Lowest cost and easiest way to eliminate green hair, bubble, turf and slime algae

Some more UAS upflow algae scrubber (tm) examples...

"Joey2525" on the CMF site...











"Alexleblanc" on the scrubber site...











"Disney" on the PH841 site...






"Cdm2012" on the scrubber site...









"Bicyclebill" on the PNWMAS site









"Mbonus" on the scrubber site...





"UasIslakkie" on the UR site...







"Alman" on the AH site...





"JosephAcquario" on another site...







"Ericsson" on the scrubber site...








"FotisGt" on the AZ site...









"Colin" on the PNWMAS site...





"Accrod" on the PH841 site...





"Atari" on the MC site...





"Kaykay" on the SG site...





"Jameshopper" on the UR site...

 

Air Pump Recommendations for UAS® upflow algae scrubbers®. Having bought and tried all of these, here are the best ones:


Flow (highest to lowest):

Coralife Super Luft... TONS of flow for multiple outlets or multiple scrubbers
Tetra Whisper 300... High flow if both outlets are combined into one
JW Aquatic Fusion 700... High flow if both outlets are combined into one
Tetra Whisper 150... Good flow for one outlet
Coralife Luft (regular)... Good flow for one outlet


Noise (most to least):

Coralife Super Luft... (Loud; vibrates)
Coralife Luft (regular)... (Vibrates)
JW Aquatic Fusion 700... Slight vibration
Tetra Whisper 300... Silent
Tetra Whisper 150... Silent


Size: (big to small):

Tetra Whisper 300... Large
JW Aquatic Fusion 700... Medium
Coralife Super Luft... Medium
Tetra Whisper 150... Medium
Coralife Luft (regular)... Small


Cost (most to least):

Coralife Super Luft
Coralife Luft (regular)
Tetra Whisper 300
Tetra Whisper 150
JW Aquatic Fusion 700

Overall winner for a single UAS scrubber used at home: JW Aquatic Fusion 700 (also is the only one with adjustable flow)
Overall winner for multiple UAS scrubbers if noise if ok: Coralife Super Luft

 

1982: The original dump-bucket style algae scrubber (works, but very hard to build, install, operate, and harvest)

2008: Waterfall style algae scrubber (works good but hard to build and install; must be removed to harvest)

2011: Upflow style scrubber (work goods, easier to build and install on the glass; must be removed to harvest)

2013: ??? (work great, all 3D growth, easy to build, and instant in-place harvesting without needing to remove anything or turn anything off).

 

If anyone has been waiting to build a waterfall or upflow scrubber, we

will soon be posting plans of the new floating surface scrubber. It

floats at the top and does not need a waterfall, and it does not shine

through the glass.

 

Interesting!

 

Let's build!

 

SantaMonica you continue to impress me with your 'outside the box' engineering.
Would you mind starting a new thread with this pic and some of your impressions about it? I would like to highlight it on the homepage. Thanks in advance!

matt

 

Thanks

Ok here it is...

http://www.3reef.com/forums/algae/how-build-floating-surface-algae-scrubber-147110.html

 

Thank you sir!