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Unread 03/15/2018, 11:52 PM   #1
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POLL: How Do You Deliver Water to your Algae Scrubber

How Do You Deliver Water to your Algae Scrubber

Dedicated water pump in the sump?

or with the overflow to your sump?


I use the overflow to my sump.
I use a DC pump so I can vary the flow through the scrubber.
The range of flows I use vary between 30 to 47 g/hour per inch of screen width.
This gives me a tank turnover between 4 to 6 times per hour.


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Unread 03/16/2018, 08:06 AM   #2
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All of your return water goes over your scrubber?

You also left out a loop off of the return pump that recirculates back over the scrubber. This is how I used to do mine when I ran one.


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Unread 03/16/2018, 07:12 PM   #3
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Are you using a Bean Animal overflow? If so, do you have any pictures of the plumbing?

I want to do this setup for my new tank.


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Unread 03/17/2018, 05:31 PM   #4
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All of your return water goes over your scrubber?
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Unread 03/17/2018, 05:33 PM   #5
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Are you using a Bean Animal overflow? .
No, just one pipe from weir to scrubber into sump


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Unread 03/20/2018, 12:33 AM   #6
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I put my scrubber in my over flow. Simple and works great.


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Unread 03/20/2018, 01:29 AM   #7
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I put my scrubber in my over flow. Simple and works great.
Do you mean fed water from your overflow,,, or actually >> in << your overflow housing?


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Unread 03/20/2018, 09:45 AM   #8
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It is actually in my overflow.


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Unread 03/20/2018, 09:34 PM   #9
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It is actually in my overflow.
interesting.

any photos that you'd like to share?


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Unread 03/26/2018, 03:58 PM   #10
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interesting.

any photos that you'd like to share?
Here is a photo of my ATS and the algae that I harvested from it just before taking the first photo. There are 3 sheets of mesh held in place by the white PVC clips. It is lot with a inexpensive LED grow light from Amazon a few hours in the early morning.


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Unread 03/27/2018, 05:56 PM   #11
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Thanks for posting the photos


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Unread 03/28/2018, 01:05 PM   #12
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No problem I hope they were clear enough. I have to say I am very glad all that GHA is not growing in my display.


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I use a separate pump that's in my skimmer compartment. It feeds, my reactors, ATS, frag tank, and pods bucket.

I figure if I shut down my display for maintenance I can keep that pump rolling and feeding the other parts of my systems.


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My RAIN2 is fed from my return pump.


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Unread 04/05/2018, 08:41 AM   #15
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I have triple siphons on my main overflow - one feeds the ATS, another a remote refugium and the third just dumps into the sump. Works great, is 'free' and doesn't steal flow from my main return.


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I have triple siphons on my main overflow - one feeds the ATS, another a remote refugium and the third just dumps into the sump. Works great, is 'free' and doesn't steal flow from my main return.
can you adjust the flow rate to your ATS at all this way?


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I use a separate pump that's in my skimmer compartment. It feeds, my reactors, ATS, frag tank, and pods bucket.

I figure if I shut down my display for maintenance I can keep that pump rolling and feeding the other parts of my systems.
that must be a big pump?


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Unread 04/05/2018, 07:34 PM   #18
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My RAIN2 is fed from my return pump.
how many months has your scrubber been in operation?


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can you adjust the flow rate to your ATS at all this way?
Each of the three siphons have an independent gate valve, so yes I can adjust the flow through the ATS to get to 35 gallons per hour per inch of screen.


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Each of the three siphons have an independent gate valve, so yes I can adjust the flow through the ATS to get to 35 gallons per hour per inch of screen.
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Unread 04/06/2018, 07:06 PM   #21
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Return pump manifold and it drains into my separate 75g fuge as its feed water.


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