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Is it worth the buy with only a 25g tank or will I be fine with sticking the GFO in a mesh bag and have that in a high flow area of the sump?
 

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Is it worth the buy with only a 25g tank or will I be fine with sticking the GFO in a mesh bag and have that in a high flow area of the sump?

100% with second part.
How often do you do a WC?
 
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Once a week. It was about 5g at a time but with the addition of my sump, which is about 7g, 32g in total, I do about a 10g WC. Usually it comes out to only about 8g.
 

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If you do 10 G WC a week you should keep your Phos low, other than maybe to much livestock or the feeding schedule.
You can hang a filter bag in your sump with high flow and see what difference it makes.
Just test before the GFO and every other day there after, you don't want too strip your tank to fast of your Phos.
 
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Alright, I'll do that. My intent in having GFO is because I have GHA. It's been slowly expanding but nothing more than a few strands a weeks. So a slow control burn.

What brand GFO would you suggest?
 

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not to thread jack, but i really want to try one of theses scrubbers.....they just kinda strike me as gimmickey.....
 
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I missed Pete's thread. This is my first of hearing this method but from what I understand it sounds good. However, I would agree with porkchop, it does sound gimmikie.
 

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I had my suspicions as well, as I said in the equipment thread I didn't even think I would bother to begin with. I could never read nitrates and phosphates on any test kit, but there had to be some as I was battling cyano for the longest time. The scrubber definitely seems to be the turning point for me though, if you think about it logically, the algae has to grow on something, and when you're regularly removing it from the scrubber you are physically removing large chunks of nastiness from your water. I would definitely recommend a scrubber, whether it be the one I have, a diy version, or even just a lamp and screen set up in the corner of a sump, growing the algae definitely seems to remove a lot of rubbish from the water

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