Hi all!
I'm new to the site but I've been lurking as a guest for quite some time! I'm also on other forums that SantaMonica posts on so I'm very familiar with algae scrubbers.
I've had my WAS built for roughly 7 months now (EEK)...the only green growth I see is tiny little specks all over the screen. Eventually, this gets covered by what looks to be red turf algae and lots of brown algae. I scrape off everything, only revealing the green specks, and then this gets covered with red turf and brown all over again.
3 x 4 screen with 11 watt spotlight CFL on each side. I've tried all different types of hours and distances from screen. It is cleaned every 7 days. I've tried going 14 days only to see the growth get darker. Lately I have been feeding more to see what results this brings.
I am gathering day by day pictures to show the progress but this has been going on for several months. I was happy with it because SM says that even brown algae filters, just not as effectively. I'd like to reach the max potential of the scrubber as I absolutely love the benefits I'm seeing right now.