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This new install of a RAIN4 in a saltwater sump, with the LED light dome lid removed, shows:
o Good flow of water across the whole bottom of the screen; less is ok but the whole bottom of the screen should have water flowing off of it.
o The black tray is level with the sump waterline; this eliminates all sound when the dome lid in put back on. The tray can be lowered even further so the screen is below the waterline, so that the water does not fall off the screen and instead flows smoothly downwards.
o The screen can be slid forward (after removing the red cap) and out of the sump with the water still flowing, and without disassembling anything.
o Growth can be seen easily, and hand-removed easily, without disassembling anything.
o The black tray can be easily lifted up off the pole mount and taken to a sink for brushing.
o If power goes out for a few days, the black tray can be lifted up and set down in the water, to keep the algae alive for over a week.
Happy Scrubbing :)
Deep red light, also known as ruby red or 660nm red, mixed with upflowing bubbles that rub rocky Green Grabber® textures, is what grows the algae in this DROP1.2x scrubber®
Algae for filtration, and our different models
RAIN4 filling in
RAIN4 mega growth
Some aquarium people only have one hand or arm to do things. So, the RAIN waterfall scrubber lets you do viewing, screen removal, and tray removal with just the one.
Super high flow coming off the bottom of the Green Grabber® screen on the RAIN2 (tm) waterfall algae scrubber (the lights have been removed here). It's ready to grow algae :)
Since the lights (not visible here) are submersible waterproof, you can put the RAIN2 as low as you need to in your sump. In this vid, the tray is slightly under the waterline.
No it's not a mirror. It's a black epoxy one-piece finish on top of the internal heat seak of the LEDs in the SURF4x light, and two of these for the SURF8x.
The same finish is now also being used on the SURF2 and 2x and 2xx.
The great thing about a scrubber is that it grows exactly what many fish eat naturally. Even fish that you think would not eat algae, such as cichlids, will do so if the growth is living. But many freshwater and saltwater fish and other animals love it.
It's similar to a garden, where you eat the growth, then compost the waste which grows new growth so you can buy less food. Same with algae scrubbers in aquariums; the more you feed from your scrubber, and the less food you add from the outside, the lower the nitrate and phosphate will be in the water.
Some people think that if you don't remove the scrubber growth and throw it away, you won't remove nutrients from the water and the nitrate and phosphate will increase. But the answer is to add less food from the outside, and replace it with the fresh living growth from the scrubber. Nutrients will flow from the fish to the scrubber and back to the fish, and the fish will use those nutrients to grow bigger, which takes those nutrients out of the water. And since you are adding less food (nutrients) from the outside, the nutrients (nitrate and phosphate) in the water goes down to a lower overall level.
How to feed the scrubber growth to your fish? Well with any model, you can remove the growth with your hand if the growth is green hair algae; then you can put the growth in the water or use a feeding clip. If you have a HOG or DROP model, you can put the whole thing in for the fish to eat from it. If you have a waterfall such as a RAIN model, you can put the screen into the water, or you can remove the growth from the screen first.
Don't buy fish food. Don't replace filters. Instead, use your filter to feed your fish. MaramotReef on IG shows how it's done:
o The living, green growth can be put right into a fish feeder.
o The black tray is level with the sump waterline; this eliminates all sound when the dome lid in put back on. The tray can be lowered even further so the screen is below the waterline, so that the water does not fall off the screen and instead flows smoothly downwards.
o The screen can be slid forward (after removing the red cap) and out of the sump with the water still flowing, and without disassembling anything.
o Growth can be seen easily, and hand-removed easily, without disassembling anything.
o The black tray can be easily lifted up off the pole mount and taken to a sink for brushing.
o If power goes out for a few days, the black tray can be lifted up and set down in the water, to keep the algae alive for over a week.
Happy Scrubbing :)
A full screen of light-green Cladophora species growth on a RAIN4 (tm) waterfall algae scrubber. Note the bottom of the tray is at the waterline, making it silent, while still allowing space below the tray to put things. There is good flow, but it is not very visible because it's inside the growth.
The RAIN4 is available here:
http://www.Santa-Monica.cc/product.asp?itemid=90
Other RAIN4 videos:
https://youtu.be/mlg0L_nmXPc
https://youtu.be/r5B2bGBtA2s
https://youtu.be/T8WgRwzs3W4
https://youtu.be/_HacgCB2LlM
https://youtu.be/4m82K7Mpp3s
Algae scrubbers, otherwise known as "chaeto killers" because of the high filtering capacity compared to chaeto reactors, have the fastest and strongest rate of removal of nutrients from aquarium water of any type of natural algal filtration. All natural reefs, lakes and rivers are naturally filtered by algae.
The RAIN2 is the smaller RAIN, available with 1, 2 or 4 of our GEM5 (tm) lights.
The RAIN (tm) waterfall algae scrubber is the first new design from anyone anywhere since we introduced the first waterfall design in the year 2008. Back then it was simply designed to fit under the tank that we had at the time. It took a lot of time to remove and clean, and had other issues, but it was not for sale so it did not matter.
Since then all waterfall designs for sale by anyone have copied that design. That original design was ok at the time (you can find it posted on forums by searching "waterfall turf algae filter cheap and easy to build santamonica forum"
Well, now it is 2022 and almost all the shortcomings of that original waterfall design have been overcome with our new patented (10,655,095) RAIN designs. From the Green Grabber® 3D printed screen, to the underwater submersible and safe low-voltage (but high wattage) UL listed GEM5® lights, to the pole mount super low space requirement mounting system, we really hope you like the RAIN models.
More RAIN videos:
RAIN one-handed screen removal and replacement (47 seconds)
https://youtu.be/zbgbCCpiJGc
RAIN2 with one GEM5 light, first scraping:
https://youtu.be/I5mG_uid4Ms
RAIN tray:
https://youtu.be/zVa650-QPTM
RAIN2 water pipe and screen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zHgcsxi7U
RAIN2 dome lid cover and lights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba5Hy9gr4FI
RAIN2 mounting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83_loN1d-Ng
RAIN2 unboxing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ2itYGFFUo
RAIN2 first view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo0kOIns0GE
Free, fresh, and does not add nitrate or phosphate to the water like normal feeding does.
RAIN2 waterfall scrubber, first eight weeks in newly cycled saltwater tank.
Note that this particular one is mounted on a 1 inch vertical pipe in the sump, which uses the included 1 inch adapter to fit up into the bottom of the RAIN2 tray (this is not the same as the optional 2 inch pole mount)
The black case blocks all red light. And red light is used because it grows the most.
The RAIN2 is available here:
http://www.Santa-Monica.cc/product.asp?itemid=87
Algae scrubbers, otherwise known as "chaeto killers" because of the high filtering capacity compared to chaeto reactors, have the fastest and strongest rate of removal of nutrients from aquarium water of any type of natural algal filtration. All natural reefs, lakes and rivers are naturally filtered by algae.
The RAIN2 is the smaller RAIN, available with 1, 2 or 4 of our GEM5 (tm) lights.
The RAIN (tm) waterfall algae scrubber is the first new design from anyone anywhere since we introduced the first waterfall design in the year 2008. Back then it was simply designed to fit under the tank that we had at the time. It took a lot of time to remove and clean, and had other issues, but it was not for sale so it did not matter.
Since then all waterfall designs for sale by anyone have copied that design. That original design was ok at the time (you can find it posted on forums by searching "waterfall turf algae filter cheap and easy to build santamonica forum"
Well, now it is 2021 and almost all the shortcomings of that original waterfall design have been overcome with our new patented (10,655,095) RAIN designs. From the Green Grabber® 3D printed screen, to the underwater submersible and safe low-voltage (but high wattage) UL listed GEM5® lights, to the optional pole mount super low space requirement mounting system, we really hope you like the RAIN2.
More info, instructions, and purchases are available at:
https://www.santa-monica.cc
This guideline covers sizing:
https://www.santa-monica.cc/Which-one_p_63.html
Note: Freshwater is better without strings, as on our HOG2 and HOG2x, or for smaller tanks, the HOG.5 and HOG1 and HOG1x. Larger HOG models have strings and are better for saltwater. All models however can be used in saltwater.
Related videos:
HOG3 unboxing and installation with shade cloth:
http://youtu.be/aGFhFtpEuR8
HOG1.3 from new to green, in 3 cleanings:
http://youtu.be/utu2SADmj2g
HOG1.3 and HOG2 and HOG3 comparison:
http://youtu.be/CQ6GLnL-Ecs
Other algae scrubbers:
DROP1.4 installed on a saltwater pond:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGxK28lUq4I
SURF4:
http://youtu.be/fLTtOQUzmxY
SURF2:
http://youtu.be/miWb4R8ajXw
Customer's hand-harvesting of a DROP1.4 scrubber after it has been growing a while. You can't always hand-harvest, but it's neat when you can. And of course, some of the growth could be fed right back to the tank.
Natural feeding and filtering devices for freshwater and saltwater aquariums
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