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Originally Posted by stuckintexas  lmao 
unfortunately a member of this forum reported it and youtube took it off.  |
Grr, I hate spoilsports that ruin the fun for everyone else.
I actually use the reactor by itself as the only source of filtration in tanks up to 10 gallons, so yeah, I've used it to run CO2 in 2 gallon tanks! a 6.6 gallon should be fine. For anything smaller than 1 gallon you may have to get a small fountain pump and build an external filter - put the filter media in a canister, and then the airstone inline to the pump, and then from the pump back to the tank.
I've stopped trying to build pico tanks but that was my plan.
Now, what I came here to post was that I found out that this also makes a great little way to filter out green water! I have a tank that has had a lot of decomposition in hair grass due to a move which required me to drain the tank and travel several days with it. All the hairgrass leaves died and have been decomposing for 2 months (and still are! but its better now). Lots of ammonia and persistent green water... Well I noticed in another tank that I had replaced the filter media with blue filter foam and then a piece of -upholstery foam-, that the upholstery foam was green when I went to clean it after an ammonia spike! As I rinsed it out under the faucet I marveled at how much green was in the little piece of foam.
I went out, bought another one, stuck it in this 10 gallon tank that had green clouds of algae for the past month and a half, and packed in very tight an oversized piece of upholstery foam. If anyone wants to know this is foam I acquired from an upholstery fabric store as overcut (free!), its open cell urethane foam. The same stuff that comes in filter media, but its much much much finer.
The filter isn't 100% efficient but because it cycles so much water thorough it it is pretty effective. I clean it once a day and have for the past 2 weeks. Every day the filter is dark green and I squeeze out a prodigious amount of green water from it. The tank is now mostly clear but it won't become crystal clear I think until all of the leaves decompose. The filter has started to also become green-brown indicating that its catching less algae and now algae-bacteria.
If your current filter doesn't allow you to hang a bag of zeolite in a tank to drop the ammonia levels then you can still take out the green water by filtering it with this little wunderfilter.
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