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[Lasse]

Not yet - I have not got it yet but it should be this type - the smallest

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I will run it as an algae reactor in order to see if I can get down in PO4 a little more and if I can use it as a better nitrification filter. Chaeto in a reactor should be a perfect nitrification equipment. Enormous attaching area, good flow and high oxygen content. The flow will bring enough of oxygen when light is out and when light is on - you can´t get a better environment for nitrification in a tank. I have never seen this used by propose in a reef tank but there is a lot of freshwater examples using plants as elodea (not maybe in aquarium but in waste water treatments plant and shrimp/fish farms ). After that I start to analyze both NO2 and NO3 - I have notice that my NO2 levels is around 0.02 mg/L. My refugium is rather small - will see if this can speed up the process. I need to take away my GFO reactor if this should fit my tank. My NO3 concentrations is around 1-4 mg/L (compensated for NO2)

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

I´m just now trying to get decent photos of some of my fishes - but it is not an easy task to take a good picture of some of them - Cardinals - yes but wrasses and my shy fishes........

Here is some efforts but I´m not totally satisfied with the results - it shows the beauty of each species but the photographs is not perfect yet

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Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

FTS

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Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

Finally - a rather good video of my possum wrasse


Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

More pictures

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MVH Lasse

 

[ksed]

Very nice pictures. Aquarium look great!

 

[scdigby]

That is gorgeous!

 

[Lasse]

Very nice pictures. Aquarium look great!

That is gorgeous!

Thank you both

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

Later this day I´m going to take away some of the new growth of my montipora - It looks like this for the moment. I need more light to the bottom of the aquarium.

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Sincerely Lasse

 

[Katrina71]

Thank you and I have "bolding" the important word in this case. Talents comes with experiences and experiences comes with time - or let me say - time to do enough of mistakes



Thank you - but I think that many of my pictures is works because I use a camera that allows all mistake you can do at the same time and still deliver a decent picture. My best picture ever was taken more or less without me notice it. I realize how good is was when I was going through the photos in my usual way. Put them in photoshop and "show real pixels". Some of the videos is just done by running the camera at a certain spot in the aquaria and see what's happen. Since a year - I have not find my favourite edition program (Windows movie maker) but recently I found some that let me pick out scenarios and put them together to one video (free)

This is my best photo till now (and maybe for ever) - It is of my "Linslus" (Photobomber in english). With a little help I could take out the best of the original photo. Observe - the only manipulation done is that I cut out this

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from this particular photo

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Sincerely Lasse

WOW! Stunning!

 

[Lasse]

Now I have take away a lot of my montipora - it will take some time before ots look OK again

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Sincerely Lasse

 

[Tristren]

Looking amazing as always.

 

[Lasse]

Thank you @Tristren

Here is my new project according automation. I feed with cyclops and invertebrate food during night with help of dosing pumps. I want my return and skimmer pump to slow during during feeding and around 15 minutes after that. I have bought a digital input card and want to activate the inputs automatically. I will use a power hub for that.

Here is the first part - hub and break out card

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Testing if my ideas works out as they should - using a Profilux P 3.1 The ADIN card have a RJ 45 contact and it is connected to my break out box The power hub can shout and open the relays - shout down - digital signal in. I relays have a switch number in the profilux and I can program these switches in a normal way. The digital in signal can activate a maintenance program that slow down the pumps I want to slow down

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It works and now I´m waiting for the next update of P4 because I have to take it out and install the card. This will probably change my indexes and it is best to make all changes at the same time.

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

New video - look carefully it is a lot of species showing up


Sincerely Lasse

 

[Mortie31]

Not yet - I have not got it yet but it should be this type - the smallest

ITC Aquatics offers another algae reactor option for UK reefers | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

ITC Aquatics, mainly a UK distributor of major global aquarium brands, has recently released a line of Algae Light Reactors (ALR) in three separate sizes to combat nitrates and phosphates in the…

reefbuilders.com

I will run it as an algae reactor in order to see if I can get down in PO4 a little more and if I can use it as a better nitrification filter. Chaeto in a reactor should be a perfect nitrification equipment. Enormous attaching area, good flow and high oxygen content. The flow will bring enough of oxygen when light is out and when light is on - you can´t get a better environment for nitrification in a tank. I have never seen this used by propose in a reef tank but there is a lot of freshwater examples using plants as elodea (not maybe in aquarium but in waste water treatments plant and shrimp/fish farms ). After that I start to analyze both NO2 and NO3 - I have notice that my NO2 levels is around 0.02 mg/L. My refugium is rather small - will see if this can speed up the process. I need to take away my GFO reactor if this should fit my tank. My NO3 concentrations is around 1-4 mg/L (compensated for NO2)

Sincerely Lasse

I hope you have better luck with these than I did! I have 2 in my garage collecting dust, that I could never get to work for more than a few months, they seem to grow chaeto really well for a few months then it all heads down hill. They require a complete and thorough clean every week or so or the light becomes completely obstructed by algae... I also have the ALR2 which I turned into a fantastic recirculating nitrate reactor... I have repurposed all 3 of the light wands from my units and they are all submerged in my sump and growing caulerpa really well....

 

[Lasse]

@Mortie31 Thank´s for the information. I´ll test them with chaeto for a while and if that´s not work I will try to test my idea with a anaerobic filter for photosynthetic non sulphur bacteria

Sincerely Lasse

 

[chema]

I have a very similar experience with algae reactors. I used the one from Pacific Sun, which is a nice reactor, easy to hook up. Chaeto grew more or less well for several weeks, but afterwards the most prominent growing algae were some brown slime and ciano. I had to clean and bleach the reactor each two weeks, but still could no get any consistent growth from chaeto.

Finally I took the reactor off line. Now I use a fluidized reactor with 3 l of Seachem denitrate at low flow to reduce nitrate and a GFO reactor, together with additions of Synechococcus on alternate days, to reduce phosphate. It is working.

 

[Lasse]

I´m aware of the risk of cyano because my normal refugium produce some cyano in the upper layers now and then. What I´m going to test is high flow because I do not want to produce internal zero nutrient zones.

@chema What was your PO4 and NO3 concentrations when cyanobacteria took over?

Both of you - did you run the light 7/24 or reverse time period? Which flow rate?

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Mortie31]

I´m aware of the risk of cyano because my normal refugium produce some cyano in the upper layers now and then. What I´m going to test is high flow because I do not want to produce internal zero nutrient zones.

@chema What was your PO4 and NO3 concentrations when cyanobacteria took over?

Both of you - did you run the light 7/24 or reverse time period? Which flow rate?

Sincerely Lasse

I ran mine reverse time lighting period and if I remember correctly about 2500L/hr. they sold a lot if these in the UK initally, now there Is always a few for sales in the classifieds. With hindsight the one thing I could of done Which may of helped was to dose Fe and Mn. I now measure these and my algae bed uses lots of them 5 and 8ml /day and still zero reading on icp.

 

[Lasse]

New video


Sincerely Lasse