outy
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So with all the expensive cost with a second chamber for my GEO, I knew I could build a reliable yet easy to service chamber to raise the PH effluent. Most use a kalk reactor as I do, yet it is tied to my ATO and I didn't feel the kalk offset the PH enough.
I started with a 1G cookie jar, and used a 6" drain end piece that has a thread cap with an Oring. Holes were drilled in the cap and the side so that I could epoxy the 2 john guest 1/4" fittings in place.
I used a dremel and sanded the top of the cookie jar so the epoxy would have good bite, I then filed the pvc mating bottom piece so I would get a good bond. Once dry I used epoxy around the inside to build a layer to give extra bonding layers as well as make sure I had a perfectly good waterproof seal.
Water going in the side fitting has 1/4" tubing epoxied in place going to the very bottom of the glass to a john guest T fitting with two 1 inch pieces of tubing to separate the incoming effluent coming to the bottom of the jar. Effluent rises through 5 qt's of media and out the top fitting to the skimmer output line for the most O2 rich water with high flow.
$36 in plumbing parts and high pressure slow hardening epoxy. Filled with fine media.
I started with a 1G cookie jar, and used a 6" drain end piece that has a thread cap with an Oring. Holes were drilled in the cap and the side so that I could epoxy the 2 john guest 1/4" fittings in place.
I used a dremel and sanded the top of the cookie jar so the epoxy would have good bite, I then filed the pvc mating bottom piece so I would get a good bond. Once dry I used epoxy around the inside to build a layer to give extra bonding layers as well as make sure I had a perfectly good waterproof seal.
Water going in the side fitting has 1/4" tubing epoxied in place going to the very bottom of the glass to a john guest T fitting with two 1 inch pieces of tubing to separate the incoming effluent coming to the bottom of the jar. Effluent rises through 5 qt's of media and out the top fitting to the skimmer output line for the most O2 rich water with high flow.
$36 in plumbing parts and high pressure slow hardening epoxy. Filled with fine media.
