DIY Algae Scrubber

[cyberCoder]

Hi

I made a DIY Algae Scrubber with a "Pink" Glow light from China about 30 Watt, and it's been a couple months that the scrubber is pulling this type of dark algae. I have only two fishes and 20+ Corals. The Phosphate is typically around 0.01 to 0.1 range and Nitrate around 1-5...Is the Algae Scrubber doing the right thing?

On the other side, there are still lots of brown / dark green algae in the tank plus Cyano outbreak happening which I haven't used the chemical to cure it yet.

Tank is one year old.

 

[Big G]

Bump

 

[ArmyReefer]

Bump

The scrubber might actually be working to good. If all of your nutrients get stripped cyano bacteria like that could be a side effect

 

[FishGeist]

10 fish, 6 corals, 75 gallon tank, feed lightly reef nutrition dry, mysis cube once a week, I have to scrape my SantaMonica Rain2 with Gem x4 every 2 (4 if i push it) days a full mat, tank 2.5 years old.

 

[20 gallon nano]

I made a algae scrubber with all the plumbing internal. It’s on a IM 20 gallon