaMonicaHelp]

i went to a tailor store and found one suitable. the good point, its cheap, no need to wash. the bad point, its not hard material... so i'll have to build another eggcrate "borderline" (again i lack the words to express my idea) where i'll fix the algae screen

Great, looking forward to your pictures

[SantaMonicaHelp]

This is the new design with bubble remover. :)


editado por (edited by) Ramon
( SantaMonicaHelp, hope you dont mind, i find more suitable to translate your img inside your msg. )

Legenda da imagem:
Filtro de Algas de Baixo pra Cima
Pendurado na parte de trás - FVM ou manufaturado

window show yellow so you can see it = o compartimento está em amarelo para que possa notar o filtro

LED air holes = buracos de ar para o led

[SantaMonicaHelp]

Thanks Ramon for your translation

[SantaMonicaHelp]

Você tem alguma sugestão para o melhor fabricante para fazer isso?

[SantaMonicaHelp]

This is the Collector UAS Scrubber. :)


Legenda
Este é o Coletor UAS Scrubber
Overflow from display = queda dágua do display
Bubbles flow into collector = fluxo de bolhas para o coletor
Bubbles flow out the top = as bolhas saem pelo topo
Lights not shown = luzes não mostradas

[SantaMonicaHelp]

Some success stories of people who built upflow algae scrubbers...

ReeferMat on the MASC site: "So I decided to build one of these [UAS scrubbers] today. It's huge because all I had was a 12 inch airstone, but I'm hoping that won't matter too much. It cost me less than $20 to build, so if it works that is the best bang for the buck I have ever seen in the war on algae! It has been up and running for 3 months now and I have to say my tank looks a lot better. Every time I clean it it grows a new type of algae, slime, turf, etc... and it grows fast. I would say I have seen a decline in nuisance algae in my tank, but to be honest that would be an understatement.... It has all but eradicated it. Every time I look at the scrubber I can't help but think that all that junk would be growing in my DT"

Owenreefin on the PNWMAS site: "The first two months of running this UAS scrubber thing I was convinced I was going to rip it out for the algae growth was dismal, and I figured that my system just couldn't make it work. (I also have algae in my fuge) WELL I WAS WRONG. The thing started to really kick in. So much so that I just conducted my only water change in 2 months and I hardly think it was even necessary. I usually do a change of 30% every 2 weeks. My sand bed has cleared up big time too. With the water change I pulled out a good baseball sized amount of algae off the scrubber, couldn't be happier! I will always be running one of these. I will post pics of its growth next time I change water. Many months from now. :) "

Bobba on the scrubber site: "Well, it's been almost 3 weeks with the HOG.5, and 2 with my lone Turbo snail. I am happy to report that I have no Hair Algae left in the tank. No signs of any regrowth of what the snail has eaten either."

Clavius on the scrubber site:

"I've been running a 500 liter tank now for 5 years. It is very well stocked with SPS, LPS, softies, filter feeders and a modest amount of fish. The nutrients were being kept very low by a combination of a giant skimmer and the ZEOvit method. Off course, this results in very lightly coloured corals, which was my goal. Generally I'm very pleased with the colouring and growth of my corals, and please with my tank in general. But one battle I've always lost: brown algae covering my sandbed. I could not, for the life of me, find what was causing those algae. Not to mention solve it. I've tried many many things to solve it, but up untill recently, without luck.

Almost three weeks ago though, I installed a HOG.5 unit. It was a little experiment that I wanted to do ever since I learned about algae scrubbers. I was never creative enough to build one myself, as the space in my 100 ltr sump is very limited. The HOG.5 was affordable and tiny enough to enable my experiment. I could even fit 6 of those units in there with ease. Off course, with the ZEO-method, my nutrients already were really very low. I couldn't measure any NO3 or PO4 with my Salifert test kits. And I never bothered with more expensive kits; unmeasurable should be good enough. I wanted to see if the vitamins and amino acids that the algae scrubber produces would add anything to my reef. And, more importantly, if the algae would consume "something" that the brown algae on my sandbed require.

The result in my sandbed is staggering. After only 3 weeks, not a trace of the pesky brown algae is left! An extra benefit, that I didn't expect, is that my lightly coloured corals now all have noticably much more colour. Without getting darker. They seem to glow! I don't know if it is from the vitamins that are released in the water [from the algae scrubber]. Or maybe the ugly brown algae [on the sand] were also covering my corals and that I now finally seeing my uncovered corals! Strangely enough, the algae in my HOG.5 aren't light green, as you would expect with nutrient-poor tanks. But they're a mix of dark brown with red tints here and there. So, I have no idea why that is or how that works. But at this stage I'm just so happy that I really don't care."

[jose Jorge]

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[jose Jorge]

A Tela com medida maior achei nesse site...............29 X 19.............

PALAVRA DE BUSCA : TELA PLÁSTICA PARA PONTO CRUZ

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[SantaMonicaHelp]

A Tela com medida maior achei nesse site...............29 X 19.............

PALAVRA DE BUSCA : TELA PLÁSTICA PARA PONTO CRUZ

http://www.lojamais.com.br/produto/2774 ... ruz-19x29-

Thanks.