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hahnmeister
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So, does the house just float on the tank?!?! Lol. It might be easier to just make a large pond and make the house float... like venice.
AllenFord_SC
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Very impressive so far, Thanks for sharing Spazz.
hahnmeister
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Cooling the tank with the pool... that would be smart. It would prolly exchange more heat than running the exchanger from the RO/DI line would. Even with a 1000g/day RO/DI, thats still not alot of flow for the heat exchanger to work.
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Now that I think about it... even if the pool was kept at 80, it would require one heck of a heat exchanger (even bigger than the one he posted) to keep the two the same temperature. I suppose it really depends on how much heat he is adding to the reef system, but with such a small temperature difference, it would require an incredible amount of contact time to do much.
come one scott get your arse back to chi-town and get us some more pics!!!!!! I finally made 10 minutes of time to go check this thread out, after you reminding me for quite some time.... now I want more... now!!! 
hehe So will Bill need a place to store the Ferrari while he moves from one house to the next?? I figure it might make the transition easier... Just have him drive it up here and I will take care of it for him 
hehe So will Bill need a place to store the Ferrari while he moves from one house to the next?? I figure it might make the transition easier... Just have him drive it up here and I will take care of it for him 
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well energy just changed his system around a little. he hooked up his rowaphos reactor to the wet neck on big ugly. he said it was blowing out red colored foam for 2 days because of the rowaphos. i think the red stuff that is in the foam is what bothers the corals so much. so by plumbing the rowa reacotr into the skimmer it cleans the water before it goes into the tank and damages the corals. this is the best thing i have heard to do with rowaphos yet. you need a recirculating reacotr to keep the media in suspention. this causes the media to blow around in the water and end up exiting the media chamber. this is pumped into the aquarium and realy bothers the corals. it can even cause RTNing and coral death. he lost a bunch of corals from that stuff. but i feel he is on to something with skimming the water before it gets to the aquarium. so if i were to run a rowa reacotr it would be a fluidized design that is run through the ca reactor line. then into the skimmer to remove any traces of rowa media. the only thing i fear is the rowa has some adverse affects on the cal/alk levels in the water. bill wann was running his fluidized rowa ractor and ended up almost killing his entire tank. the rowa caused the cal to precipatate out in the reacotr body. it was completly white inside the reacotr with calcium. his alk dkh was less than 3 and his calcium was under 200. the ph dropped to around 7.4 things started dying. he almost lost alot of his fish. there was a ton of frags that he lost.
so this is a dangerous media to use. but i feel it can be used with great sucess if you take the necarry precautions. the bigest thing you dont want to do is run it directly into the tank. run it through the skimmer and then maybe an inline carbon filter or 5 micron string filter or something like that. i think you understand where im comming from with this. i will say that energys tank looks great other than the corals that died from this stuff. there is zero hair alage anywhere in the entire tank, and his fish and corals look good.
so this is a dangerous media to use. but i feel it can be used with great sucess if you take the necarry precautions. the bigest thing you dont want to do is run it directly into the tank. run it through the skimmer and then maybe an inline carbon filter or 5 micron string filter or something like that. i think you understand where im comming from with this. i will say that energys tank looks great other than the corals that died from this stuff. there is zero hair alage anywhere in the entire tank, and his fish and corals look good.
onehundred20
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is he rinsing the rowa till the water is clear? that dust is very bad for the corals and none should get in the system...Also its best to acclimate the corals to the lowering of phosphates as well as the rowa, i only uped the amount in the reactor 1tsp per 2 weeks to a month, never had any losses or stress. I could see how a sudden large amount along with uncleaned media would wipe a tank. You might already know this just puting my 2cents in.
btw awsome thread have been following it since it started
btw awsome thread have been following it since it started
spazz
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8424398#post8424398 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by onehundred20
is he rinsing the rowa till the water is clear? that dust is very bad for the corals and none should get in the system...Also its best to acclimate the corals to the lowering of phosphates as well as the rowa, i only uped the amount in the reactor 1tsp per 2 weeks to a month, never had any losses or stress. I could see how a sudden large amount along with uncleaned media would wipe a tank. You might already know this just puting my 2cents in.
btw awsome thread have been following it since it started
ya he was rinsing the media. but it takes alot morethan that to keep it from ending up in the aquarium. i feel dumping the out going water from the rowa reacotr into the skimmer will get rid of any chances of this stuff entering the water in the system. i have see him fill the reacotr up. he rinses the media for a long time. its just never enough. filter pads and thing like that dont help to contain the superfine granuals. they pass right through. that stuff is super light in salt water. it almost floats. that is whay its best to run it into the skimmer first. it will pull out any of the fines that make it through the filter pads. he also intorducedthe media slowly to the system, but that didnt help. his tank has since recovered from the rowaphos and is looking mighty good.
i really dont want to hijack bills thread so can we move this discussion over to the sting ray reef thread. thanks guys.
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o sorry, thought we were talking about bills 1500
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