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Vegan lasagna? Avocado dip? Spinach soufflé?

Example of good amount of water flow coming off the Green Grabber® screen on a RAIN2 scrubber® waterfall. Flow this strong is not essential, but you do want the water flowing off of the whole screen from end to end.

Customer's Green Grabber® screen from a RAIN2 waterfall scrubber in saltwater. The closeup shows the Rough 3D (tm) printed 2mm thick screen (rough on both sides) that comes with the RAIN2. You can see the tiny threads that go inside the screen holes; these help hold on to growth, especially...

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Metal cans are OK for freshwater and fish-only saltwater systems, and they block all light from escaping, so this customer made a nice DIY waterfall scrubber with 4 of the GEM5 lights in a can, and a mirror on the lid to reflect light back down.

Anyone want to guess what you can add to the water to get the yellow growth to grow darker?

The new SLIP.7 for nano back compartments. It can be operated in these combinations: Waterfall algae scrubber for up to 0.7 frozen cubes of food a day. - Fed from top water tubing - Fed from bottom water tubing - Fed from display overflow into back compartment Chaeto reactor for...

I mean, the Cladophora sp. is attaching to the clear acrylic surface...

Many people with larger tanks want a single, larger size algae scrubber. Probably because it seems simpler. And it certainly is cheaper. But when the focus is more filtering (not more pods), it's better to have two or more smaller scrubbers instead of one larger one. This is because scrubbers...

Epoxy sealed magnets now come on our HOG1.3 and HOG2 and HOG2x and HOG3 models; They can also be purchased separately to DIY your own scrubber: https://www.santa-monica.cc/Magnets_p_59.html

Customer's DROP.6 single-LED upflow in saltwater, with big dark growth ring. The open space in the ring allows water to get to it, to prevent die-off of the thick dark growth. This allows growth to go a few days longer before harvesting. However, it is already time to harvest this one.

Time for a neat contest: The person who can guess what new aquarium product this is (and even better, what it does) wins the first one Serial Number 0001 Actually the first one will be a rough DIY version, to get feedback from people running it in different systems, but it still should work...

When figuring out what materials to use for an algae scrubber, don't neglect considering strings... sometimes they can hold on to the most growth, because they are narrow and light can get to all sides of them.

Contest Best Scary Face Wins a $250 RAIN2 Algae Scrubber with two GEM5 lights Our example is on the left. Use the right one to make your own scary face, then post it. Winner picked on Halloween

Natural filtering in a small sump space...

1 year warranty now on all Santa Monica Filtration products, for the original purchaser. Owner's manuals and description pages may not be up to date with this however.