This is my first scrubber build. It is installed on a 90 gallon display tank along side a Reef Octopus Extreme 200 with a Bubble Blaster HY3000s pump and a 100 micron filter sock. This tank was purchased used, around six years old. The rocks were saturated with phosphate and have/had quite a deal of hair algae and bubble algae on them. Since acquiring the tank a month ago, I have cleaned it, added a lot of circulation (it's bare bottom until the algae is all gone) added more lights, a DIY ATS, the BB skimmer pump and upgraded a lot of the other equipment and then emptied the contents of my 20 gallon long SPS tank into it. With 50+ species of SPS in the tank, I was very concerned about phosphate levels from the old and neglected rocks killing off my corals. I immediately started running the tank on GFO and began a strict carbon/bacteria dosing regiment. A few days ago I decided to make an ATS to help combat the leaching phosphates and discontinue carbon dosing and GFO. The tank has been running at my house for about a month now. I have gotten tons of coraline algae growth and most of the corals are doing great though a few of my wild-caught acros did not take well to the transfer.
Display as of today:
Polyp extension:
Filtration:
ATS growth in less than four days:
I accidentally left the light on last night and burned up most of the nice green algae I was getting. I'm setting it on a timer tonight.
Livestock:
Copperband butterfly
Kole tang
Blue/green reef chromis
2x Glass cardinals
2x Percula clowns
Mcoskers flasher wrasse
2x Fire shrimp
2x Cleaner shrimp
Brittle starfish