That looks like a very good design. I may have to try this on a nano tank I have. I ran an algae scrubber for years and finally had to tear it apart because it worked too well... It produced so much algae that I couldn't keep up cleaning it. My tank looked spotless but the problem I had was my algae scrubber kept overflowing. This was just a design problem and I intend to fix it and get the scrubber back up and running. Good site BTW!
Are the new scrubbers for sale anywhere? Is anybody building algae scrubbers to sell?
Probably another dumb question, but here goes anyway!!!
Is it better to have to much light (led's) and if it burns the algae just cut back on the lighting time rather than make it, and then find you don't have enough light????
Thx
Thx Garf for the earlier reply.
Ok well I have a 120 gallon tank with no filtration at all right now, just a few power heads. I was going to put one of my L1 scrubbers on it for a tester for that. now I'm thinking that I should build the box w/o the bottom drain and try top of tank again with this new design. Since I won't have to deal with massive flow through the box creating microbubbles in the tank I bet it would work much better. Going to be hard keeping that secret if I have someone come over to pick something up and they want to look at my tank.
I also have a couple 10g tanks and could do some FW. might get to it this weekend.
This is great
no slot tube
can't dry out on outage
no need to shut off flow to clean
I could go on
Main question though is related to my scrubber boxes I am building now. This is my prototype L2 without the bottom hole for the bulkhead, which I forgot to drill before bonding.
(Looking back on it, I'm thinking that forgetting this hole was somehow meant to be)
I can't see how there are any implications for me selling this box as a type-I scrubber. Converting this to a type-2 is simple as I previously described. However the second this hits the general public in May I guarantee you I am going to get people wanting one made for the type 2 scrubber (i.e. no bulkhead in bottom, etc). So how do I handle that with all your embodiments etc?
Well this is Technology #1 Embodiment #1. You would just do a $5 diy reseller license for each one you make that uses it.
You can get airstones as large as you want. Here's a 12-incher for $2.99. They make them for ponds that are huge. You can also get bubble tubing that you can shape.
Yes I think the box you described is a generic box, and not a planned embodiment. Would help to see pics though.
No it does not have to be attached; the bubbles just have to rub the screen.
Any size works very similar; cleaning is the main issue.
why do you say that?Originally Posted by SantaMonica
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