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I've got a couple ideas for larger scrubbers unfortunately I don't have the ability or means to make them.
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Ok, I'm sold!
I am getting ready to set up my first saltwater tank(55g), and have been researching every aspect of it for about a month now before I even start (my wife thinks I'm obsessed.....OK) I don't want to make any critical mistakes that can easily be avoided with simple research. I am definitely building an ATS under my display tank, but I have one question I haven't found an answer to. I would like to have the overflow from the tank go straight to the scrubber, then cascade to a small refugium (sand,rubble,mangrove), then a bubble trap, then back to the tank. I have drawn up how to fit it all under my DT in one 20g tank, and plan on having no other filters except LR in display. Does anyone see any problems with this? Could I do anything better?
Love the reflectors. That is almost exactly what I was trying to describe earlier. How big is the sump tank?
Sorry if this is off topic but I was talking to a guy today in one of our LPS's who claims to be the #1 marine biologist/marine specialist in the whole state.
Among some of his unusual concepts for his reef setups like using exclusively VHO's with NO metal Halides for all his reef setups, and I must admit Ive never seem such large unusual corals thriving under VHO's only, some were 20+ years old... but that aside he was telling me that he has used Scrubbers over 20 years ago for some of his museum and public displays of all sizes, some that exceeded 38,000 gal's. But will never use them again because they just dont work well over time. I wish I could tell you exactly why, but I would have needed 3 dictionaries and a thesaurus just to translate his ramblings. Something about not being able to control the specific strain of algae and that eventually there was no way to prevent its spread through the whole system...
Anyway, it just seems like every LPS I talk to, and even the supposed "Top world experts" all seem to think scrubbers are not a good idea. Im just not sure why im getting this response :dunno: