Algae Reactor

OhMatic Jr · Dec 12, 2016

It's hard to believe a white light would out perform a red & blue grow light to how algae.
I changed the lights on my ClearTides reactor to red & blue grow LEDs(twice as many as stock), I increased the water flow with bigger and more intake and outflow ports and I still hate it.
My ATS is just far superior at growing algae and is much easier to use.

atoll · Mar 15, 2017

Any updates guys esp with the Cleartides reactors for those who bought one?

TD13 · Mar 16, 2017

Still using my phosban 550 and loving it.

cracker · Mar 16, 2017

This seems to be a very cool concept. What's the difference between the light inside as opposed to being wrapped around the outside ? Sure would solve heat issues.

olegaz · Mar 17, 2017

atoll said:
Any updates guys esp with the Cleartides reactors for those who bought one?

hi mate,i can deffo confirm that its working and my tank is gha free, but its not chaeto cant outgrow gha, u have to manually remove all gha first, a had to take my all rock and treated with 3% oxygen peroxide, but after that never had problems with gha.

SantaMonica · Mar 19, 2017

Placement of light does not matter. Only power matters, and thin-ness of growth so the light can get all the way through.

Southpawzzz · Mar 22, 2017

Olegaz, whst are you parameters in your tank now and at the start mainly nitrate and phosphate.

titoreefs · Mar 25, 2017

Santamonica,
Why are you trying so hard to bash the CT product?
No offence intended but Its clearly working for the ones that are using it.

landlubber · Mar 25, 2017

i have no doubt these could work on a smaller system but are they effective on a larger system? op's tank is 1/4 the size of mine and is running a chaeto reactor that's already the size of my skimmer.

atoll · Mar 25, 2017

landlubber said:
i have no doubt these could work on a smaller system but are they effective on a larger system? op's tank is 1/4 the size of mine and is running a chaeto reactor that's already the size of my skimmer.

CT do 3 differen sizes.

olegaz · Mar 28, 2017

Southpawzzz said:
Olegaz, whst are you parameters in your tank now and at the start mainly nitrate and phosphate.

hi mate .
last time i checked phosphates it was 0.12 with hanna , my nitrates was below 5 as im runing pellets to

Doob · Mar 28, 2017

I put this together last weekend. The hard part is finding some chaeto around here.

It's on a JBJ 45. I upgraded the return pump recently, so open of the stock JBJ returns (265gph) is running this.

What kind of flow do you put through it?

brogers · Apr 17, 2017

titoreefs said:
Santamonica,
Why are you trying so hard to bash the CT product?
No offence intended but Its clearly working for the ones that are using it.

Dont listen to him, Santa Monica Algae scrubbers blow.

brogers · Apr 17, 2017

olegaz said:
Hi everybody id like to start thread on algae reactors. Everybody welcome to post there finds, diy project, conversions and so on.
today i set up my algae reactor which i bought from ebay, its made by cleartides.
this is there smallest unit, i thinking upgrading standard light to hydroponics
i will run on opposite light cycle and will post results as soon as

Hello, looking to purchase this reactor but have some questions. The footprint says its 6.5 inches but in your pictures it looks to be much larger! What is it?