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Up until day 3 the screen was growing totally green, then when I checked it that night the outside algae was starting to yellow, probably because there was almost no water running over the outside layer, so I took it out and cleaned it again.
I have been removing all the algae I can around the outside edge of the screen, including the slot area, then going over it with a heavily serrated knife, think bread knife with up to 3/8th serrations in the blade. This is trimming the algae pretty short, but leaving a base layer in place.
Then I scrub and rinse the pipe and false bottom with tap water, clean out any algae in the box and then put it all back together. I have not been rinsing the screen at all.
Sounds good. You might be right about the yellow algae being due to water flow. As the algae mat grows thick, the water passes under it (through the mat) and that results in that algae 'bleaching' a bit. I get some of this on one of my scrubbers but it stays wet enough in the flow so I don't worry about it, unless it turns white it's still alive and growing, just maybe not as well.
6 days and the algae had become overwhelming enough that my scrubber was JUST starting to overflow. I think I only got a couple cups of tank water on the carpet. I cleaned off the screen just like last time and got out my holesaw and a 1.5" bulkhead I had laying around and enlarged the scrubber drain, I will try to post pics tomorrow when I am not on my phone.
Oh cr-p. Well someone has to be the first to have their unit overflow - at least as far as I know. cloged both drains? You must have had a LOT of algae growth dude.
Here is what it looked like, keep in mind I have VERY fine hair algae, not the larger spongy stuff that fluffs out more. So while this may not look like a ton of algae in the scrubber it was packed wall to wall both directions.
Been having an issue with bubble algae too. Not to your extent. I just scrape them off. May get an emerald crab to work on them too. I have one huge bubble that the neighbor kid calls the crystal ball so I leave it alone. Pretty cool looking actually. Looks like your scrubber has great growth.
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