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  1. SantaMonica

    Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    Here are some upflow layout designs to give you ideas of what might fit your tank or ability to DIY better: Simple upflow screen: Attach to glass: Bubble remover: Attach to glass, with compartment: Attach to glass, small: Hang on back: Collector: Floating:
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    Mega Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover - DIY!

    Yes he has a metal plate, and then a metal heat sink, shown there. There are many options for LEDs... try googling "seaweed cultivator grow light"
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    Need help

    Good point about the glass. Letting it stay on the glass give you cleaner water.
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    I'm back.......maybe

    Time to start some big threads.
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    My NoPOX Experiment

    How is it doing now?
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    A Simple Way To Try Out Aquaponics For Your Fish Tank

    Yep that's about as simple as possible. I got a Kickstarter aquaponic called Vita.
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    African Dwarf Frogs Fighting

    Well I don't know too much about the care of the frogs, but I do think they look neat.
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    Need help

    If you have not fixed it yet, it should go away if you don't scrub surfaces. The stuff (periphyton) on the surfaces absorbs nutrients, and the more it absorbs, the less nutrients will be in the water to feed the green.
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    Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    Here are some scrubber results I collected: "[Scrubber] is working incredible well. Went from constant algae outbreaks (3-4 per year), to no algae at all. 10 yr old 250 gal reef tank, started developing blooms at year 7. Nothing else worked, even breakdown and rebuilds." -- Joe Lopez "I recent...
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    Live Rock: The Foundation of a Healthy Marine Aquarium

    This applies to LR as well: What is Periphyton? Periphyton is what turns your rocks different colors. You know... the white rocks you started with in SW, or the grey rocks (or brown wood) you started with in FW. After several months or years, the rocks become a variety of different colors and...
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    Hi Folks

    Late welcome, but hello there.
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    David Attenborough's Reef

    www.AttenboroughsReef.com
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    Changing gravel

    Yet another trick is to get a plastic sheet to stick down into the gravel, so you can remove the gravel on one side of it, and replace with new, without mixing with the rest of the gravel. Then in a week, do another section.
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    Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    PowerPoint presentation for clubs, schools, etc., to learn the basics of scrubbers: http://www.algaescrubber.net/AlgaeScrubbers-plain.pps
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    Mega Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover - DIY!

    Coming this summer 2016: Waterfall algae scrubber Version 2 After I invented the waterfall scrubber in 2008, it's great that so many people got to DIY it, and it's also great that lots of builders/sellers used it as their design up until the current day. It's had over 7 years to gather...