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there was some great improvement on the
bacterial bloom the first two to three
days then i didn't notice any
improvement
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all right here it is all right you guys
know i'm not one for unboxings
and it comes with the lamp
now this looks like the lamp cover which
is a good idea to have
uh
you know that way stuff doesn't grow on
the lamp itself
so the lamp will go inside of this
this is why i don't like unboxings
all right so see
that's watertight
and
here's the lamp that's going to go down
inside
so
uh yeah that might be pretty cool let's
see what happens all right
this morning when i took the uv
sterilizer off
i noticed the bulb was burnt out
so
now we're going to work this review in
reverse as you can see there it came
with a filter sponge and my guess was
this the filter sponge clogged after
about three days
and the flow through the uv unit got too
slow
and created too much heat inside
so my guess was it heated up too much
and the bowl burnt out they have
replacement bulbs on amazon so i feel i
have to give it one more try
without the filter sponge inside maybe
i'll try it on the 20 gallon
if i can get the bulb to work
i would recommend using it maybe two or
three days to get rid of an algae bloom
or a bacterial bloom for a 10 to 30
gallon tank but i would not consider
running this on a regular basis all
right so it's obviously
too big for a 10 gallon to keep in there
permanently
it's just in there to see if it'll get
rid of the
bacterial bloom
alright so i haven't turned it on yet
the suction cups fell off
so
you know
you get what you paid for
if the lamp works and it gets rid of my
bacteria bloom i'll be happy some micro
bubbles when you first turn it on
it's not too strong which is a good
thing see there's the micro bubbles
it's not too strong i've turned off my
high greninia to be too much in there
too much flow
it's 135 gallons per hour which is not
much
so let's see what this does
there it is really quiet i will say that
can't hear a thing it's silent
that's one thing i can give a positive
feedback on
but there it is let's see what it looks
like this is two days later this is when
it was looking its best and you can
really notice that it's cleared up
my guess is this is right around when
the lamp burnt out
because this was the best it looked
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i've never kept a tuxedo urchin before
so i'm going on a few reviews from some
viewers who told me they do a great job
in the tank on the algae
so i picked up the red tuxedo urchin
from
reefcleaners.org it went in well it's
doing well
and i thought what i would do is put
this in for a few days before i add the
live rock as i said last week and it is
moving around very slow
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i also went ahead and removed that large
clump of bryopsis that was on that rock
so i'm going to see what the urchin will
do and then i'm going to add the live
rock along with this rock into the tank
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remember guys questions and comments are
always welcome i'm hoping by adding the
live rock that will see a large
difference this week remember last week
i spoke about surface area and bacteria
now the 10 gallon will have tons of
surface area as it settles in it'll
start to really clear up
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what i did here is cut out a black piece
of construction paper it's heavy weight
and this is the footprint of the 10
gallon you can see it lines up with the
space that i'm going to add the live
rock to and obviously the height
i'll just lay it next to it so i'm going
to arrange those pieces on here to see
what they look like before i put them
into the tank
obviously the first thing i have to do
is remove some of the water
because it'll overflow when i put the
rock in
what i want to avoid here is cementing
the rocks this time and i want to add
this piece and maybe the other one to it
if there's too many i might take this
small piece out or we'll see so let's go
get the rock taking these rocks out
they're in
so like i said i don't want to use any
what i did is i put this down
so it wouldn't get the table all soaking
wet but it's enough so if i do this
and
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i'm trying to arrange these guys you
want to arrange them this is the
exterior now so i want to leave a lot of
flow space around it
this one's a little wobbly
if i do this
that's a flat surface there that might
work nice
i like that because it's creating a flat
surface
across the top here for coral so here's
a side view
so you can see it's going to have a lot
of space above it so i'll put that other
rock
that's in the tank on top of these
all right
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putting in a little bit of the bubble
algae don't forget i had a bubble algae
issue in this tank
sometimes algae issues never go away
guys i hate to say it
but you just gotta deal with them and
keep your tank clean do a lot of manual
removal at times
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i don't like to shock my live rock when
it's just come out of the
cycling period like that or just seeding
period
so this is at 35
all the way across
ai soul
35
blues
35
cool white
and this is like five minutes after i
put the rock in so we'll see if it
clears up now
there it is
that's nice
so the 10 gallon
back in business
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