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Success Updates:

 

Coolhandgoose on the scrubber site: "Since I installed the new light two weeks ago my nitrates have gone from 20 to 0. The cyano in my display is now starting to disappear."

 

Desert_Fishy on the SWF site: "I started my 75g reef 5 months ago (2nd venture w/SW) and decided to start up with a scrubber and no skimmer due to this thread. All I have are powerheads, lights, scrubber and a heater. My water readings are perfect, corals are really flourishing, fish are happy and I spend 10 minutes a week cleaning the algae off the scrubber - although that is becoming a bigger and bigger job. My only problem now is that copepods, feather dusters and some other small pink bug-like creatures that live on the glass are multiplying out of control. I have feather dusters everywhere!"

 

Toddo on the MFK site: "This is my 125 freshwater tank with medium bio load. I have an XP3 with Biomax/mech pads, and this scrubber as the only filtration now. Its been 12 days with just the scrubber for nitrate control. Nitrates and ammonia are still at zero. No water changes. This is significant, as my well water is 35-40ppm Nitrates. It grows enough algae to need weekly cleaning now. I had a specific freshwater requirement for low to no nitrates, and I have met that, using my scrubber. It was properly designed and built using info provided, and is now functioning as expected."

 

DeathWish302 on the RC site: "The turf scrubber slowly drove out the cyano, and has been amazingly processing EVERYTHING I have thrown at the tank in regards to food."

 

AlgaeNator on the scrubber site: "I have been running a version of ATS for about 2 months, and have been skimmerless for 4 weeks now, and am very happy with the ATS concept and performance so for. I have been running my prototype Victory Scrump for about 3 weeks now, to prove the concept and it's working VERY well. My corals are healthier than EVER, Two of MY RIC's that were dying going clear, are now SPLITTING after removing the skimmer. Im amazed actually at how well my other softies are doing too. In my case, I might not be typical though, as I think i was OVERSKIMMING my tank with my larger skimmers i build and sell, removing the good stuff with the bad"

 

Manuelink on the scrubber site [from spanish]: "with algal over 4 months without water changes, no skimmer, no additives anything, just food and my corals growing like additives. the coralline algae and is infested by all sides, that speaks of good levels of alk and calcium. is a wonder this invention"

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nanoreefnate

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Success Updates:

 

Coolhandgoose on the scrubber site: "Since I installed the new light two weeks ago my nitrates have gone from 20 to 0. The cyano in my display is now starting to disappear."

 

Desert_Fishy on the SWF site: "I started my 75g reef 5 months ago (2nd venture w/SW) and decided to start up with a scrubber and no skimmer due to this thread. All I have are powerheads, lights, scrubber and a heater. My water readings are perfect, corals are really flourishing, fish are happy and I spend 10 minutes a week cleaning the algae off the scrubber - although that is becoming a bigger and bigger job. My only problem now is that copepods, feather dusters and some other small pink bug-like creatures that live on the glass are multiplying out of control. I have feather dusters everywhere!"

 

Toddo on the MFK site: "This is my 125 freshwater tank with medium bio load. I have an XP3 with Biomax/mech pads, and this scrubber as the only filtration now. Its been 12 days with just the scrubber for nitrate control. Nitrates and ammonia are still at zero. No water changes. This is significant, as my well water is 35-40ppm Nitrates. It grows enough algae to need weekly cleaning now. I had a specific freshwater requirement for low to no nitrates, and I have met that, using my scrubber. It was properly designed and built using info provided, and is now functioning as expected."

 

DeathWish302 on the RC site: "The turf scrubber slowly drove out the cyano, and has been amazingly processing EVERYTHING I have thrown at the tank in regards to food."

 

AlgaeNator on the scrubber site: "I have been running a version of ATS for about 2 months, and have been skimmerless for 4 weeks now, and am very happy with the ATS concept and performance so for. I have been running my prototype Victory Scrump for about 3 weeks now, to prove the concept and it's working VERY well. My corals are healthier than EVER, Two of MY RIC's that were dying going clear, are now SPLITTING after removing the skimmer. Im amazed actually at how well my other softies are doing too. In my case, I might not be typical though, as I think i was OVERSKIMMING my tank with my larger skimmers i build and sell, removing the good stuff with the bad"

 

Manuelink on the scrubber site [from spanish]: "with algal over 4 months without water changes, no skimmer, no additives anything, just food and my corals growing like additives. the coralline algae and is infested by all sides, that speaks of good levels of alk and calcium. is a wonder this invention"

First of all, RC is renown for its misinformation.

secondly, pics?

third, sorry for bumping this.

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SantaMonica

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The trick of skimmer popularity

 

In my reading of what is going on lately with the discussions of skimmer vs. skimmerless tanks, I'm seeing the same fallacy repeated over and over and over, usually by the most experienced reefers who have been around the longest: "Because everyone uses skimmers, a skimmer must be required or else they wouldn't use one." Or, "Every Tank-Of-The-Month has a skimmer, therefore a skimmer is required to give you the best chance of a TOTM."

 

It's all completely irrelevant. I can't believe how many people fall for this line of reasoning. This trick is taught in Debate class in high school; It's called "Appeal to Poplulariy", otherwise known at Argumentum ad populum...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

 

On a side note, realize that many people are paid to promote skimmers. Millions of dollars are put into the marketing and promotion of skimmers, and some of that money goes into the pockets of the people who are posting reasons to have skimmers. Also, there must be a hundred companies who make skimmers, and all of them have promotion budgets. The job of promotion is to "get the word out". How many Algae Scrubber companies have promotion budgets? Zero, because there are no companies. Scrubbers are DIY. This is why the "popular thinking" is to use a skimmer... because skimmers are all anyone reads about. Promotion is my day job, and this is exactly how it works.

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Are you implying that skimmer companies are paying NR members to use and promote their products?

 

I don't see wtf this has to do with your POS "algae remover system".

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Scott Riemer

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This guy just sucks. CLOSE DOWN THIS THREAD(said in Ronald Reagan voice)

I wish I could, but he's not breaking the forum rules, just the rules of common sense.

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nemmy

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The trick of skimmer popularity....

 

I bought a skimmer because i saw all the nasty crap they bring out of the water, not because of promotion. Its not like i see adds on every site i visit saying "your reef will die if you dont buy this".

 

As per the "appeal to popularity", how is this going to make me "admired, sought after, or accepted"? Are girls going to start banging down my door because i have "the biggest skimmer on the block"?

 

As for skimmers themselves being popular its because they work, end of story.

If someone wants to buy a protein skimmer, let them. If someone wants to build a turf scrubber, let them.

You dont need to come bash people saying they are mindless zombies who just do what everyone else says or does. Skimmers work, people buy them thats all there is to it.

 

If your turf scrubber works great for you I'm happy, and I'm also happy that you promoting them has helped peoples tanks. But so have protein skimmers, and you dont need to get on people for their choice in organics reduction.

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Apoptosis

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+1 on skimmers working. And working well for that matter. I prefer a billion bubbles removing the organics than a nasty plastic sheet with holes in it going nom nom nom nom. Just MHO.

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HecticDialectics

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The trick of skimmer popularity

 

blah blah blah

 

It's all completely irrelevant. I can't believe how many people fall for this line of reasoning. This trick is taught in Debate class in high school; It's called "Appeal to Poplulariy", otherwise known at Argumentum ad populum...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

 

On a side note, realize that many people are paid to promote skimmers. Millions of dollars are put into the marketing and promotion of skimmers, and some of that money goes into the pockets of the people who are posting reasons to have skimmers. blah blah blah

 

:lol:

 

Whatever you say, Sarah Palin. Do micro-small algae remover systems also come with a free tinfoil hat?

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Seiryoku

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I'm convinced.

 

I'm going to throw my 9002 in the trash and burn down my house.

 

I'll raise you! How about I throw away both of my 9002's and by an Odyssea light fixture to burn down my house?!

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Mr. Fosi

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Watching and refraining from comment.

 

Mr. Monica doesn't have anything new to add and continues to fail at making sense, so there isn't much to say that hasn't already been said.

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Marteen

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I'm convinced.

 

I'm going to throw my 9002 in the trash and burn down my house.

 

 

I'll raise you! How about I throw away both of my 9002's and by an Odyssea light fixture to burn down my house?!

 

I'll save you both the cash and burn down your houses free of charge! :o

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