Was wondering how to incorporate the vertical scrubber design into my sump as I don't have much space so kept delaying this project. But after seeing johntanjm's simple solution with the scrubber lying on its side, I've decided to copy the same idea and save myself a lot of headache Thanks John for the simple idea
I bought this plastic chopping board. By itself the surface is manufactured rough, so I don't need to sandpaper it. I'm too lazy to seed it with algae so its starting from scratch. I would like to see how long the algae starts to get a hold on it. The only disadvantage is that I'm not able to use both sides of the board to maximise algae growth.
I removed my filter box and replaced my wool filters with the mesh sock. The water from the overflow falls through the filter sock and directly onto the chopping board. Of course the water coverage isn't great, but lets see how it goes. I'm getting around 3/4 of the board covered by flowing water. The board rests on one of the glass dividers (higher end) and the other side rests on some LR