Coincidence or Not? TLF Reactors causing Algae?

yellowbellied · 09/29/2011, 11:17 AM

After I put in my TLF 150s (one for carbon, one for phosban), I noticed the tank glass is now covered more in a brown filmy substance. It was never there before the TLFs were installed. Am I doing something wrong here?

Garage1217 · 09/29/2011, 12:37 PM

Did you rinse the phosban?

doctorgori · 09/29/2011, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Garage1217

Did you rinse the phosban?

problem solved I'd wager

....
I've jumped to early conclusions like that myself

yellowbellied · 09/29/2011, 01:00 PM

Oops. Was too excited that all the equipment arrived at once. So what do I do now????

Garage1217 · 09/29/2011, 01:59 PM

Just clean the glass as you normally would and run a separate filter with some filter floss in it. Or take out the GFO and run some floss in the tlf reactor. For floss, just pick up some polyfill pillow stuffing from walmart and use that. May have to clean the glass a few times however while it is removed from the water column.

yellowbellied · 09/29/2011, 02:13 PM

When then, will it be okay to put the GFO (this time, rinsed) back in?

Garage1217 · 09/29/2011, 02:17 PM

As soon as you clean up all the dust the un-rinsed gfo left.

E-A-G-L-E-S · 09/29/2011, 04:49 PM

Polyfill is the cheapest typically. Walmart and places like AC Moore carries it. Different sized bags. I love this stuff!!
My LFS owner actually told me to not buy the filter floss he sold and to go to AC Moore and get much, much more of it for a fraction of the cost.(that's when I became loyal to his store)
I run an hob aquaclear with polyfill in it any time I have a cloud, whether it be from moved rock or sand, unproper/too fast water change, sea hare death, etc.
Especially after I first setup a tank with sand.

yellowbellied · 09/29/2011, 06:10 PM

Do they sell Polyfill at Target? Surprisingly enough, I don't live near a Walmart.

yellowbellied · 10/13/2011, 02:26 PM

here are some pics of my problem. i cleaned this out last week on saturday. and here it is again!

HV1990 · 10/13/2011, 03:35 PM

Normal algea build up. get some snails in there.

yellowbellied · 10/13/2011, 04:04 PM

What type of snails? Turbo? Astrae? etc?

09/29/2011, 11:17 AM	#1
yellowbellied Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 262	Coincidence or Not? TLF Reactors causing Algae? After I put in my TLF 150s (one for carbon, one for phosban), I noticed the tank glass is now covered more in a brown filmy substance. It was never there before the TLFs were installed. Am I doing something wrong here?

09/29/2011, 12:37 PM	#2
Garage1217 GET OFF MY LAWN Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Globally Posts: 5,863	Did you rinse the phosban? __________________ No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness ~ Aristotle If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ~ Albert Einstein I'm just as bent as ever. Hellishly so ~ Captain Jack Sparrow Current Tank Info: Systems and goodies by Lee-Mar / Coralvue / Neptune Systems / Jager / Spectrapure / Cree / Meanwell + more!

09/29/2011, 01:59 PM	#5
Garage1217 GET OFF MY LAWN Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Globally Posts: 5,863	Just clean the glass as you normally would and run a separate filter with some filter floss in it. Or take out the GFO and run some floss in the tlf reactor. For floss, just pick up some polyfill pillow stuffing from walmart and use that. May have to clean the glass a few times however while it is removed from the water column. __________________ No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness ~ Aristotle If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ~ Albert Einstein I'm just as bent as ever. Hellishly so ~ Captain Jack Sparrow Current Tank Info: Systems and goodies by Lee-Mar / Coralvue / Neptune Systems / Jager / Spectrapure / Cree / Meanwell + more!

09/29/2011, 02:17 PM	#7
Garage1217 GET OFF MY LAWN Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Globally Posts: 5,863	As soon as you clean up all the dust the un-rinsed gfo left. __________________ No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness ~ Aristotle If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? ~ Albert Einstein I'm just as bent as ever. Hellishly so ~ Captain Jack Sparrow Current Tank Info: Systems and goodies by Lee-Mar / Coralvue / Neptune Systems / Jager / Spectrapure / Cree / Meanwell + more!

09/29/2011, 04:49 PM	#8
E-A-G-L-E-S Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lehigh Valley, PA Posts: 7,038	Polyfill is the cheapest typically. Walmart and places like AC Moore carries it. Different sized bags. I love this stuff!! My LFS owner actually told me to not buy the filter floss he sold and to go to AC Moore and get much, much more of it for a fraction of the cost.(that's when I became loyal to his store) I run an hob aquaclear with polyfill in it any time I have a cloud, whether it be from moved rock or sand, unproper/too fast water change, sea hare death, etc. Especially after I first setup a tank with sand. __________________ Smug Egotistical Contemptuous It's difficult to get a man to understand something that his salary requires him not to.

09/29/2011, 01:00 PM	#4
yellowbellied Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 262	Oops. Was too excited that all the equipment arrived at once. So what do I do now????

09/29/2011, 02:13 PM	#6
yellowbellied Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 262	When then, will it be okay to put the GFO (this time, rinsed) back in?

09/29/2011, 06:10 PM	#9
yellowbellied Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 262	Do they sell Polyfill at Target? Surprisingly enough, I don't live near a Walmart.

10/13/2011, 03:35 PM	#11
HV1990 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Sacramento CA Posts: 1,964	Normal algea build up. get some snails in there. __________________ 120g AGA Tank, 2 Lumenarc Mini w/ 250w Radiums on select-a-watt ballast 2 t5 actinics. Lighting controlled via Apex Jr controller. Carbon and GFO in TLF reactors, 7 gallon Refugium, Cooling by 8 1 Current Tank Info: 120g Mixed reef tank

10/13/2011, 04:04 PM	#12
yellowbellied Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 262	What type of snails? Turbo? Astrae? etc?

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