Any interest in a scrubber giveaway contest?

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Not sure what I'd do with it. I mean...
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(ignore the aiptasia forest below the SURF2)...
 
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While you're here. IT is recommended to harvest every 7-10 days or so. What if you just took a little bit out every day instead? Would you still risk a scrubber crash? I try to grab some for the foxface every day.
 

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A little each day is fine as long as once a week you lift the unit above the waterline and soak the growth in RO to kill the pods (unless you want the pods going out of the bottom holes to feed the fish.)
 
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A little each day is fine as long as once a week you lift the unit above the waterline and soak the growth in RO to kill the pods (unless you want the pods going out of the bottom holes to feed the fish.)
Are the pods detrimental? I run a wrasse dominant system with a mandarin in it and phyto autodosed 6x/day.
Also, any idea if dosing ChaetoGrow would increase the output?

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I have no room for another scrubber, but I think there's a tiny scrubber that can go in the back of a return chamber, too. Maybe one of the Drops or Slip. I had a HOG back there, but it was so hard to get to, I switched to a surf in the refugium, which is now cryptic + scrubber.
 
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A little each day is fine as long as once a week you lift the unit above the waterline and soak the growth in RO to kill the pods (unless you want the pods going out of the bottom holes to feed the fish.)
Why would you want to kill the pods? To me that is one benifit of an ATS. I almost never take mine put of the water. I just reach in a few and pull matts of algae out. I probably get a pound of damp algae. If i clean all three sheets.
 
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Are the pods detrimental? I run a wrasse dominant system with a mandarin in it and phyto autodosed 6x/day.
Also, any idea if dosing ChaetoGrow would increase the output?

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I have no room for another scrubber, but I think there's a tiny scrubber that can go in the back of a return chamber, too. Maybe one of the Drops or Slip. I had a HOG back there, but it was so hard to get to, I switched to a surf in the refugium, which is now cryptic + scrubber.
Just buy the mesh rough it up an hang it in your overflow. Ad some light eith a in expendive grow light and your all set! I have been running a large one this way for years. Adjust you light duration to match your nutriant export needs. Mine is large enough i can over do it in nutrient export if my light is on too long.
 

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Pods eat the bottom and the growth, and the growth can detach and get away. And, any growth the pods eat is growth you can't remove. Sometimes the pods are so thick the growth cannot get started. RO solves this. So for fastest nutrient removal, pods are not wanted. Just feed the growth to the fish.

Once nutrients are where you want, then growing pods is good if the fish can eat all of them, thus transferring nutrients from the water to fish growth.

ChaetoGrow will probably not help because your growth looks fairly dark already.
 
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What is this? Like a floating chamber where the macro can grow? Does a waterproof light go on top of this? Or is this some type of algae scrubber?
Floating algae scrubber. One of my favorite pieces of equipment. I used to have a "HOG" (hang on glass) scrubber, but the only place it fit was in the back of the sump return chamber which was really hard to reach, so I switched to the floating one in the middle refugium chamber.
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Yes, sign me up. I like the self contained enclosed design. Just curious, since the SM system is enclosed but relies an air bubbles, i assume there is some creep. How much is my question?
 
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Yes, sign me up. I like the self contained enclosed design. Just curious, since the SM system is enclosed but relies an air bubbles, i assume there is some creep. How much is my question?
So far with the SURF line, I don't think there is any salt creep, except for what I drip on top of the unit. For the HOG, I kept the unit very near the sirface so that bubbles coming out weren't coming out into the water so much.
 

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