Golly, I' d never heard of algae scrubbers before I watched this video, with 15 or so years in aquaristics. Maybe Sweden is behind in such matters, or maybe I don't read enough magazines or books about the hobby. Anyway, I'm impressed by the simple, effective design. You do us all a great service by sharing your DIY ideas. Will now go have a look at this book you e selling!

Love your passion for the hobby! I'm making this tonight and definitely subscribing! Thanks so much for posting such helpful videos. This hobby is expensive and being able to DIY is perfect! Thanks Joey!!

Thanks! This is the best advice about aquariums I've gotten to date. I'll be building one this week. Count me, Subscribed!

You really are king of DIY. Can't wait to see the progression of the new Tank/office.

Love how clean the design is, great work joey

I really appreciate these videos Joey.

absolutely fabulous! many thanks … recently found your channel and your diy filter just blew me away . all the diy videos are clear and easy to follow your step by step instructions.

awesome videos! I just binge watched a ton of them.. you do a great job making the demo's and its awesome how you always do it as cheap as possible. thanks!

Joey you are the bomb. Not just for this but for all of your DIYs. I sure hope you don't plan on quitting these videos, lol im sure you won't anytime soon :) keep it up man!

This is around the time i subscribed to the channel. Fun looking back at these years later

I just want to thank you for all the new videos

You are truly the King of DIY in the Fish Keeping business buddy.

Love the videos. I've recently purchased a 55 gallon freshwater aquarium and I'm loving it. Keep up the good work.

Wow! That was great information! Thank you so much Joey!

Wow .. can't believe I only just found this super idea. Will watch the Super Charged version next. Thanx Joey xox

Great video and I like how you explained the benefits of the algae scrubber so well!

Awesome vid Joey. Could one of these be put in an aquaclear 70 HOB? I was going to do a diy Aquaclear refugium but I like this idea just can't have that ugly box in my 37 gal display

Hey man, u are such a legend. I love your channel and i would love to see the updates on how your tanks are doing. In two weeks i am starting to build my own DIY aquarium (as per your series on how to build an acrylic aquarium and stand), similar size as yours but glass. Acrylic is really expensive in my country. Thanks for all the help and VIDS, keep them coming!

Man U smart lil dude I like watching some of your videos very well explained thank you for the inspiration

I read 20-25 pages on reef central on ATS. Came here and see that this is by far the best way to go without messing with my plumbing. Thanks!

Awesome. So much easier than any other DIY algae scrubber I have seen. I have some ideas for this. Video to come when I get around to it.

Joe has done it again very nice.

would this system be beneficial while running a drip system? I'm in the planning stages of a big tank similar to your large tank. different dimensions but same amount of gallons. I'm planning a filter a lot like your fluidized bed only have the second stage (heater barrel) a glass tank apposed to a second barrel. would it be a good idea to do an 8"x16" algae scrubber in the heater tank? also, I was reading somewhere that using hot water with the drip system and dropping some heaters is cheaper monthly then running cold water with more heaters. what do you think?

Nice . Informative Joey best wishes on your book launch

That's funny. @1:47 Joey says, "Each basket is $1, so they were $2 each." Great idea and very nice and cheap DIY project for the fish tank.

Thanks for the quick response! That makes sense. I'll definitely still be picking it up then!

Excellent vid... I wonder if its possible to integrate this into your above the tank sump idea?

Your next upload will be your 100th. Congrats, bud. Thanks for all your help.

hi joey, can i put this in the k1 compartment of my sump

Great video. Got to try this one, thanks Joey!

Thanks! As always great information.

Hi! thanks for the video. how can i add this to a sump? if i already grow plants in my sump i need this scrubber? Thanks!

Thank u joey u r awesome . What im thinking of doing in my aquaryum is diguise it eith pomess stona and growing plants . And i wanted to ask u or anyone who knows if it b a good idea to put an led inside a pvc canester system with a mesh and make it an inline type deal ?

Great video I will have to try this one out

Thanks! This is so helpful!

I know this is a 9 year old vidio but I am attempting a different style algae scrubber on the out flow of my HOB refugium with plastic grid. Your last vidio motivated me

How do you combat the Salt Creep on a SW system??

Thanks for a great video Joey, keep them coming :)

Algae is the base of the food chain and at the base of my breeding operation. - When the water in my unused backyard pool turned into Pea Soup I added an 8¢ Goldfish/Comet. A year later the fishes scales looked like goldleaf. Only then did I realize how the "goldfish" got its name. In a 20,000 gallon green water pond, I had Discus that survived temps from 95F to 58F and ph swings from 5.4 to 9.0. My prettiest plant: a lawn of brilliant green hair algae on the backside of a 29 gallon tank

Awesome vid Joey thanks! What is the best flow to produce algae the fastest? Slow or fast? Thanks again!

ohh yeah...i was waiting for this vid since you put it on facebook...thanx bro

Great video as always!

Great video, I have a request... maybe you've done it already but can you give me an idea on how to make a diy gfo reactor. Pls tnx

Joey, again thanks for the copy of the book.. Now I got a question.. it's off the topic.. my heater just broke.. I had a Fluval E series heater and the digital screen is hardly to read hence difficult to set the temperature... I need your help.. what heater do you recommend? Eheim Jager? or should I give it a second try with Fluval? or any other brands? I have a 55 gallon tank.. planning of upgrading to a 125g. Thanks!!!!

Wow this is an amazing idea!

Thanks for this great vid Joey! I think this may be useful to cultivate of algae to feed a culture of brine shrimp.

Thanks for the vid. Just made one hopefully will be all good

can I use one of those lamps to grow plants?

Hey bud, ive never built aquarium myself, and i wont for a long time (no private space) but i found your channel pretty cool. I subscribed to you and ur doing great work. One thing id be really curious to see is your BEST aquarium that you keep at home and you are the most proud of. Thanks!

Very cool idea. Making my own.

awesome idea man

Hey, thinking of starting my first tank, low tech planted... Do think that this would be useful in my tank... It's a 20 long. Thank you and great work on your videos!

Hi from Bulgaria. Thank you for your videos, they are very helpful. What do you think about the same setup without the air pump? Just putting the blue box where the water is flowing fast from the canister filter? Is it going to work or the idea is the bubbles, not the water flow.

What wattage and light spectrum for cfl bulb? Thanks for info!

New subscriber! Like that you have done this for inside your tank. I'm going to give this a go once I've installed my juwel protein skimmer. I've had a problem with Cyanobacteria so I'm hoping this & the skimmer might help. Thanks. I'll post a video when I've out both in.

LOVE LOVE LOVEEE... the spinning drill bit

I love your vids. and can you tell me why the sides of my tank is sometimes slimy is it normal if yes tell me how to solve the problem it would be great help.

hi Joey...I have my close to the window, lot of sun light go in, if I close the blind so the room wil get too dark. is this algae scrubber would help?

@The king of DIY Can this be placed in the sump?

So I have micro little bubbles all over my substrate and java moss and other plants there are so many my moss has floated to the top. What are these little clear/white micro bubbles? What can I do?

Nice and informative vid as always. As I have built and used my own, this is the cheapest and most interesting scrubber design I have ever seen. Very clever in concept and space also. Is it possible Joey for you to think of and do a video on a recirculating media reactor? That is a fairly new concept(so to speak) to most people, but it works extremly well with pellets on salt(I run them) and from what I hear on fresh systems also.

Great DIY :) Very informative. I am thinking about adding that plastic mesh in one of the back chambers of my Nanocube. The flow of the backchamber is already bottom to top, so dunno if I'll need the airstone? I also have a light that I can use. Thanks

Sir many neon tetra can I kept in a 40 gallon tank of size 36*12*24 inches length breath height respectively

Cool idea. I bought one n it works great. After watching ur vid I building one for my other tank.

Would this work in a marine set up! I know they use algae scrubbers as well

Joey you are the best. Thanks.

OK This is awesome! though this isn't the prettiest ways of doing it, who cares if it's places in a sump. Great job! I like this a lot!

Wow very cool idea. Will definitely add one of these to my next non planted tank. I had a 55 with a mating pair of jaquar cichlids and left the algae in the tank do to the benefits of the algae. Wish I would have thought of this.. Very cool stuff.

I made a quick (and ugly) test version of this last month, and it works great. Will be making a more presentable one this week. Great idea!

Great video. I use fertilizers in my tank. Won't algae absorve these great nutrients as well?

You're a genius bro.. thanks

Thanks helped me out again

can you place this in your refugium or in the over flow where the filter sock and skimmer are at?

Could this work with a net as the mesh a clear cup as the casing and a window as the light source?

Thank you, I shall give it a try.

Thanks for the vid bro!

Hi Joey I need some advice man my tank my trickle filter my pvc overflow everything I done through watching your videos I live in South Africa we don't have the varieties of stuff that you guys have bro but I made due I am just struggling with one thing man my water would be clear one moment than cloudy the next what can I do buddy.

hi joey like your video on algae scrubber but was wondering what size would I need for a 180 gallon reef tank ????? my nitrates are around 10 to 20 on red see test kit . it is a new setup with dry rock and dry sand... would you steer me in the right dirction thank you

Just made one too. this is a Great idea indeed

Great video +

where could i get a food grade sheet for the scrubber? its hard to find them ime

Is it possible to buy a physical copy of your book?

Hi, I'm going to build one of these and wondered if you could use a cheap RGB LED strip light from eBay to light it and grow the algae? Like the ones you can buy to go inside your tank. They're normally available in either white, white and blue or RGB colours and I thought the RGB version would be best. They're so much cheaper than the LED's you use in you upgraded algae scrubber.

where can i find led's for the scrubber?

joey do you have any idea for hair algae? will this work with hair algae? thx man keep up the good work!

Which one will works better a bio logical filtration or algae scrubbers?

Top notch video :)

Hey Joey i dont know how to contact you, but i really need some advice, i bought a 75 Gallon tank with no lid, it also has no center brace on top so i cant purchase the glass tops as they sit on the center brace. i have the plastic rim on top, but no center brace. any suggestions on a DIY lid that will look good? i was praying you had a video i could follow, but no luck. im hoping to start up my tank next week, so i really hope you can give me some advice on a lid for the tank!

I try to work with my algae rather than against it. I think it's a great thing and this video just proves that. I think it also looks nice if you cultivate it. I like to leave algae on the back of my aquarium so that it covers up the cords and stuff, and it looks really nice on driftwood. Also if you can get the green hair algae to grow on the back and set a powerhead to blow against it, it makes a really pretty effect of the undulating algae blowing in the water current.

"hi everybody joey here again and welcome back"

Hey you should make a video on how to modify hob filters that would be great awsome videos helped me alot thanks

ok so i made it just as you have it on the vid but the algae end up growing on the aquarium glass rather than the mesh inside any idea why and how i can remedy this issue?

If I have a Canister, Protein Skimmer do need this?

will this make it so i don't need to run gfo anymore? generally speaking of course.

Just set mine up lastnight, how long before I start to see some algae growth?

Great idea and video. Thanks bruv. Later.

Would having an algae scrubber effect my macro algae I havein my refug??

Brilliant!!!

nice idea!!!

What grit was your sand paper?