Algae Scrubber Basics

Well... Unless your rocks have been acting as nutrient sponges and are now releasing a steady flow of waste into the tank... Or you have dead or decaying matter (fish, coral, sponges, bacteria) that is also releasing waste product...

Food is a good source, but a scrubber can grow out of all sources of decay.
 
I've actually read the entire basic & advanced ATS threads and know it is a lot to expect others to do but it is nauseating to see how many times SM & Floyd are asked the same questions, not to mention asked the same questions on the same page.

It was worth the read to see how things have come, gone and come back again but I bet Floyd & SM would be able to make even further advances if they weren't having to habitually answer entry level questions. After everything I've read however I can't remeber what is current, what was fad and what is down right wrong. When I try to read back through I could be off by 50-100 pages from where I thought I read something.

Is there a page or two somewhere that you guys could update as to what is the latest consensus? For the life of me I can't find where I read about using mortar on the screen. Do you need mortar if the screen was already roughed up? I've thought about asking but I know its already been answered yet the thought of rereading through a few hundred pages is quite daunting considering how much new stuff there is to learn.

I've wished one of you would write a book like Dr Ron Shimek's DSB, but then it would need revisions and I'd be right back to having to reread and decipher the obsolete from the current.

Thank you both for all the work, advancements and generocity.
 
jalisco said:
I've actually read the entire basic & advanced ATS threads and know it is a lot to expect others to do but it is nauseating to see ....ne of you would write a book like Dr Ron Shimek's DSB, but then it would need revisions and I'd be right back to having to reread and decipher the obsolete from the current.

Thank you both for all the work, advancements and generocity.
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I feel similarly. How about generating a google document where we could all work together. Similar to the algae scrubber homepage but in a more condensed form and in a slightly more group approach. There is no need for the experts to waste time to write the document. All they would need is to review the written stuff that we came up with. Anyone interested? I am about to put together my first upflow algae scrubber and was sourcing all the info anyway. So I could easily do it in a google doc that I open to anyone. Any interest in something like that? Or maybe it already exists?
 
A sticky?

That's actually what this was but it wasn't closed up... Same with the advanced sticky.

So now we need a sticky for the stickies.. Lock it up and only allow the experts to edit?

:)
 
karimwassef said:
A sticky?

That's actually what this was but it wasn't closed up... Same with the advanced sticky.

So now we need a sticky for the stickies.. Lock it up and only allow the experts to edit?

:)
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That is exactly what I was hoping for but thought once it was locked the experts couldn't edit.
 
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ozzman said:
Floyd has all the relevant posts listed in his sig

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That doesn't seem to prevent people from asking the same handful of questions over and over. I believe a "Read This First" ATS locked sticky editable by the experts would help keep the other two threads moving in a beneficial direction. Any of us could relay the experts exact opinions and findings by directing others to the locked sticky.
 
jalisco said:
That doesn't seem to prevent people from asking the same handful of questions over and over. I believe a "Read This First" ATS locked sticky editable by the experts would help keep the other two threads moving in a beneficial direction. Any of us could relay the experts exact opinions and findings by directing others to the locked sticky.
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I have loosely glanced over most of the posts in this thread for years and I agree that it is hard keep track of what someone should do if starting a new scrubber. I don't think that I am inclined to read through hundreds of pages of the same things being asked over and over again, only be guilty of doing the same thing if I need to find something out.

I can't comment on the other methods like a Google page, only because I don't know enough about that type of thing but I have made a suggestion before that goes something like this.

If the technical staff would allow a onetime only edit to just the first post in the Algae Scrubber Basics thread, all this could be accomplished. If they allowed someone like Floyd to clean up that post and add a link that pointed to an external text file, I think that all this could be accomplished. Then someone like Floydd could edit that file whenever he wanted to. He or she could update it whenever that person wanted to without bothering the moderators.

This editable file could reflect the latest and greatest information, guidelines, frequently asked question, links to detailed plans, pictorial examples, desisting opinions and appropriate articles. That file could contain all this, distilled down and massaged to fit the needs of typical beginner that is considering an ATS.
 
I could make a Zoho site...those are free. Good idea, let me see what I can do. Then I can keep that updated, and it doesn't have an issue related with being product or alternate-forum related.
 
Actually if you click my Blog Entries below my avatar, it's there also. And I can update/edit those. But that (nor sigs) don't help the Tapatalk folks, and I guarantee you no one using a phone goes to this site via browser because VB3.8 is 100% worthless on mobile
 
Well it's not about mobile or not, it's about not knowing where to look if you've never read this thread. A month ago I had no idea Turbo had all the information I needed until I spent a few hours reading both threads.


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Well if I do the zoho site (which I think I will) then I would probably repeat the post once per page / every 50-100 posts or something...
 
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