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When it comes to nutrient export, use of algae is one of the most effective and natural ways of going about it. While many of us would love to have a large refugium, sometimes space can make that impossible, so let's look at a couple of other options.
1) Is the Algae Turf Scrubber (ATS) which uses light and oxygenation of some kind to grow GHA on a surface in an enclosed reactor. There are multiple designs from waterfall scrubbers to upflow scrubbers and all kinds of variations. These have been a tried and true method for nutrient export for a while.
2) Is the Chaeto Reactor. These are newer to the industry than ATS, but the principle is (if I am not oversimplifying) a contained refugium inside a reactor. The design is created to grow chaeto efficiently for nutrient export.
Let's have a poll and talk about these.
Which do you prefer? Chaeto Reactor or Algae Turf Scrubber? Why?
1) Is the Algae Turf Scrubber (ATS) which uses light and oxygenation of some kind to grow GHA on a surface in an enclosed reactor. There are multiple designs from waterfall scrubbers to upflow scrubbers and all kinds of variations. These have been a tried and true method for nutrient export for a while.
2) Is the Chaeto Reactor. These are newer to the industry than ATS, but the principle is (if I am not oversimplifying) a contained refugium inside a reactor. The design is created to grow chaeto efficiently for nutrient export.
Let's have a poll and talk about these.
Which do you prefer? Chaeto Reactor or Algae Turf Scrubber? Why?