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    Using Seaweed to get rid of nuisance algae in your aquarium or pond

    Reduce the nutrients in the water
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    GlennF's reefing heaven!

    Great to hear about a room-filler tank.
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    HELP! Bulkead and plumbing help

    Same. Also same with Flex pvc... amazing the amount of stuff they have. A backup would be US Plastics.
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    Returning

    The state of residence might determine the state of reef :)
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    Using Seaweed to get rid of nuisance algae in your aquarium or pond

    Using Seaweed to get rid of nuisance algae in your aquarium or pond, part 3 Thinking back now to the oven, and to the heat concentrated inside it, it becomes clear that if that same heat were let out of the oven, your house temperature would get hot, but not near as hot as the oven was. Why...
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    Chaeto Reactors compared to Algae Scrubbers

    More coming soon; hope it helps
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    40 gallon reef

    Might loose a few corals the first time around, before periphyton establishes on the rocks and things stabilize.
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    sumps next to tank

    It is more difficult to put sumps next to tank. Can you get a smaller sump?
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    A tray of morning goodness...

    I'll prepare a plate...
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    A tray of morning goodness...

    Well, the latest is still in beta, and it's the SLIP.7 that is for back compartments of nano's. But if you have a fuge then it sounds like lower sump, and a slightly larger Surf2 or Rain2 is available now.
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    Scrubber materials

    When figuring out what materials to use for an algae scrubber, don't neglect considering strings... sometimes they can hold on to the most growth, because they are narrow and light can get to all sides of them.
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    Animals in a scrubber

    A big benefit of natural algal filtration is that it grow pods, naturally. So not only does the algae absorb ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate, CO2 and metals, but copepods and amphipods get lots of natural food (that's what they eat - algae) so they multiply a lot. And they are protected...
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