Algae Turf Scrubber
- Thread starter Dipan00
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I had the opposite experience. When running an ATS my corals grow better. The skimmer pulls out all proteins good and bad. Where the ATS broke down the bad and turned it into food for the corals. Plus my pod population exploded with the ATS that I had no problem keeping fish that wouldn't eat frozen or man made foods.
I used an ATS on the 180 from day one. It took about 2 weeks for the ATS to start getting patches of gha on it. But the tank never went though a full cycle. I had a slight mini cycle but didn't loose a fish or coral. All the rock was kept alive (from my 130 break down) in a few ice chests while I was building the stand. I added about 20 gallons of water from the ice chests and made 200 gallons fresh salt water that went into the system. I did get a massive gha bloom but that was do to using old dried out sand. But the gha was gone in a month.
I will give an update in about a month once I see results good or bad. Here is where I got mine from http://www.santa-monica.cc/if your looking to buy and not build one.
