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[fishdoc11]

Nice! Thanks for posting those tonym10

 

[imbuggin]

forget it thanks

forget it thanks

forget my previous request for quotes. I bought an H&S instead. They were happy to get back to me and answer all my questions. Great customer service there & I am happy to pay to know it will be there. My skimmer will be here in 3 days.

George, business must be very good since you don't have the time to get back to someone after a few emails and a call. I was looking to and did buy a high end skimmer for over $1000+. I would have thought it was worth your time. Guess not. I will be moving on. Glad business is so great.

 

[extinguishfire]

Where do you drip your effluent from cacl reactor into your sump? I have a three section sump. 1. tank drain and skimmer 2. refugium 3. return in that order
Pics of my sump.
http://www.melevsreef.com/acrylics/sumps/k/sump_model_k.html

 

[cward]

I have mine going into the more turbulent side where the tank drains.

 

[bkelley02]

Looking for help from the Calcium experts.

Looking for help from the Calcium experts.

Anyone have a problem with TOO much calcium in the water? That's what I"m facing and am open to suggestions on how to correct it. I am using the schuran media and have the ph in the chamber between 6.4-6.5 . Alk is a little high too at 13.2 but I lowered the bubble count and raised the ph hoping that would help. When I measure the calcium, it's over 500.

 

[bond007069]

Calcium and dKH are directly related

when one goes up the other goes up, when supplied by a Calcium Reactor.

If your Calcium AND alk is too high.

RAISE your pH in the reactor, your in a sense overdosing.

You raise you pH by decreasing your bubble count or increasing your effulent to the tank. HTH's

 

[bkelley02]

Thanks. That's actually what I am doing but I feel better that someone else has confirmed I am taking the right steps. I'm just surprised at the speed these both climbed. This schuran media sure works better then the A.R.M. stuff I had before. I couldn't get my calcium above 350 with the A.R.M.

 

[RGibson]

dkelley02 where did you buy the schuran media?

 

[merlock116]

i know customaquatic has it but it's out of stock currently. they also have a generic version.

aquaticeco carries it.

premium aquatic has a generic version also i believe. i'm not 100% sure.

 

[bkelley02]

It may be the imitation brand, but it looks the same. I bought it from Premium Aquatics.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6927874#post6927874 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RGibson
dkelley02 where did you buy the schuran media?

 

[bkelley02]

I was originally going to order from aquaticeco but when I went to check out, they were going to charge me an additional $30 international service fee or something like that. No explanation for where that was coming from until you went to pay, and there was this additional charge.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6927940#post6927940 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by merlock116
i know customaquatic has it but it's out of stock currently. they also have a generic version.

aquaticeco carries it.

premium aquatic has a generic version also I believe. I'm not 100% sure.

 

[RGibson]

Thank you for the help,it seams that it would be hard to tell if one was getting the real thing or the generic as it is sold by the pound.

 

[extinguishfire]

I am having a club member(our very own president for our club Melev) build me a reactor drip chamber. What hole size to I need to hold the reactor output valve? Do I need the valve or can I just use the output hose? I need to know what size so he knows how big of a hole to drill. The reactor I am getting is the 612.

 

[tonym10]

I built a holder for my drip line and PH probe just like that one.
I just got my clacium reactor back on line, it has been offline for 2 weeks now while I waited for plumbing parts to fix a leak in it.
Parts would have been here over a week ago if it wernt for my postman putting the box in a bush so I never saw it.
My calcium dropped from 460 to 400 over this time period with just Kalk reactor and no calcium reactor.

 

[extinguishfire]

so what size hole did you make for the drip line?

 

[MdM31]

I bought the GEN X shcuran knock off media. Its basically the same thing. You can get it at PA.

-Mike

 

[tonym10]

My skimmer has stopped skimming today for the first time after emptying the skimmer cup and cleaning it. I cleaned it like I always do but it is now 12 hours later and it has not built up a foam head yet. The only thing I did differant was I applied silicon O-ring lubricant to the O ring on the union. Ussually when I clean the skimmer cup it builds foam in less then an hour.
Anyone have a similar experience.

 

[Travis]

Silicone can kill your foam production for several days. When using silicone on o-rings, only use just enough to make the o-ring look wet. Any more than that and it gets into the water and kills foam production.

 

[tonym10]

Thanks Travis. I guess I wil be more carefull next time with the silicone, and wait it out for now.

 

[tonym10]

A little over 24 hours later and its back to foaming nicely.