Diy Algae Scrubber Light

This light band is utilized the most by chlorophyll during midday when sunlight is the most intense and the b spectrum is for when the light levels are lower like during the morning and evening when the earth s atmosphere reflects or filters out most of.

Diy algae scrubber light. Not only are you now dealing with electricity but unlike diy display lights which are above the tank in a dry air environment that you rarely touch the lighting for an algae scrubber is in a humid or wet environment or even underwater that you touch daily with wet algae dropping on top of it all while possibly standing on a wet floor maybe even with bare feet. Diy led scrubber lighting guidelines and builds. All natural filtration to help you control algae nitrate and phosphate duration. Since led algae scrubbers waste very little if any bandwidth they are in effect double or better the intensity of cfl or t5ho for comparable par output.

Waterfall algae scrubber pictures. Algae on the mesh sucks nutrients out of the water and starves algae growing in the actual tank. Heat sink for led lights. Connecting heat sink by bander clips.

What this means is that you generally only need to run them half as long or 9 hours a day just like the double light cfl t5ho algae scrubber. Algae scrubber diy step 1. The idea is that the hob intake tube pulls water up into the hob box where instead of filter media it is exposed to bright light as it runs across plastic mesh. Old cpu heat sink 4 pieces of binder clips 4 pieces i connected them in such way.

All forms of life need some down time and algae is no exception. The super charged version. They will work best if you have you scrubber lights on for around a maximum of 18 hours. Marine depot aquarium supplies 14 831 views.