Switching to scrubber from reactor

Jlyons · Jan 25, 2019

Just posted in the Macro forum but then thought it might have been the wrong place so figured I'd ask here. Just added a scrubber to my RSR 250 that I have been running a Chaeto Reactor on. If I keep the reactor running I am assuming that it would take forever to break in or maybe not at all. Should I stop running the reactor now that the scrubber is ready for break in and deal with the excess nutrients for a few weeks? Thank you in advance for any assistance.

Flippers4pups · Jan 26, 2019

Jlyons said:
Just posted in the Macro forum but then thought it might have been the wrong place so figured I'd ask here. Just added a scrubber to my RSR 250 that I have been running a Chaeto Reactor on. If I keep the reactor running I am assuming that it would take forever to break in or maybe not at all. Should I stop running the reactor now that the scrubber is ready for break in and deal with the excess nutrients for a few weeks? Thank you in advance for any assistance.

If there's enough to nutrients to grow chaetomorpha, I'd run both till you start to see algae growth in the scrubber and then take the reactor off line.

lion king · Jan 27, 2019

1st, why the switch, I actually went the other way. If you have some algae you can smear on the scrubber screen it will pretty much take right off.

Jlyons · Jan 29, 2019

I was going to buy another reactor for my Reefer 170 but decided that I could use the current one on it and have heard really good things about scrubbers so wanted to see for myself how it goes. Its only been running a few days and its already showing signs of growth so thinking about pulling the reactor and moving it this weekend. It just has brown growth on the screen now but I've been struggling to get the water to cascade down the screen of the CW-50 evenly.