Scrubber after vibrant ??

b4tn · Feb 25, 2019

Looking for suggestions. I just finished 4 months of vibrant dosing. It has killed off my bubble algae yay!!!!! But my scrubber is near dead now. There was a tiny bit of gha on it but not much. My nutrients are non detectable right now. My plan is to run my skimmer but always overflowing in the sump and run my scrubber. Should I wait to turn the lights back on the scrubber? Or should I start off at 9 o’clock on the light dial and 8 hours of light?

Mattman1977 · Feb 25, 2019

I also ran about 4 months of vibrant, before I realized it I had a Dino outbreak so maybe leave your skimmer off and feed a little heavier to bring your nutrients up some. Took me almost a month to get rid of the Dino. What a pain but the good news I haven’t seen bubble algae in a very long time now.

Matt

Turbo's Aquatics · Feb 25, 2019

b4tn said:
Looking for suggestions. I just finished 4 months of vibrant dosing. It has killed off my bubble algae yay!!!!! But my scrubber is near dead now. There was a tiny bit of gha on it but not much. My nutrients are non detectable right now. My plan is to run my skimmer but always overflowing in the sump and run my scrubber. Should I wait to turn the lights back on the scrubber? Or should I start off at 9 o’clock on the light dial and 8 hours of light?

Treat it like starting over, so set the lights at about the 50% intensity level for 9 hours/day, you might go through a few initial stages but if you left it running the whole time (I'm guessing you did?) then there will likely be some microscopic algae left embedded in the screen, so it might pop back pretty quickly - keep us posted, I'm interested to hear how it returns

rawbomb · Mar 23, 2020

Any update on how it did?

Rick Krejci · Mar 28, 2020

I started an L2 scrubber 6 weeks ago after Vibrant and it seeded and started fine. I had stopped dosing vibrant for a few weeks before adding the scrubber, but it took off well and now after a month and a half (and 2 months after stopping vibrant) I'm getting great growth on the screen and very little in the display.