Sweet link to DIY turf scrubber

[georgelc86]

mine is 6 months old just about

 

[rickytsui]

mine is 6 months old just about

so how low is your po3 and no3 after running this filter and also how much water change do u do now ?

 

[tosiek]

These things work great according to everyone that uses one.

There was a good article on a DIY one that someone posted that did experiments on how much Po4 and No3 it reduced on what type tank and other people chimed in according to how much Sq. Ft. is needed per tank size.

 

[skimmerman100]

is this thing messy with salt crystal all over the place because of the water spatter? seems interesting but at the same time the landlord might evict us if we mess up the walls or floor

 

[knugenx]

is this thing messy with salt crystal all over the place because of the water spatter? seems interesting but at the same time the landlord might evict us if we mess up the walls or floor

Forget about landlord...my wife is going to kill me!

 

[a9reef]

interesting, subscribed

 

[SWITCH420]

its all how u design it and set it up not messy at all def.better then skimmer scum all over eveything i love mine all i know is it works great and i fell it more recreates the real ocean its also proven skimmers remove a lot of good stuff scrubbers dont my 2 cent

 

[georgelc86]

Its messy because of an adjustment I made, not because of the nature of the setup. Plus I never cleaned anything down when I swapped tanks so thats why everything looks like a saltcreep A-bomb went off.

Honestly I have not tested the levels because there has not been consistency with the tank. Also haven't done a water change in about 9 months but had to do one a few weeks ago because I went from my 50 breeder which the scrubber originated from back to the 72 gallon bow. I will say that when I set up the scrubber on the 50 after about 3 weeks when the algae culture started to take hold on the screen my cyano disappeared about 2 weeks later and no hair algae. Now at that time I failed to clean the screen and the cyano and hair came back so for the skimmer guys yeah you can empty a cup compared to cleaning a screen but when you clean your skimmers you have weird corners and stuff. we just have a flat surface. Initially the alternative filtering method has shown me some promise. my corals also seemed to like the ATF also, they just appear to be happier, extention and growth was very noticeable when the ATF got a foot hold in the tank. But I am still not selling my Urchin Skimmer. Wish I had some better results for you guys and hard evidence. Oh, its also very very quiet and it removed a pump from my electric bill.

 

[SWITCH420]

thanks georgelc86 for ur input yea mines been going for about 3 months or so and eveything is fat and happy in my tanks

 

[georgelc86]

Your welcome, I personally like running the ATF, but I tend to try to make my tanks as naturalistic as possible so thats why I went with it. And i thought I could save on electric but then I realized I am removing a pump to add a fuge light. oh well. The only complaint really is that I really havnt had much time recently to test for po and stuff to validate its purpose. the only "proof" was in the beginning but i goofed and didnt clean the screen. I would recommend it to people but I wouldnt say it could replace skimmers all together. I think maybe a perfect setup would be an ATF/skimmer combo where instead of running a super powerful skimmer you can probably throttle back a few models down and how them work with each other. There are just some things that an ATF cant remove such as the "oil slick" on the tank surface. At some point I want to do a refugium/skimmer/atf combo i think that would work really really well.

 

[j900]

Can anyone help me build one pls thanx

 

[SWITCH420]

google it there are many ways to set one up have to find out what will work in ur setup if u want email me send u a link if u want

 

[georgelc86]

These things work great according to everyone that uses one.

There was a good article on a DIY one that someone posted that did experiments on how much Po4 and No3 it reduced on what type tank and other people chimed in according to how much Sq. Ft. is needed per tank size.

Yeah its like 1 gallon of tank you need 100 sq inches of material. so my tank being a 72 which the fuge I need an 11x 11 piece. something like that not sure on the actually conversion. And you need to run both sides not just one. if you want to run one side you have to make that piece 22 x 11 and still use the two lights. Thats the only thing wrong in terms of the traditional ATF setup with all the pics, including mine. my second light blew and havnt gotten a replacement yet. trying to figure out if the current-usa led moduales would be strong enough because then that means I am saturate the screen top to bottom and I would only be using 16 watts total. I have been on a huge electrical audit of my tanks recently.

Oh I also noticed that the ATF runs and does its job much better if you run it traditionally against the DT lighting. I think that was the one thing my research with ATFs didnt do, they all ran them with DT lighting. But different tanks different results I guess.

 

[a9reef]

does anybody sell a version you can buy?

 

[SWITCH420]

not that i know of its mostly a diy it real easy just do a lil research u will find a lot of ways to do it took me about 30 mins to do mine

 

[georgelc86]

one place used to sell them but there was a patent issue so no more, plus they are expensive and if you want to put it like under the stand you would have to get rid of the sump pretty much.

Hey Switch your really making some friends on the other thread huh?

 

[Slamajamajama]

ok ive refurbished with a white mesh and a cf 24w @ 13000 lumens..ill post pics when i see shite

 

[Slamajamajama]

i doubt ill ever shut down my skimmer, but if a bulb, some mesh, and pvc pipe lowers my po4/no3 any less than what it is and w/o using phosban, that works for me

 

[SWITCH420]

lol lots of new friends lol

 

[18oreefer]

Can anyone help me build one pls thanx

Id just like to remind everyone that this thread has a link in the beginning that is chock full of info on how to build and tweek these things. If you dont feel like going back there, here it is again. http://www.myfishtank.net/forum/salt...mover-diy.html While im posting here is the update.

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