Ats

[Flatlander]

Hi caevan; Yep, you were pretty close. Its now growing rapidly. I will try giving some to my baby sailfin. I think its soon time to shut down the Euroreef and see if the scrubber alone can handle the tank.

 

[Flatlander]

Hey guys, getting some type of "snot" algae growing over the turf. I scraped it twice now and it comes back.

Still running 24/7 as the turf is not vey established yet. Would this be part of the normal cycle?

 

[NaCl]

im also trying to establish my screen, my tank has a bunch
of pods on the sand etc, the other day i saw one in the ats,
does anyone have any secrets to keeping pods from the
ats and how much of a problem are they, will they hinder
algae growth?
Many, many thanks!!

 

[LiquidShaneo]

NaCl, read the thread. We discussed pods, etc, where they come from, how to get rid of them, what they do to the screen, etc. FWIW, you can't keep them from populating the screen. The only thing you can do is give your screen a freshwater dip every time you scrape it in order to remove the bulk of them.

Shane
liquid on #reefs, #reefcentral

 

[GreatBarrier52]

I thought that you want the Pods in your system. Or is it that you want the pods in your sand bed and not your ATS?

 

[Flatlander]

I gave mine a shot from the fresh water hose when scraping it. I dont see any in the scrubber, but more life in the sumps sandbed. I commented on the skimmerless thread in the main forum about all the life I am finding in my skimmer cup now.

GB, the pods are fine in the tank but eat the algae on the scrubber screen, that one is trying to cultivate for nutrient removal.

Eric, if you read this, I have a question. Did you try, or whats your opinion on, when its time to scrape, what would be the result of giving the screen a shake into the tank. Wondering if many of the pods would then fall in? Or perhaps to much loose algae would fall?

 

[gwrulzmylife]

we need to get this thread going again.

Anyone who has one please post pics.

I'm trying to DIY one but need more info.

Thanks in advance guys!

 

[reef-man_d-man]

I am looking into a toilet valve ATS I'll keep ya posted

 

[EricHugo]

Contact Morgan Lidster for more information....'www.inlandaquatics.com

 

[reef-man_d-man]

i talked with him a few months back, and am gonna again in a few weeks

 

[Flatlander]

After reading this thread again, as we are talking about scrubbing on a couple of different boards, I was noticing dump cycle times.

Does anyone know what the makers before or now, , suggested for a proper cycle? I see some doing as much as 4 or 5 times/minute. Perhaps my once or twice per, was not enough water pass to handle my larger tanks and loads.

 

[EricHugo]

I don't think that aspect was properly thought out, or even decided on for any real reason. My opinion is that previous versions were way too infrequent and small and I think much larger and more frequent dumps would be much better.

 

[Flatlander]

Thanks Eric.
I cant increase the size of my dump, but can certainly increase the frequency. Perhaps instead of a Hagen 800 feed pump, I may experiment with a larger outside pump.

 

[caevan]

My scrubber was set to dump every 8 to 10 sec. The whole thing was driven by the water coming from the tank overflow.

 

[Flatlander]

Hi Caevan,
Long time. Still running the scrubber in your sump? I was thinking about 6 times per minute. Although my scrubber benefits the tank with the dump, I like the idea of running it over my sump, fed by one of the overflows.

 

[Cnidae]

I'm going to be resetting up a ATS. I have the smaller unit but I'm going to design one into the sump. I want to use T5 lighting instead of the PC's. Anyone got any suggestions for the T5's?

Thanks,
Damien

 

[Fredfish]

Eric. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on why a much larger dump is needed.

I thouight that Addey spent a lot of time determining the water velocity required to break the boundry layer around the algae strands to maximize nutrient and waste exchange.

I don't really know anything about plant/algae physiology, but I can't see that more frequent dumps would do any harm.

Fred.

 

[EricHugo]

I'm talking about effects in the tank. It might be ideal for the scrubber tray, but is pretty low inside the tank. Maybe if the sump were desigened to hold more water around the screen, it would/could kill two birds with one stone (not sure why I just used that expression...I hate it!)

 

[Fredfish]

Ahh. Makes sense now. It would be easy enough to make the tray deeper so you have more water per dump.

Fred.

 

[reef-man_d-man]

well you could also make it deeper and skinnier so that the same amout was dumped