400 gallons of saltwater running through my house.

[DevonM]

your scrubber is taking a lot longer to get established than I thought it was supposed to? maybe your nutrients are low? thanks for the great updates, I really like the short videos. your pipe fish are really cool, do they swim together all the time?

I too think the scrubber is taking longer than expected to get established. One of the people at Santa Monica Filtration emailed me last night (out of the blue after reading my blog posts) and suggested I continue to use the black cloth included with the SURF2 to cover the LEDs. The thought is that the LEDs are too bright to start off with but okay once the algae starts growing. I think I'm to the point though that it shouldn't need the black cloth as the algae seems to be established in the box.

The pipe fish are very cool and do interact well with the other tank mates. I am however down to only one. I don't think a few of them transitioned well.

 

[DevonM]

SURF2 Algae Scrubber Update - Day 54 (~8 weeks)

 

[sarmo]

another cool video, the display is looking good. that algae grower is taking it's time....

 

[LostCreekReefer]

Looking good Devon. Yeah the scrubber is taking it's time for sure.

 

[DevonM]

 

[CarlaW]

So what would be your own personal 10 week assessment of this?

 

[DevonM]

So what would be your own personal 10 week assessment of this?

It's taking much longer to see growth than I thought it would. Each week keeps getting better though. What's that saying...??? Good things come to those who wait!... I hope. :couch2:

 

[DevonM]

 

[CarlaW]

You still have a refugium don't you, for the life of me I cannot remember

 

[DevonM]

You still have a refugium don't you, for the life of me I cannot remember

I do and the SURF2 sits in it. All will level out soon.

 

[CarlaW]

Are they competing against one another?

 

[DevonM]

For sure. It's a competition to see who's the most efficient at consuming nutrients...

I was wondering why I wasn't getting anyone's replies from Reeffrontiers. Guess Google decided to make it, and other emails, spam this month.

 

[CarlaW]

I have noticed that also Devon, at least I get a chance to look at my spam folder...................LOL.
Yeah, I updated some pics on my tank too.
Is there any algae left in your display, that is really the important thing here!!!

 

[DevonM]

Yep, still working through some algae in the display tank. My rocks are providing an adequate source of nutrients for the hair algae to grow off them.

 

[DevonM]

Wow has life been busy. I'm hoping the fall will slow it up a bit!

Last week the power company hit our power line while digging and the power was down for an hour and a half. They are making some upgrades to our block and said there would be a couple scheduled outages coming and that they would call us and let us know when to expect downtime. So, they called and said this Tuesday to plan on the power being out for 4 hours. Haven't slept well since the phone call... Anyway, we didn't have a generator until this weekend but now I feel somewhat prepared for the outage and others down the road. Reading over many threads I've come to the conclusion that I'm only going to run my return pumps during the outage and not my Apex controller. Too many stories out there about weird things happening to controllers. I am however going to purchase a transfer switch soon so that I can feed power to my house and clean up the voltage a bit, then I won't have any issues running the entire system.

What's the longest anyone has gone without power? How did your tank fare?

 

[LostCreekReefer]

Hi Devon- we had a 9 hour power outage in May of 2013 (post #281 in my thread). I got my generator out, fired that sucker up and hooked up one return pump, one skimmer pump, the Tunze controller and all 4 Turbenelle pumps hooked to it and my 3 heaters. The tank did not react at all, normal day in the ocean for the fish, corals and, of course, the algae. I could see no difference at all.

 

[CarlaW]

I have been out for 5 hours at the most. Ran my skimmer, refugium, return pumps, DSL modem and TV, and was like.................. the power was out?

 

[DevonM]

Well we will see how it goes! The power is still on for the time being. Also, I still seem to be missing reply emails from this forum. :-/ Not sure what's going on there, better check the spam folder again...

 

[CarlaW]

All of my emails are going to the spam folder Devon, must be "new and improved" huh?

 

[DevonM]

All of my emails are going to the spam folder Devon, must be "new and improved" huh?

Lol, I just saved them as not spam again. We will see how long that lasts. I called to power company and they are putting outage off until later in the week, oh joy.