Algae Turf Scrubbers

[Wieselsport]

Is anyone using them?

I've been doing some research after having a good algae outbreak. These seem to be pretty good solution to nitrate and phosphate accumulation. I've never had a GFO reactor. It sounds like I need to get one or the ATS and/ or do multiple waterchanges over time to eliminate the N and P.

Anyways the ATS looks good from the outside just trying to get some more info before getting one going.

 

[Frankie]

Hello Wieselsport,
ATS are not my choice for exportation because honestly, there a mess. They do however, setup properly, work well in localizing algae within a system but do not remove it. It's all up to the manual labor of scraping the screens and exporting that way. You do this anyhow via water changes so why introduce something you are so desperately trying to remove in the first place? N & P = algae outbreaks in your system because of the elevated nutrients.

The best way to remove nutrients from the water is through water changes. Water changes are the one most important function we can provide a reef system.
I recommend weekly water changes in any system a minimum of 10% water volume, up to 50% in high level nutrient systems until lowered and then 10% weekly from there on.

Equipment wise a good skimmer and a bag of GAC in the sump changed out monthly and kneaded daily.
Hope this helps, Frank

 

[BCT182]

If your interested in setting one up, check out this thread:

http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/f12/algae-turf-scrubber-45269/

I'm not sure how its been working for him, as I haven't talked to him in a while, but I saw the setup in person and it was pretty slick!

 

[Wieselsport]

thanks for the link. I went ahead and set one up but it is 3 days old as of today so I'll give it a couple weeks to see what happens

 

[freetareef]

go to algaescrubber dot net
they have a massive amount of examples and ideas =)

 

[Chichas01]

wow, ol' SantaMonica has built himself quit a following over there.

 

[returnofsid]

wow, ol' SantaMonica has built himself quit a following over there.

After spamming many dozens of other forums, and being banned from them, for spamming, he had to eventually land on his feet, somewhere...lol.

 

[freetareef]

someones gotta do it. they work if you use a big enough one.