Some hobbyists use an algae scrubber to filter the water naturally.

Chaetomorpha can, alternatively, be replaced by an algae scrubber.

For this reason, some aquarium hobbyists have begun using Chaetomorpha or an algae scrubber instead.

This has occurred in the form of algae scrubbers, and seaweed cultivators, which are now available for domestic use worldwide.

Natural aquarium and koi ponds also exist, but use algae scrubbers for their filtration.

The algae that grow in the algae scrubber can then be removed, or fed back to the livestock.

Seaweed cultivators are an offshoot of algae scrubbers, which were developed to filter aquariums.

Dr. Adey built several versions of algae scrubbers for aquariums at the Smithsonian.

Algae scrubbers, using bubbling upflow or vertical waterfall versions, are now also being used to filter aquariums and ponds.

Housed in a 3000 gallon system, one of our systems is filtered by man made biological filtration, and the other from living rock and algae scrubbers.

In almost every case, these homemade algae scrubbers reduced the nutrients to very low levels, and this reduced or eliminated all nuisance algae problems.

An algae scrubber filters water by moving water rapidly over a rough, highly illuminated surface, which causes algae to start growing in large amounts.

An algae scrubber allows algae to grow, but the algae grow inside the filter instead of in the aquarium or pond.

This is fortunate because green hair algae is the exact type of algae that grows automatically in a properly constructed algae scrubber.

Generally, and except for specific continuous-filtering or continuous-cultivating versions, algae scrubbers require the algae to be removed ("harvested") periodically from the scrubber.

Nuisance algae in the aquarium or pond are not to be confused with the desired algae in the algae scrubber filter itself.

Nutrient levels and water quality in ponds can be controlled through natural process such as algal growth, or through artificial filtration, such as an algae scrubber.

This version, which is basically the exact opposite of the waterfall, allows the algae scrubber to be placed underwater in the aquarium, sump or pond, instead of above it.

With added lighting and flow, algae would grow in this area, and the algae would consume nutrients from the water just as Dr. Adey's algae scrubber units did.

Types of water filters media filters, screen filters, disk filters, slow sand filter beds, rapid sand filters, cloth filters, and biological filters such as algae scrubbers.

He also was granted the first U.S. patent for a dumping-bucket algae scrubber, which described a complex dumping device that poured water onto a horizontal surface, thus simulating waves in a reef environment.

Reefs and lakes are naturally filtered this way (the seaweed being consumed by fish and invertebrates), and this filtering process is duplicated in man-made seaweed filters such as algae scrubbers.

Algae scrubbers have allowed saltwater and freshwater aquarium and pond hobbyists the ability to operate their tanks the way that oceans and lakes operate: using natural filtration in the form of primary production.

Aquariums and ponds can be filtered using algae, which absorb nutrients from the water in a device called an algae scrubber, also known as an algae turf scrubber (A T S) .

An algae scrubber is a water filtering device (not to be confused with a scrubber pad used to clean glass) which uses light to grow algae; in this process, undesirable chemicals are removed from the water.