Algae scrubber experience?

[Doug]

I had a real turf scrubber back a few years ago on my larger tanks, built by Inland Aquatics. It worked well for me but required skimming and carbon also. I will find a pic of it, should be on here somewhere. For sure never had any phosphate or nitrates.

But apparently according to a certain someone, us old timers were stupid and doing it all wrong...LOLOL. So I left it at that.

Turf scrubbing does work though, in any style you do it. But absolutely would I run a skimmer with it and carbon to remove any tinting of the water from algae spores.