My Santa Monica - Algae Acrylic Scrubber 100

[michalm]

OK

[michalm]

Well...

I gave up... after 6 months it is not make sense to testing more time... This is something with my water, silicate problem, and I can't remove it from my tank.

Thanks for everyone... for helping !!!

Mike

[michalm]

Hi,

Santa you can close this thread

Thank you very much !

[SantaMonica]

Thanks for trying.

[Floridays]

You can't give up. It appears that your scrubbers has finally started like it was supposed to.

Come on Keep Trying You will get it.


REMEMBER THIS IS A HOBBY
WE ALL DO THIS FOR FUN AND EXPERIENCE

[misoldier06]

mmmaaannnn i set here for an hour got to the climax and was let down.... dang it... well i hope all goes well with his future aquarium endeavors.

[kerry]

I know this is a very old thread but, I will post anyway just because I read through the whole thing to not find out what the solution was!!! I read this because I am going to build a scrubber for my 150G FW tank because the scrubbers on my three SW tanks are the best thing I have ever done for them thanks to SANTA MONICA!!!!!!! I think he was very close to a solution for his problem. I also think changing tank water over twice (200%) a week was to much and removing nutrients and the algae needed. Then he switched to RO/DI which now removes the minerals like iron from the water further hindered the algae growth. I use and 200GPD RO/DI set-up for my place but I pull my FW water before the RO filter stage. By doing this I am only using the first three mechanical filters to remove partials and Chemicals (like chlorine and chloramine ect.) so this way I do not have to add any treatment garbage to my FW. It still retains most of the minerals though. You use the full filtering for SW because the salt mix has all the minerals thats need to be put back into the water to make it suitable. I do not have minerals to dose back into my FW so I bypass the last stages. This method works for my FW!
Any way, I wonder if the silica would have been used up if he would have stop doing such large qty's of water changes and switched to a food low or without silica? It seems it would be like fuel and start to run out eventually. He sure has a strange situation thats for sure!
Has anyone had any experience or pointers for a FW scrubber? I am planning on starting a build this weekend if I have time. I think its pretty straight forward but, if anyone has advice about the FW scrubbers I would sure appreciate being able to avoid any pitfalls.

[SantaMonica]

His was the only scrubber problem that was never figured out. Algae grew, but it was diatoms which washed off. Could not figure out where the silicone was coming from.

Start a new thread about FW feedback.

[kerry]

Its for sure a strange situation. Also, I am the same person as Kc Mopar on the MyFishTank site. I have posted on the Scrubber page there and have gotten answers to my question by you. Thank you for that Sir!!!!

[michalm]

WOW ! Thank you for refresh this thread

Yep, for now, I quiet with Scrubber. I sold everything via this website
But, when I'll move to new house (for 2 year) I'm planing tank that will have 750gal and in 100% I will start Scrubber again

Now my two tanks look that:
Tank one - 2 Black Arowana; Tank two - 5 Stingrays True Hystrix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjOlDKroH4w

My new DIY tank and Sump (I am proud) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-AfIZgWCw

My final project about Automatic Water Exchange (sorry, it is by polish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvS25hKQVA
Now, I remove Ro/Di system. Water was to "clean" - pure water. I use only two stage standard filtration. So far so good.

I still have problem with Nitrate (NO3) and Algae ;(((... I don't check Silicate...