--75g Barebottom/Starboard Reef Project--
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Travis
10 and over club
I guess the only way you can tell if it is ok or not to run a GFO in your tank is to try it.
Anyone know if you can slide those vortex pumps along the glass while they are running? If you could, it would be awesome for BB setups. Mount one of these along the bottom back of the tank. Make sure you leave enough room behind the rocks so that you can slide the pump all the way across the back. Then you just slide the slowly across the bottom back every few days to blow any settled detritus into suspension.
Anyone know if you can slide those vortex pumps along the glass while they are running? If you could, it would be awesome for BB setups. Mount one of these along the bottom back of the tank. Make sure you leave enough room behind the rocks so that you can slide the pump all the way across the back. Then you just slide the slowly across the bottom back every few days to blow any settled detritus into suspension.
elephen
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No they said you cannot move them, it'll wear out the bearings quickly. You must first turn it off then move it.
I think 2-3 of these would be great, place them along the sides/bottom of the tank so they just completely eat up all the detrius and get it to your overflow.
I'm having my buddy check as to when he can get ahold of 3 of these for me, he is a pretty large distributor of IC products so hopefully it won't be real long!!
I think 2-3 of these would be great, place them along the sides/bottom of the tank so they just completely eat up all the detrius and get it to your overflow.
I'm having my buddy check as to when he can get ahold of 3 of these for me, he is a pretty large distributor of IC products so hopefully it won't be real long!!
arconom
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Lets just say I had a gut feeling Travis. Ever since you sent it back to me I have was dying to check the impeller since I have seen other photos of ERs impellers.
I contacted ER and they will be handling it.
TRAVIS IF I KNEW THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BELIEVE ME!!!!!!
You should see the post I wrote ready for the possibility of ER not handling it properly BUT I got a reply so I will save the post
ER Beta Pump Impeller.
BTW Travis thank you for taking your time with the packaging
I contacted ER and they will be handling it.
TRAVIS IF I KNEW THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BELIEVE ME!!!!!!
You should see the post I wrote ready for the possibility of ER not handling it properly
BUT I got a reply so I will save the postER Beta Pump Impeller.
BTW Travis thank you for taking your time with the packaging
Lunchbucket
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arconom - yeah i guess the beta test impellers weren't that good as w/ the SS that was in some of the pumps. they are and will be fixing that i guess
Lunchbucket
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Travis
10 and over club
Yeah, I was aware of that with their beta pumps. Same with the metal plate in the back of the housing. I noticed that your beta pump had glue around the housing to keep water from getting in. Did you do that yourself or did it come that way? I remember reading a thread where some people complained to PCI about the rust and PCI wrote it off as being "metal ions" that were pulled to the outside of the metal. What a crock! Oh well, I'm sure ER will fix it. After playing with that beta pump I can say they are a very nice pump for the application. Thanks again for letting me use that skimmer. It took me forever to get the thing packed back up.:lol: I just wanted to pack it with as much care as you put into it when sending it to me.
arconom
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Does anyone mix there Phosban/Rowa with there GAC?
I'm still scared to use my ROwa on my tank
Ok say I use maybe 1 or 2 teaspoons won't it just rise to the top if I don't have enough in it? If I have to little how will I be able to adjust my flow if I can't see it "perculate"
Also what do you guys recommend GPH?
I'm still scared to use my ROwa on my tank
Ok say I use maybe 1 or 2 teaspoons won't it just rise to the top if I don't have enough in it? If I have to little how will I be able to adjust my flow if I can't see it "perculate"
Also what do you guys recommend GPH?
arconom
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Tagareef I talked to Fliger thanks
Well today was the day.
After speaking/PM with Fliger I learned he also has a very low nutrient tank. He also gets 0 on the phosphates using his Deltec test kit.
He mixes his Carbon with Rowa. I will do that in a few weeks. Small changes.
So I first added the 2 teaspoons/1 tablespoon to the reactor.
Then I filled a few buckets up with Tap water. I ran the ROWA clean until those "fines" all came out. BTW I now know how fine, fines are The first 1/4 of a IO bucket was rust colored.
Then I changed the return end into a clean bucket to see how much more I had to go to run all the fines out of it.
Then the next 1/4 of next clean bucket was clear but after dumping the bucket I saw Ultra Fine,Fines.
Ok it was clean now.
Then I thought to myself Umm, What now I have this reactor filled with DIRTY tap water. I didn't want that in my tank I figured I would just run 1 full bucket of premade SW. But it worked out better. When I turned off the feed pump to the TLF reactor it made a siphon and about half of the tap water went back into the bucket.
So with 1/2 of the TLF reactor filled with TAP water I ran it with about a full bucket of SW.
I know most would say screw it " who cares that there is Tap water in the reactor" but not me!!!!! I want Clean water in there before it goes on my tank.
That was a big story out of nothing, but hey it was excitment
Also they should have 2 sponges on top. Remind me to buy another guys.
Well today was the day.
After speaking/PM with Fliger I learned he also has a very low nutrient tank. He also gets 0 on the phosphates using his Deltec test kit.
He mixes his Carbon with Rowa. I will do that in a few weeks. Small changes.
So I first added the 2 teaspoons/1 tablespoon to the reactor.
Then I filled a few buckets up with Tap water. I ran the ROWA clean until those "fines" all came out. BTW I now know how fine, fines are
The first 1/4 of a IO bucket was rust colored. Then I changed the return end into a clean bucket to see how much more I had to go to run all the fines out of it.
Then the next 1/4 of next clean bucket was clear but after dumping the bucket I saw Ultra Fine,Fines.
Ok it was clean now.
Then I thought to myself Umm, What now I have this reactor filled with DIRTY tap water. I didn't want that in my tank
I figured I would just run 1 full bucket of premade SW. But it worked out better. When I turned off the feed pump to the TLF reactor it made a siphon and about half of the tap water went back into the bucket.So with 1/2 of the TLF reactor filled with TAP water I ran it with about a full bucket of SW.
I know most would say screw it " who cares that there is Tap water in the reactor" but not me!!!!! I want Clean water in there before it goes on my tank.
That was a big story out of nothing, but hey it was excitment
Also they should have 2 sponges on top. Remind me to buy another guys.
arconom
Premium Member
Ok part 2 of a not a big deal story..
I run 1/2 cup of carbon in a bag in my sump. This isn't the best way to run carbon IMO.
In the past after using to much carbon in my old setup it caused my water to become so clear the tops of some corals burned. So I know not to make that mistake this time.
So why didn't I run carbon in the TLF reactor with the ROWA this time around?
Because I know the Carbon in a TLF reactor would work 10 times better then my old bag in the sump. I don't want to much change considering I want to see how my tank reacts to the ROWA. I want to be able to isolate a problem instead of guessing what caused it if there is a problem.
I run 1/2 cup of carbon in a bag in my sump. This isn't the best way to run carbon IMO.
In the past after using to much carbon in my old setup it caused my water to become so clear the tops of some corals burned. So I know not to make that mistake this time.
So why didn't I run carbon in the TLF reactor with the ROWA this time around?
Because I know the Carbon in a TLF reactor would work 10 times better then my old bag in the sump. I don't want to much change considering I want to see how my tank reacts to the ROWA. I want to be able to isolate a problem instead of guessing what caused it if there is a problem.
Travis
10 and over club
IMO, you cannot run "too much" carbon. The most likely reason for bleaching and carbon usuage to be correlated is if carbon had not been run for a while allowing the water to yellow, then if you add too much carbon at once it can clear the water up really fast making the light penetration a lot more intense and not giving the corals enough time to acclimate to the increased intensity.
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