Algae scrubber

cost me about 5 bucks minus the pump I had an extra!!

do you think a maxi jet is big enough???

Building them is the easy part. Building them large enough to make a difference can be the hard part.

Garrett, looks right, but how are you going to stand yours up in your sump? Let me know how it works for you after it's installed. I'm interested to see the results.

A maxijet should be large enough for a small scrubber. I don't think the hear height is very good on those though so you'll have to take that into consideration in the build.

I have to build a bracket for it I had it all in my head and then poof gone and I forgot to to that so I will get one whiped out and give it a try. Will let you all know how it works.

my sump that I have right now is to small for it to go into it so I'm going to use a bucket till I'm ready to upgrade to my 90 tank with the 55 gal sump

OK I just set mine up I will post every day of progress her is day 1
I'm very excited!!!! I hope it works


tank pictures by imdaring - Photobucket



Spray bar




Added screen



added lights



Water OUT


Water running down the screen


Tank Day1


Tank Day 1 Nasty Brown Algae growing on my sand

you should link the image with the image code so we can all see the progress without going to photobucket... some of us are lazy

You might want to remove the tin foil if there is touching the water at all. it will corrode really fast and could leech metals into the tank. If you want a splash guard, get a larger piece of PVC and cut it in half then glue it or brace it to the top of the scrubber pipe.

wow I never thought of that. I will do that right away Thanks

cdness wrote:You might want to remove the tin foil if there is touching the water at all. it will corrode really fast and could leech metals into the tank. If you want a splash guard, get a larger piece of PVC and cut it in half then glue it or brace it to the top of the scrubber pipe.

I can't for some reason I can not post any pics directly on to any boards like this, somthing is going on with my computer it has been doing this for about 2 month now it drives me nuts!! any site like face book, livingreefs and now I try'd this one I can't event click and paste on to it ?? any ideas?

cdness wrote:you should link the image with the image code so we can all see the progress without going to photobucket... some of us are lazy

Day 2 there is a small amout of algae starting close to the spray bar, but I can not get a good picture I will see if I can get one on day 3

well I found out that I can got to photobucket and copy and paste my pics from there so I will go up and edit my day 1 page

WOW $5.00 you must have had the lights and everythinbg Mine cost me $56.00 minus the pump that I already had

Home_Depot wrote:cost me about 5 bucks minus the pump I had an extra!!

just checked the scrubber again and algae is starting to spred down the screen it has been up and running for about 16 hours now

http://photobucket.com/algaescrubber

DAY 2

just go a email from the Guy that 1st made these and I guess you need to reough up the screen if it is smooth so if you are going to make one make sure you rough it up with somthing