My finished scrubber.

[b4tn]

Here is my finished waterfall scrubber. Screen is 4.5" x 8" pump is maxi jet 1200 with a valve to control flow. I also made up a plexi glass screen to control the splash. Once I got a nice straight cut exactly 1/8" wide I was able to get 0 side spray.

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[SantaMonica]

Nice job. Don't forget you can also just use plastic sandwich wrap to cover the screen.

[b4tn]

Here is my screen after about 10 days. After letting it run for a few days here is what I have found. I am not sure if it was coincidence or not but I changed my second light from a 12 watt LED grow light to a 100 watt CFL and turned the flow down as low as it would go. After doing this I had growth almost the next day. I now have a 100 watt CFL on each side for 18 hours with low flow. When growth increases I will increase flow.

Also, i dont like the zip ties. They are wide enough that no matter how tight or loose I feel like they disrupt the flow and cause spraying and or dripping. I am going to look into another way of securing the screen. Maybe some thinner zip ties.

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[SantaMonica]

It's probably only the light that made the difference.

Cut a few squares out of the screen to make room for the ties.

[Neurovet]

Noob question...how do you block to PVC so that the water is only flowing towards the slotted pipe and not down into the PVC stand?

[SantaMonica]

Welcome.

The other end of the pipe is either closed, or also connected to the pump. So the only way out is the slot.

[Nht]

I'd like to build a simple ATS such as this. Do you have a step by step tutorial and parts used for this build? I'm not much of a diyer but I think this I can probably do. Lol

[SantaMonica]

Welcome.

This might help:
http://algaescrubber.net/forums/showthread.php?1291-Algae-Scrubber-Basics-The-Summary

And this:
http://algaescrubber.net/forums/showthread.php?1958-Updated-sizing-guideline-for-scrubbers

[atoll]

Here is my screen after about 10 days. After letting it run for a few days here is what I have found. I am not sure if it was coincidence or not but I changed my second light from a 12 watt LED grow light to a 100 watt CFL and turned the flow down as low as it would go. After doing this I had growth almost the next day. I now have a 100 watt CFL on each side for 18 hours with low flow. When growth increases I will increase flow.

Also, i dont like the zip ties. They are wide enough that no matter how tight or loose I feel like they disrupt the flow and cause spraying and or dripping. I am going to look into another way of securing the screen. Maybe some thinner zip ties.

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/10/3279d37d69972ad1845da15129b0e922.jpg

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/11/10/c6d360c92a679f070f5a9d88cfca22e4.jpg

You may have cured the problem with the zip ties however if you put them through holes lower down the screen and obviously didn't pull them tight I recon the water would run down better with less or no spray.