Mr.Biggs
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Underwaterparadise, Your comments about the DSB concerns me. I think they have a lot of merit. I’m not sure how to go about redesigning the sump area though. I have made provisions for the skimmer algae farm in this layout. This is a problem that I have with my current setup.
I’ll post a diagram of my proposed room layout as this should help with a better understanding of space limits.
Coralfragger101, I used a white silicone adhesive.
If you look close in the second set of pic’s the first has not been glued and #2 & #3 have. It’s a 1 ¼ th by 1 ½ slp. The silicone fills the square hole and has a bead around the fitting on the flat part of the cap. There were two types of caps at the store. The one I pick allowed this fitting to rest inside of the raised hole without modification the other cap I would have had to sand off the threads of the fitting. The other fittings on the cap are drilled and tapped with a ¼†npt, they have Teflon tape on them.
The 1 ½ inch pipe is not glued or attached to the cap it is press fitted during filling of the tubes.
I will show pic’s of this in the future, but I didn’t take any when I was experimenting.
I did some testing of the water treatment system last night.
I’ll have to use more thread tape on the top cap in the future as they leak a little bit.
I will never push 4gal/min as the diagram had shown.
I have a 40gal/hour flow meter in line with the ¼ poly flow tube I was getting 10gal/hour after the beds had settled.
TDS readings on the system after about 10 min. Tap water was about 300ppm, Exiting the (+) cat ion about 800ppm. Exiting the (-) an ion 0. Exiting the (+/-) mixed bed 0.
I haven’t tested any other parameter of the finished water, but have added it to my lime water reservoir for ATO.
Over all I’m satisfied with what I’m seeing. I will be buying new fittings so I can run a 3/8†poly line. Line will be fed from a ½†copper line tapped off the main water line.
I’ll post a diagram of my proposed room layout as this should help with a better understanding of space limits.
Coralfragger101, I used a white silicone adhesive.
If you look close in the second set of pic’s the first has not been glued and #2 & #3 have. It’s a 1 ¼ th by 1 ½ slp. The silicone fills the square hole and has a bead around the fitting on the flat part of the cap. There were two types of caps at the store. The one I pick allowed this fitting to rest inside of the raised hole without modification the other cap I would have had to sand off the threads of the fitting. The other fittings on the cap are drilled and tapped with a ¼†npt, they have Teflon tape on them.
The 1 ½ inch pipe is not glued or attached to the cap it is press fitted during filling of the tubes.
I will show pic’s of this in the future, but I didn’t take any when I was experimenting.
I did some testing of the water treatment system last night.
I’ll have to use more thread tape on the top cap in the future as they leak a little bit.
I will never push 4gal/min as the diagram had shown.
I have a 40gal/hour flow meter in line with the ¼ poly flow tube I was getting 10gal/hour after the beds had settled.
TDS readings on the system after about 10 min. Tap water was about 300ppm, Exiting the (+) cat ion about 800ppm. Exiting the (-) an ion 0. Exiting the (+/-) mixed bed 0.
I haven’t tested any other parameter of the finished water, but have added it to my lime water reservoir for ATO.
Over all I’m satisfied with what I’m seeing. I will be buying new fittings so I can run a 3/8†poly line. Line will be fed from a ½†copper line tapped off the main water line.
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