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i will try this but it was working very well until i go a lot of life in the scrubber. the size of some of the bristle worms in it is scary!!

I have a diy upflow scrubber in my sump. It was working fine and then stopped.Screen always stayed clean.
There is plenty of nutrients and algae is starting to grow in the DT.
I had a look and it...

It was working ok before and I have not changed the light

Created myself an upflow ALgae scrubber sometime ago and
Used the 3D printed Santa Monica material. My old air stone was getting clogged so bought a new one. Ever since then the algae will o lay...

on that link you said this one was the best:
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My waterfall scrubber has been going a while now. it does ok but nothing great. it uses my down pipe as flow and gets 2500lph over it at least. screen is very rough and is around 7 x 5 inches.
Lit...

I have greatly increased the angle of the scrubber and increased the flow rate over it.

I am still not getting good results. There is a think layer of green algae on the mesh but it gets no more...

Ah....did not realise water had to b running fast.
Is that so it gets more oxygen?

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I have a horizontal style scrubber.Its seems to run Ok but it seems to run far off its potential. Its roughly 4 inches wide and 9 inches long. I have around 300 lph going over it.
Light is a...

just checked CFL box and it is a warm CFL......

Someone is coming to get the chaeto as its no longer needed. It is full of pods but pointless as it wont get any light.

LED's will eventually be...

Finally got around to making my scrubber this week.
I looked at many designs and wanted to keep things simple and quiet.

Below is the result. Acrylic box with one end having an opening. Tilted...

I was thinking of welding the clear pipe to the blue pipe to avoid it blowing off. Maybe even putting in an overflow pipe in the blue elbow so if water backs up it has somewhere to go?
Also would...

I can always cover th tub to make it so no light gets in.

Did not want to mess with home made LED's hence going CFL. Tried to make screen size to compensate for being one sided.


Out of...

Got my Aqua reef 275
Been sorting it out for an algae scrubber. See the pics below.
Got return pipe going into clear cylinder. It will have a slot in it with the mesh hanging down into the square...