Algae Scrubber Disaster

[MarkoD]

Is the height of the bubbles in your skimmer effected when you turn off the scrubber?

[Doug]

Back about 10yrs ago when I ran my turf scrubber, {oh ya we did that despite what, nevermind, }. Anyways, I always scraped my 240sq. in. screen in the fishroom sink. But at times I did have some get in the aquarium for various reasons and, the odd time, I fed some of the algae to my tangs. That would be the good looking pieces and not the slimy stuff.

Although I had some alk. problems back then with my 225g, I never had a problem with fish loss. I dont recall any large difference in my tanks after scraping the screen. Sometime when I slacked in upkeep it had a ton of algae on it and I would remove it right to the screen without problems.

Others I imagine remove a lot of algae from their refugiums without problems to. Just a weird thing to figure out.

[PoonTang]

I would bet its oxygen related. Ammonia just cant form that fast and high nitrates would affect your corals alot sooner than your fish.

[Jaws]

Well I don't have any corals at the moment so I don't think I'll have any inclination about that. Seems weird that oxygen would be affected though if a tank has overflows where water falls into the sump plus all the surface interruption I have from having lots of flow. Unless I'm not understanding something.

[Jaws]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

Is the height of the bubbles in your skimmer effected when you turn off the scrubber?

I've never checked this but I don't believe so. I'll check later.

Thanks for all your input guys. I'm still baffled by the whole thing. Is it possible I'm taking too long to clean the screen?

[reefwars]

have you posted tis on algaescrubber.net or on RC in the scrubber forumn to see what they have to say about it , there may be similiar cases??