Rethinking the scrubber

[snakeblitz33]

What's this? Is he really rethinking using it? Not really. I believe in redundancy, like Acrylic and many others. However, I think my current design is a bit old, outdated, and inefficient. My current reef tank (20g) is not doing as well as it should. The salt creep coming from the screen is too much for my little tank to handle, and too much for me to maintain. The reason why I am writing this is because I am starting to realize there is most definitely a better way.
Thanks to Al, I've been thinking of scrubbers built inside a small aquarium to be more efficient. The water is easy to control and manipulate and it's much easier to control salt creep. Heck, even santamonicas scrubbers are built in an acrylic box.
While a scrubber is pretty awesome at filtration and does many things to improve water quality, I no longer believe it should remain the only form of filtration on a simple saltwater aquarium setup with a low bioload. I also think that scrubbers should be built in a glass or acrylic box to control salt creep and drainage and the drain line should be filtered with a nylon sock to prevent hair algae from spreading.

 

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Originally Posted by SnakeBlitz33 http:///t/389455/rethinking-the-scrubber#post_3442092
What's this? Is he really rethinking using it? Not really. I believe in redundancy, like Acrylic and many others. However, I think my current design is a bit old, outdated, and inefficient. My current reef tank (20g) is not doing as well as it should. The salt creep coming from the screen is too much for my little tank to handle, and too much for me to maintain. The reason why I am writing this is because I am starting to realize there is most definitely a better way.
Thanks to Al, I've been thinking of scrubbers built inside a small aquarium to be more efficient. The water is easy to control and manipulate and it's much easier to control salt creep. Heck, even santamonicas scrubbers are built in an acrylic box.
While a scrubber is pretty awesome at filtration and does many things to improve water quality, I no longer believe it should remain the only form of filtration on a simple saltwater aquarium setup with a low bioload. I also think that scrubbers should be built in a glass or acrylic box to control salt creep and drainage and the drain line should be filtered with a nylon sock to prevent hair algae from spreading.
I haven't looked at Al's design...But I can't help but wonder how you could enclose the scrubber? The heat from the lamps, and then trying to wash it each week would be near impossible without dismantling the whole thing. The mere mention of hair algae spreading causes me to pause. Nonetheless, all the benifits everyone talks about prevents me from writing them off my list completely. So I just keep reading about them.