What are the drawbacks to scrubbers?
You have to build them; they require weekly cleaning; they give off a lot of light (unless you enclose them); and they cause lots of cooling/evaporation (unless you enclose them). Any other drawback that you may have heard about is either old information (previous to July 2008), or the scrubber in question was built incorrectly or is being run incorrectly.
You have to build them; they require weekly cleaning; they give off a lot of light (unless you enclose them); and they cause lots of cooling/evaporation (unless you enclose them). Any other drawback that you may have heard about is either old information (previous to July 2008), or the scrubber in question was built incorrectly or is being run incorrectly, which does happen in DIY designs. Q: I’ve heard that these “waterfall” type of scrubbers are not real “ATS” scrubbers. A: “Scrubbers” and “ATS scrubbers” are anything that move water over a lit surface, for the purpose of growing algae. What the “ATS” confusion is related to, is that one of the original patented scrubber designs in the 1980’s used a dumping design that dumps water onto a horizontal screen, and the owner of this patent also owns the trademark “ATS” name (as well as other scrubber designs). So, people confuse the word “ATS” with that particular dumping design, only because it was the most popular one at that time. But
