Mega-Powerful Nitrate and Phosphate Remover Replaces Skimmer, Refugium, Everything

travelerjp98

travelerjp98

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snakeblitz33

snakeblitz33

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LOl. I'm not interested in purchasing a patent, traveler. The thing is that there are sooo many ways to build a scrubber that anyone with some DIY skills can easily make their own. It's not a lucrative endeavor.
 
santamonica

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"Assessing Evidence of Phase Shifts from Coral to Macroalgal Dominance on Coral Reefs"
Ecological Society of America, June 2009
http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/08-1781.1
"Our database included 3,581 quantitative surveys of 1,851 coral reefs (or sites) performed between 1996 and 2006. Our analysis was based on quantitative surveys that measured the percentage of the substratum covered by living coral and fleshy or calcareous macroalgae between 1 and 15 meters depth."
[A simplified version of Table 1]
Caribbean -- Corals: 20%, Algae: 23%
Florida Keys -- Corals: 8%, Algae: 15%
Indo-Pacific -- Corals: 33%, Algae: 12%
Great Barrier Reef -- Corals: 31%, Algae: 9% "
"Overall, our results indicate that there is no general recent trend (i.e., post-1995) toward macroalgal dominance."
"Macroalgal cover on these 'pristine' reefs is similar to the regional averages for three of our four study regions, suggesting that macroalgal cover may currently be close to the historical baseline across most the world."
"Macroalgal cover and coral cover are widely assumed to be causally linked and inversely related. Yet we found only weak negative relationships between coral and macroalgal cover. Surprisingly, macroalgal cover has not increased appreciably on most of the world’s reefs that have very low coral cover. For example, 379 of the 1,851 reefs had less than 10% coral cover, but macroalgal cover was also low (less than 20%) on nearly two thirds of these reefs. In fact, more than half the benthic cover on reefs in the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Oceans consists of organisms other than hard corals and macroalgae, possibly because other taxa, such as sponges and gorgonians, have been the primary beneficiaries of coral loss."
 
santamonica

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Study shows that corals prefer to grow when they actually touch turf algae
Note: Scrubbers are supposed to grow green hair, which is not covered in this study. But many people still think that scrubbers grow turf, and this study does include the amount of microbes related to turf. Brackets "[ ]" added.
"Microbial to reef scale interactions between the reef-building coral Montastraea annularis and benthic algae", Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, Nov 2011
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/11/15/rspb.2011.2155.short
Page 2, Col 1, (a)
"This study was conducted on the island of Curacao, former Netherlands Antilles"
Page 4, Col 2, (b)...
The [...] coral-associated bacterial communities increased in tissues near [coralline] and [dictyota], but decreased for coral tissue adjacent to [halimeda] or turf algae.
Page 5, Col 1...
We found [anaerobic microbes] present in coral tissue near or at interfaces with three of the four groups of algae: 8.5 percent relative abundance at [coralline] interfaces; 2.2 percent relative abundance near [dictyota] interfaces, 2 percent relative abundance near [halimeda] interfaces; but absent near and at interfaces with turf algae.
Page 5, Col 2, (c)...
Every coral colony observed [on the natural Curacao reef] was interacting with at least one type of alga, with an average of 61 to 80 percent of the coral perimeter involved in any type of algal interaction. Interactions with turf algae were the most abundant, accounting for 32 to 58 percent of the coral edge. [In other words, the corals grew this way, touching the algae, naturally. And more of them grew and reproduced while actually touching turf algae, than grew anywhere else.]
Page 7, Col 1...
This study is the first to identify the types of bacteria present along coral-algal interactions, and we find that bacterial stress response pathways were reduced at coral interfaces with [coralline], [dictyota] and turf algae.
 
santamonica

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The trademark is from the inventor of the dump-bucket ATS design in 1982. "ATS" is his trademark, and is not related to me, or waterfall scrubbers.
I suppose you could disregard the new versions and drawings, and just design your own. Been designing them for 8 months now, and there are over 10 different functionalities, and over 30 different versions, so it might be quicker to try these free designs first. Especially for nano's.
The thing is that there are sooo many ways to build a scrubber that anyone with some DIY skills can easily make their own. It's not a lucrative endeavor.
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You might like the new designs then. Easiest to build yet; much easier than current ones. As for people buying them, however, I'd say 9 out of 10 people who go into a LFS are looking to buy a filter, not build one.
 
2quills

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So what's going on...you're going to give away some drawings of your new design/designs and then charge folk a $5 (DIY) licensing fee to build them and or build them and sell them for you?
If I build some can I call them green magic? Or are you dead set on SM?
 
santamonica

santamonica

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The Green Magic scrubber... I like it :)
Actually the DIY licenses are free. Unless you want to build a lot of them, maybe to re-sell. Then they're $5. But I think most people just want to make a simple filter for themselves. And the new designs are really, really simple. You already have all the parts.
 
santamonica

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New scrubber update: The new design will not require a slot in the pipe. If you have not built one yet, and you have trouble with DIY, then you might wait for the new DIY plans to be posted; there should be no hard-to-cut pieces (like a slot), at least for the very simple versions.
 
2quills

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Patience, gotta get through the several months worth of spamming first :)
All of the new sizing guidelines are already available. Scrubbers now are being built according to feeding requiements as apposed to tank size. Which would indicate that people have been building vastly over sized scrubbers for the last few years.
 
santamonica

santamonica

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Yes the new sizes are posted, but he is asking about the new designs, which are not posted yet. The new designs are mostly space-savers, and cost-savers, and are great for nano's. No sump required, and no slot-cutting needed. You already have all the stuff you need to build it. Here is a posting schedule:
http://algaescrubber.net/forums/showthread.php?1708-Availability-Schedule
 
santamonica

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Need translator for Availability Schedule...
http://algaescrubber.net/forums/showthread.php?1783-Availability-Schedule
I have Chinese finished, but I need other languages too. So if you or someone you know can translate that page into another language and email it to me on a Word 2000 document, let me know how much $ it would cost.
Thanks!
 
spanko

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use google translate. Here is German
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&tl=de&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Falgaescrubber.net%2Fforums%2Fshowthread.php%3F1783-Availability-Schedule&act=url
Italian
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=it&u=http%3A%2F%2Falgaescrubber.net%2Fforums%2Fshowthread.php%3F1783-Availability-Schedule
Japanese
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=ja&u=http%3A%2F%2Falgaescrubber.net%2Fforums%2Fshowthread.php%3F1783-Availability-Schedule
spanish
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=es&u=http%3A%2F%2Falgaescrubber.net%2Fforums%2Fshowthread.php%3F1783-Availability-Schedule
 
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