Ghetto Rig

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That is an AWESOME idea!!! I bet it is easy to change/clean. you don't have to take the whole thing apart.

 

[NEReef]

That is an AWESOME idea!!! I bet it is easy to change/clean. you don't have to take the whole thing apart.

It is very user friendly. Mostly only have to clean the top two filter floss pad trays. I also ran a tray with phosban and a tray with charcoal. Lots of flexibility and very easy to swap things out.

 

[hoffy02]

It is very user friendly. Mostly only have to clean the top two filter floss pad trays. I also ran a tray with phosban and a tray with charcoal. Lots of flexibility and very easy to swap things out.

dude you are like Mcguyver!!! (sp?)

 

[Overgreen]

That might be ghetto but its super clean looking and it works just fine. Good job NEReef!

 

[Beaun]

The inch of head in the water bottle flows into the sump and that's about it. No siphon to bring the water to the sump, just gravity.

How does it start back up after the power is restored?

 

[ibnozn]

How does it start back up after the power is restored?

Looks like there is a fitting at the top of the intake tube U. You could use an
Aqualifter pump to suck the air out from there and restart the siphon.

 

[ibnozn]

Here's the (very French) passive kalk doser that I use on my ATO. It's a Perrier bottle, rigid airline tubing is epoxied into the top and bottom holes. It just needs a jiggle every so often to prevent any channeling of water through the kalk, athough that's mostly prevented by the kalk powder settling and concentrating in the neck. You can see a nice little cloud of kalk form as the water flows up through it. It performs great, maybe even well enough to say it's ghetto fabulous.

 

[rpjaws74]

Nereef very nice I wish I had that ingenuity

 

[zeusfc]

Here's the (very French) passive kalk doser that I use on my ATO. It's a Perrier bottle, rigid airline tubing is epoxied into the top and bottom holes. It just needs a jiggle every so often to prevent any channeling of water through the kalk, athough that's mostly prevented by the kalk powder settling and concentrating in the neck. You can see a nice little cloud of kalk form as the water flows up through it. It performs great, maybe even well enough to say it's ghetto fabulous.

if you cable-tied an electric toothbrush (or ahem...wink!) to that, it would vibrate itself and not need shaking manually. work out a way to rig it up to the mains, and you could easily have a true ghetto-winner!

 

[Pepsi2008]

heres my lighting system and my ghetto rigged carbon reactor out of a plastic coffee can lol

and then a picture of my tank

 

[aquaph8]

Im pretty sure none of you guys will ever be stranded on the side of the road. Well as long as there is duct tape handy. Great stuff, I love this thread.

 

[Pepsi2008]

The best part of waking up is folgers in your cup!!

 

[punchedup]

How does it start back up after the power is restored?

When the power is restored, the pump in the sump starts pumping water into the display tank. The siphon never breaks in the overflow. All is well.

I tripped my ground fault when my MH ballast went the other day. I came home, cycled the switch and everything resumed.

 

[sobes94]

I love this thread I need to snap a pic of my old biocube 8g MH fixture.

 

[reeftanknewbie]

this thread is great....I am trying to plan a Ghetto rig project to post but only need to build a ATO right now...I will try to put some thought into a Ghetto fab project.

 

[reeftanknewbie]

if you cable-tied an electric toothbrush (or ahem...wink!) to that, it would vibrate itself and not need shaking manually. work out a way to rig it up to the mains, and you could easily have a true ghetto-winner!

Or go bigtime Ghetto and get a one gallon container and install it into a paint shaker run on a house timer....I like to call that the GrandGhetto DIY project....

 

[zeusfc]

I've thought about that toothbrush idea again... old mains-electric razor with one side of the blade broken off, will do that same vibration, and is wired up for AC already; just switch the razor on, and plug into a mains timer.

be honest RTN... have you really got an industrial paint shaker knocking around?

 

[shikhyung]

Here is my ghetto doser.....

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How do you control the exact amount of the dosing?

 

[jakeh24]

How do you control the exact amount of the dosing?

you use timers and the drip head wich lets you get say 60 drips a min?

 

[coketech]

The garden irrigation drippers are pretty good at keeping a stable rated drip-rate under a range of pressures until they eventually clog up with mineral deposits. Good ghettoing!