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Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae


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  1. #41
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    Some success stories of upflow scrubbers that people built...

    ReeferMat on the MASC site: "So I decided to build one of these [upflow scrubbers] today. It's huge because all I had was a 12 inch airstone, but I'm hoping that won't matter too much. It cost me less than $20 to build, so if it works that is the best bang for the buck I have ever seen in the war on algae! It has been up and running for 3 months now and I have to say my tank looks a lot better. Every time I clean it it grows a new type of algae, slime, turf, etc... and it grows fast. I would say I have seen a decline in nuisance algae in my tank, but to be honest that would be an understatement.... It has all but eradicated it. Every time I look at the scrubber I can't help but think that all that junk would be growing in my DT"

    Owenreefin on the PNWMAS site: "The first two months of running this scrubber thing I was convinced I was going to rip it out for the algae growth was dismal, and I figured that my system just couldn't make it work. (I also have algae in my fuge) WELL I WAS WRONG. The thing started to really kick in. So much so that I just conducted my only water change in 2 months and I hardly think it was even necessary. I usually do a change of 30% every 2 weeks. My sand bed has cleared up big time too. With the water change I pulled out a good baseball sized amount of algae off the scrubber, couldn't be happier! I will always be running one of these. I will post pics of its growth next time I change water. Many months from now"

    Bobba on the scrubber site: "Well, it's been almost 3 weeks with the [upflow scrubber], and 2 with my lone Turbo snail. I am happy to report that I have no Hair Algae left in the tank. No signs of any regrowth of what the snail has eaten either."

    Clavius on the scrubber site:

    "I've been running a 500 liter tank now for 5 years. It is very well stocked with SPS, LPS, softies, filter feeders and a modest amount of fish. The nutrients were being kept very low by a combination of a giant skimmer and the ZEOvit method. Off course, this results in very lightly coloured corals, which was my goal. Generally I'm very pleased with the colouring and growth of my corals, and please with my tank in general. But one battle I've always lost: brown algae covering my sandbed. I could not, for the life of me, find what was causing those algae. Not to mention solve it. I've tried many many things to solve it, but up untill recently, without luck.

    Almost three weeks ago though, I installed a [upflow scrubber]. It was a little experiment that I wanted to do ever since I learned about algae scrubbers. Of course, with the ZEO-method, my nutrients already were really very low. I couldn't measure any NO3 or PO4 with my Salifert test kits. And I never bothered with more expensive kits; unmeasurable should be good enough. I wanted to see if the vitamins and amino acids that the algae scrubber produces would add anything to my reef. And, more importantly, if the algae would consume "something" that the brown algae on my sandbed require.

    The result in my sandbed is staggering. After only 3 weeks, not a trace of the pesky brown algae is left! An extra benefit, that I didn't expect, is that my lightly coloured corals now all have noticably much more colour. Without getting darker. They seem to glow! I don't know if it is from the vitamins that are released in the water [from the algae scrubber]. Or maybe the ugly brown algae [on the sand] were also covering my corals and that I now finally seeing my uncovered corals! Strangely enough, the algae in my [scrubber] aren't light green, as you would expect with nutrient-poor tanks. But they're a mix of dark brown with red tints here and there. So, I have no idea why that is or how that works. But at this stage I'm just so happy that I really don't care."

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    Some more UAS upflow algae scrubber (tm) examples...

    "Joey2525" on the CMF site...
    UasJoey2525OnCMF 4 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasJoey2525OnCMF 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasJoey2525OnCMF 2 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasJoey2525OnCMF 3 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Alexleblanc" on the scrubber site...
    UasAlexleblancOnAS 2 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasAlexleblancOnAS 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasAlexleblancOnAS 4 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasAlexleblancOnAS 5 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Disney" on the PH841 site...
    UasDisneyOnPh84 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasDisneyOnPh84 2 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae



    "Cdm2012" on the scrubber site...
    UasCdm2012onAS 3 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasCdm2012onAS 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasCdm2012onAS 2 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Bicyclebill" on the PNWMAS site
    UasBicyclebillOnPNWMAS 3 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasBicyclebillOnPNWMAS 2 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasBicyclebillOnPNWMAS 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Mbonus" on the scrubber site...
    UasMbonusOnAS 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "UasIslakkie" on the UR site...
    UasIslakkieOnUR 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasIslakkieOnUR 2 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Alman" on the AH site...
    UasAlmanOnIAH 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "JosephAcquario" on another site...
    UasJosephAcquario 2 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasJosephAcquario 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Ericsson" on the scrubber site...
    UasEricssonOnAS 2 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasEricssonOnAS 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasEricssonOnAS 3 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae



    "FotisGt" on the AZ site...
    UasFotisGtAquazone 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasFotisGtAquazone 2 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasFotisGtAquazone 3 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Colin" on the PNWMAS site...
    UasColinOnPNWMAS 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Accrod" on the PH841 site...
    UasAccrodOnPH84 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Atari" on the MC site...
    UasAtariOnMC 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Kaykay" on the SG site...
    UasKaykayOnSG 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae




    "Jameshopper" on the UR site...
    UasJameshopperOnUR 1 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

    UasJameshopperOnUR 2 - Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

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