creative uses for seaclone?

[Perureef]

anyone have any ideas how i could modify my old seaclone into either a calicum, alkalinity, or phosphate reactor? i would use the search option but i keep getting denied. any ideas and instructions for any type of mod would be greatly appreciated. thanks

 

[Douglas LEHMAN]

Hello
I filled mine with SD and use it to hold the door to my fish room open!

 

[Perureef]

lol that works! any other ideas?

 

[BradL.]

The pump is the only thing that works on a seaclone. Trash the rest and start saving for a real skimmer.

 

[boxfishpooalot]

Turn the acrylic body into a phosphate reactor, calcium reactor, kalk stirrer, carbon reactor, or fluidized sand filter! thats what I would do anyway.

But building your own stuff can be frustrating. I would just sell it to be safe. You dont want a useless tube lying around?

 

[coralnut99]

The easiest one would seem to be a phosphate/carbon reactor. But they can be had new for as cheap as $30. So it may or may not be worth the work to you. Another thought would be to turn the acrylic tube into a fish trap. The prices on those things are silly if you ask me. Shouldn't take much to glue on the trap door to the opening.

 

[Jiggz]

i wonder how hard would it be to turn into a phosphate reactor? woudnt u just have to put the media inside of it and run it with the airline totally shut so that there is no microbubbles forming inside the skimmer?

 

[coralnut99]

It's not hard, but you'd have to fabricate a few pieces I think like the bottom diffuer plate, and then you need to buy some sponges to keep the media in the chamber.

 

[Perureef]

actually that sounds pretty doable (if thats a word). how would i hold the top sponge in place?

 

[coralnut99]

pretty much the same way the phosban reactor does. Another difusser plate at the top with the sponge underneath it.
The plates basically "collar" the dowdraft tube. The sponges are a very tight fit, and need to be basically pushed into place. Very porous material, much like the sponge blocks that come with whisper outside filters.