i think we're okay to go here
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i haven't found this angle in a while
so come on
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up right guys so those of you who follow
me you know where i'm at i'm up on the
top
5 gallon
gravity-fed refugium macro algae display
and i wanted to show you what i got
going on i'm going to show you a few
plumbing tips today
as well as update what's going on inside
there's some things i like and there's
some things that i don't like new
viewers this is the 5 gallon
macro refusium gravity fed it feeds down
into my tank
that's the 75 gallon
i use this fluorescent light filter for
my top nothing's going to jump out of it
it's able to hold the 16 h day and let
me show you what i count when i do down
here with it
see uh
you know i cut a hole in it and it shows
down in here and it's nice
if i were just running chado i probably
wouldn't matter what light i chose but
because of the macro algae i wanted some
control so i chose the 16 hd just for
that reason right now i'm running about
20 watts which is
four watts per gallon i have the red and
green at a hundred percent and here's my
schedule
all right here's the inside trying to
show you this without the light and it's
almost impossible
i finally got the flow right
i don't know how many gallons per hour
it is or liters per hour but i can tell
by how much is moving around in the tank
and what's moving that it's the right
amount of flow for me and it's got a
good surface agitation
nothing's settling too much on the
bottom maybe over in this corner
but this side is nice and clear you can
see the coraline that's growing on the
bottom the goal with the flow here was
just to have enough flow for things to
move about and so detritus wouldn't
settle on the bottom a little bit of it
is but that's fine when i originally had
this everything was really stagnant in
here so i didn't like it at all and i
found the balance
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this is just the hose clamp that comes
with the auto aqua light
so i just use that to hold the hose
and this hose is 3 8 inch inside
diameter
so it's not very wide what you'll notice
if you hook up different various sizes
of your hoses
you'll get a different flow rate
so originally i had this
which is half inch inside diameter and i
was getting a tremendous amount of flow
in here
so the actual inside diameter
is restricting the flow
into the tank
so i settled on the synchro 1.0
with this hose and i get the right
amount of flow
so that's what it looks like from the
top
i ordered this ball valve here and you
can do it this way
however sometimes using the ball valve
it puts a strain on your
pump motor and you don't get the length
of life out of your motor however in my
case
this was a cj
1.0
if i get a year out of it that's fine
with me i'd have to get another one
remember questions and comments are
welcome
i noticed this hermit
without a shell i've since added a few
more shells it's alive i'm just hoping
he finds a shell and can get inside it
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one positive thing
is that there's no predators in here
that can eat the hermits or disturb them
so they can really do their job
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i use two astria snails in here and they
do a great job keeping the glass clean
remember i'm keeping all the sides clean
using a razor blade so there's enough
grow out during the two week period that
the asterias have enough to eat
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all right this is what's left of my
calerpa prolifera
initially i had quite a larger strand
and it's difficult sometimes with macros
guys they tend to die off
and you have to start them over so this
has got a good hold and that's a brand
new leaf
so i'm hoping that that will grow
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all right here's the flat branch
gracelaria
this is the red algae i had now if
you'll notice it's got some yellowing
on the tips but yet it's grown very well
the yellowing is due to the higher light
i've since reduced the light and i'm
noticing it too
slowly but surely the red is overtaking
the yellow and eventually it'll come
back to all red i actually kind of like
the two-tone color
that it's taking it's growing rather
fast but it's growing with the yellow
tips and branches
this is the codium tall this is doing
really well now if you saw my video a
few weeks ago it had this filamentatious
algae all over it but since i increased
the flow and added extra hermit crabs
it's done really well almost all the
filamentatious algae is gone and the
tips are light green and then they move
to a dark green i really like the way
this looks
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this is the algae when i first got it
this was a few days after it was put in
some of this has since died off i had
taken it out it's not easy but it can be
done you just have to be patient so all
this algae is over a month old there's
only a few little pieces left
and they're starting to regrow
and we'll see where it heads but you
have to stay with it and go through the
difficult times as well as the good
times
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okay i just hit the
i think we're okay to go here all right
guys
i haven't done this one in a while i
haven't done this one in a while i
haven't done this angle in a while
so come on
come on
i haven't done this hey guys
i haven't done this one in a while come
on up
i haven't
i haven't done this one in a while
come on up
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