My Algae Scrubber Experience

[Acipenser]

Interesting read, I hope I never need to do this.

[lastlight]

Forgot to ask but light hits 2 sides of mesh. How is it growing like that on 4 sides?

[reefwars]

haha looks great im building one myself now.what are you using for lights??

[reefme]

I use a 5 gallon bucket type for my 120 gallon.

[jagermaier]

I guess its a refugium for hair algea then.

[pterfloth]

Originally Posted by reefwars

haha looks great im building one myself now.what are you using for lights??

I'm just using standard T8 warm white bulbs.

[mr_alberta]

Looks great. I've always wanted to try the algae scrubber method but just can't seem to cram any more in the space I have. Is the light on 24/7 or reverse photoperiod?

[pterfloth]

Originally Posted by mr_alberta

Looks great. I've always wanted to try the algae scrubber method but just can't seem to cram any more in the space I have. Is the light on 24/7 or reverse photoperiod?

Reverse light period, but on 18 hrs/day vs 12 for the tank lights.

[Edmonton newbie]

looks great i started mine over the christmas holidays, my growth is not that thick yet but i have 0s across the board on my test kits, im running cfls for lights 18h on 6h off. switched out for a second screen cuz i roughed up too high on the first one and was getting the algea growing into the water feed.

[reefwars]

guess i could add this in case anyone doesnt want to go browsing through the algaescrubber forumns its a basic diy for a scrubber im gonna use this and tweak it a bitppp

http://www.livingreefs.com/build-alg...er-t32422.html