Ok I'm gonna build a turf scrubber

[Mattl22]

So I just spent the last few hours checking out diy turf scrubbers on the net and I'm gonna give one a shot. Anybody here make one and having success with it. The idea seem simple


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[MIKE NY]

I think Tobin (Bob1000) was running one for awhile. I remember we talked about it for my tank's filtration system...

 

[Keith P]

Give it a try. I would if I had the room.

Next tank for me

 

[gimincorp]

Yes Mattl22
I made one and I think I'm making success with it.
Not sure if its a proper turf scrubber though.
But I had it installed in the back of my 14 gallon biocube and after a few months running it, my GHA problem got solved.
I just can't find the posts on it, but the idea was to put the light behind the middle compartment of my tank, then install a plastic mesh screen in the mid chamber and expose it to light on a timer basis. Then I just let the time and GHA do its thing. I don't harvest much GHA from there, but I like that its gone from my display part of the tank!

 

[Mattl22]

I'm gonna keep it real simple already have a light and thinking im gonna just use the return from my reactors to flow water through a pice of PVC with a slit in it for the water to fall over a mesh screen
Still goona run my protein skimmer


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[Reeftanker3295]

I love this algae scrubber build, and it looks like it worked really well.
http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/f...ith-pics-139595.html?highlight=algae+scrubber

 

[Dre]

Macroalgae does the same thing and it grows faster just a though.

 

[18oreefer]

I built mine and i love it. Once every 2 weeks i scrape a softball size glob of hair algae off of it. It has def helped me out in the po4 department. Here is a link to an old thread i posted, good luck, you will love it. http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/general-discussion/69002-sweet-link-diy-turf-scrubber.html

 

[ECFENCING]

link doesn't work...

 

[Imbarrie]

I don't get it, why not just have a fuge and grow macro?


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[tosiek]

Your able to grow the algae quicker the way turf scrubbers work. I don't know the technical side behind it but thats the gist of it.

Turf scrubbers, made properly and maintained, work very very well. But it adds alot of extra work to the tank.

I don't get it, why not just have a fuge and grow macro?


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[Imbarrie]

That type of algae does grow quicker.
Just seems to ands fire hazard and high maintenance for little result.
Also, aren't we striving for water conditions that don't allow those kinds of algae to grow?


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[KathyC]

Here is the correct link:
http://www.myfishtank.net/forum/sal...a-powerful-nitrate-phosphate-remover-diy.html

 

[KathyC]

I don't get it, why not just have a fuge and grow macro?


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A turf scrubber can be a handy addition when someone doesn't have the space for a fuge - for whatever reason - or when they need additional help fixing a tank with long term algae issues.

 

[Mattl22]

What type of screen should I get proably going to homedepo


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[Bob 1000]

I think Tobin (Bob1000) was running one for awhile. I remember we talked about it for my tank's filtration system...

Never ran one on my system. But I set a couple up, they do require a lot of maintenance.. I think a fuge 3/4 the size of your display works way better...

 

[tosiek]

3/4 the display is more than what most people have in their complete sump area. For smaller tanks its possible and worth it, and alot of people do have a 1/2-3/4 fuge are for small tanks but once your in the 90-300g range that is alot of area to house a fuge.

That type of algae does grow quicker.
Just seems to ands fire hazard and high maintenance for little result.
Also, aren't we striving for water conditions that don't allow those kinds of algae to grow?


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Its the same fire hazard as running a fuge light and the end result is quite impressive.

These things work and remove alot of stuff out of your tank for what they are worth.

Alot of people haven't mastered controlling their waste or just have a well stocked and well fed fish tank which is for the most part everyones goal. And unless your keeping a barebottom, fishless tank and doing daily water changes you will have some nitrates and Po4 in your tank. Its impossible to have a bio load and not have Po4. And that little Po4 in your tank will create algae if the conditions are right for it to grow. The only reason you don't see algae in alot of peoples low nutrient low Po4 tanks is that its not the perfect place to grow in the display. People are just utilizing the appetite of algae and super growing it in the right conditions to their benefit.

Put a turf scrubber in the cleanest SPS tank and you will see algae growing on the mesh. I can put money on it.

 

[Mattl22]

Toseik do u run a turf scrubber ?
If so was it diy
What kind of screen works best going to home depot tomorrow?


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[waynotcars]

This thread ended abruptly in August 2010. Wondering if the ats was ever built and what , if any, results did it produce for you??

 

[Mattl22]

Of course it was not ! Lol I did go to home depot that day and bought some stuff but after it was all said and done I just did not have the room my sump is small 20 gal I had a simple diy scrubber running using mesh pond lining a power head and a lsoda bottel cut so the water ran down over the screen back into the sump and it did grow alage but it looked like crap and I decided to grow mcro a dose vodka if I had the room I would like to try something like Paul b alge trough