Psh, this is my skimmer on a daily basis.
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I don't agree your late. I agree that if you take care of the plants then you have a healthy tank. However, this means that your tank husbandry needs to be detailed and consistent. So just doing water changes is half the battle. Add in vacuuming and other steps to ensure your tank is in pristine shape.
Lacktaters yes and in my opinion soon the turf scrubber, depending on the size, might take over and the Chaeto might die because of lack of nutrients. Why? well your turf scrubber is out competing the Chaeto for nutrients as it is exporting it in algae growth.
Actually, the opposite is true. An inefficient scrubber will still outperform the most efficient refugium.scrubber is a nice idea but it has to work efficiently to get results. I always prefer the refugium
They're perfect for small spaces. The simplest are just plastic mesh submerged in a sump chamber with a good light shining on just one side, but if you want to get fancy (and get much more efficient, as well), then waterfall scrubbers are better, especially if lit from both sides.Good info here, following along. Thinking about a ATS since I have a smaller tank and small stand, wouldnt have a lot of room for a sump/fuge mixture
They're perfect for small spaces. The simplest are just plastic mesh submerged in a sump chamber with a good light shining on just one side
A surge flow would be difficult - you'd pretty much be looking at something like Dr. Adey's original dump-bucket design.Do you guys prefer a surge over your scrubber or straight flow?
A PAR38 would be a simple way to light it. You can get cheap ones on eBay (make sure they use 660nm and 450nm), that's about the only thing that knockoff LEDs are ok for. If you made your own out of Luxeon Rebels, you could use around half the LEDs, but it's also more money.