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If acrylic, I think it's fair to say that @Timkatz71 is an expert. Hopefully he'll have something to say considering he polished out a 600+ gallon tank.
Wow! What the oogly boogly is going on? If they're spawning, you're going to have millions of stomatella. I've never seen that before. What's you're ORP doing? I would think that would drive it down???
Sunny, I don't think he'll have close to the needed flow.....a dribble. MAG's are not pressure pumps. I have a MAG 18 in a 55 gallon drum to empty it, and it struggles to go maybe 5 feet or so.
Here's my thoughts.....if you're going to keep the back and side glass clean, black or blue work. However, if you're going to let coraline grow and cover it, I think black would blend in better with the glass being covered. I think blue patches would stick out more. JMTC
I can see it now.....
ACRO by Ralph Lauren
Suggest Googling "MACNA 2016 Dana Riddle" and watch his talk about light, flow and alkalinity.
Best of luck!
Joe, I know you've probably already stated it on other posts, but my pea-brain can't remember.....what BP reactor are you running and how much BP's in there?
I think what I'd try first is reducing the amount of BP's.
I like your thinking. I've kicked around the idea of automating my water changes, but haven't committed because of lack of water supply and waste dumping close by. My interest was solely convenience. Note that you can't maintain alk and calc by water changes alone in an established tank...
Glad to see you've got it figured out. If your interested, the blue beads I purchased off eBay were 453 nm. I paid $20 for 50 beads, and I just looked them up and they're down to $16, free shipping.
If your problem is that the positive and negative leads are contacting the flat stock, I just took an old bead and found that you can bend up the leads. That's a potential fix, if that's your problem.