Algae Scrubber only??

I had a 60 cube with the L2 scrubber and it worked amazingly well.

 

after running one of the L2 scrubbers on a 75 I would say you should use a skimmer as well. My skimmer pulls out a lot and the scrubber works hard too. However, I have never been happy with the results from skimmers on small tanks, so you make an interesting concept.

I think you would have to have a special plumbing arrangement as you couldn't just stick the scrubber on top of your tank. But let us know how it works out if you try it.

 

No ph issues. Ran scrubber in the nighttime hours

 

I never ran into any issues and did very few water changes. I have since moved on to a bigger setup and have a l4 scrubber on it. I am still battling on that setup. Trying to do two completely different setups with one common sump. Aggressive fish in one reef in another. Unfortunately not receiving the results I anticipated. Probably going to focus on reef tank and switch over the aggressive as much as I love them fish.

 

I've almost been running just a scrubber. I have an L2 and have my skimmer dialed in to make very dry skimmate. I get about a quarter inch of coffee tint sludge a day in the cup. I have thick green hair algae I remove from the screen every 10-14 days.

 

I've been running a scrubber only on my 110 for4 or 5 years.
No problems with, it is quieter than a skimmer and no fear of skimmer cup overflowing onto my floor.

 

These pics are from last month that I sent to fish brain 2 days growth and four days growth. I feed heavy l4 scrubber

 

Roman, do you have any visible algae growth in the display tank?

 

My lights are on for 12 hours. My setup is a little complicated. I have two 93 gallon cubes plumbed to a common sump. I have aggressive fish in one tank and I have reef fish and corals in the other. My reef side does real well with no algae in the display. I do have some algae and cyano on the aggressive side . I attribute that to the more feeding and more wastes that are produced by them fish.

 

I have been running an ATS for around 6 years now. 220 bare bottom with 75 refugium and 20 frag tank. Lps, sps and zoas. I run a water fall style ats with leds. Light cycle for the ats is 18 on 6 off. I would just buy the L2 from Bud if I were starting over again. Its waaay smaller than mine and much more efficient.

 

My light cycle is only 6 hours on 18 off on my L4 scrubber

 

Roman, is the shortened light cycle because the L4 is so efficient?

 

That would be a question for bud @Turbo's Aquatics to answer. That is all I ever ran my L2 scrubber at also.

 

What size of the reactors do you have? If it's the small and you want to part with one I'd buy it and run it with purigen and my scrubber and take my skimmer offline.

 

That's ok. I want to get one but had forgotten they existed until I read your post. I will also add that my L2 runs lights on for 5 hours on 19 hours off. It is on from about 5am-10am and shuts off about 30 minutes after my tank lights come on each day. The screen fills up to the point of needing cleaned about every 14 days. I think I am going to increase the photo-period of the scrubber to around 8 hours because I have been feeding more and am getting a little hair algae in the tank.